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Teddy Roosevelt, received from Northrup, King & Co., Minneapolis. The vines are 

 tall and spindling, with dense, light colored foliage. The pods are scattering, long, 

 pointed at both ends; somewhat like Gradus, but more slender. The peas are of good 

 quality. 



Thomas Laxton, from Vick and also from Currie, is said to be a cross between Gradus 

 and Extra Early. As compared with Gradus, the vines are shorter, but are about 

 equally productive. The peas are quite sweet and the proportion of shelled peas to pods 

 is larger than with Gradus. It promises to be a valuable early, wrinkled pea. 



Mammoth Gray-Seeded Sugar, received from Thorburn, produced the longest pods of 

 any variety grown. While tender, they are eaten the same as string beans. The vines 

 were very strong, tall growers, and were heavily loaded with pods, which yielded a 

 good per cent of shelled peas. These are large, tender and rich in flavor. 



Market Garden, llosford, is one of the best varieties grown, for market or home use. 

 In productiveness and quality it has few superiors. It is largely grown for canning 

 purposes. 



Master, from Johnson & Stokes, Philadelphia, is one of the most promising new sorts. 

 The vines are of medium height, strong, upright, branching, and densely covered with 

 dark-green foliage. The pods are numerous, canoe-shaped and well filled with peas of 

 superior quality. 



Matchless Wonder is a strong grower and very productive of small, short pods, which 

 yield a high per cent of shelled peas. These are small and somewhat lacking in quality. 



Melting Sugar is another sweet, edible-podded variety. The pods are very numerous, 

 but they are rough and irregular. The peas are large, tender and sweet, and the vines 

 are quite tall and rank in growth. 



Midsummer, received from John A. Salzer, La Crosse, Wis., has thrifty and productive 

 vines. The pods are long, quite pointed at the stem end and blunt at the apex, well- 

 filled with large, tender and sweet peas. The season, productiveness and quality make 

 it a promising variety. 



Monarch, received from the Livingston Seed Co., Columbus, 0., has strong-growing 

 vines, but lacks in productiveness. The pods are shaped much like those of Stratagem, 

 but the peas are inferior in quality. 



Prolific Early Market, received from the same firm, has medium sized vines which 

 are very productive. The pods are short, but well filled with peas of low quality. It 

 was one of the earliest to mature and this with its productiveness makes it a valuable 

 early sort, especially for the market gardener. 



Prolific Giant, from W. W. Rawson, Boston, has the largest and coarsest vines of any 

 variety grown. The pods are canoe-shaped, tender, sweet and edible when small, but 

 they mildewed badly and their irregular, wrinkled appearance destroyed their attract- 

 iveness. The peas were large, tender and sweet, but few in proportion to the bulk of the 

 pods. Of no particular value. 



Reliance was received from W. Atlee Burpee, and has small, rather spindling vines; 

 foliage light green; pods short and well-filled, but lacking in numbers. The peas are of 

 good quality. 



Scorcher, from Salzer, is a quick growing and very productive variety. The period of 

 edible maturity is quite short, and the peas soon become hard and dry. Their productive- 

 ness and earliness make it a valuable market variety. 



Stratagem is one of the standard, main-crop varieties. It is a vigorous and pro- 

 ductive plant and the peas are of good quality. 



Surprise, from Burpee, and New Surprise, from Vaughan, proved to be nearly if not 

 quite identical. New Surprise did not mature as quickly, and gave a larger per cent 

 of shelled peas, but there seemed to be no difference in their quality. They are vigorous 

 and productive varieties and as they mature early and evenly they are valuable for 

 market garden purposes. 



Tall Erfurt Sugar, from Vaughan, is an edible podded sort of little value. The pods 

 are numerous, but they are poorly filled and as a rule are badly wrinkled. 



SUMMARY. 



For market garden purposes, where quantity and earliness are the chief considera- 

 tions, Scorcher, Prolific Early Market and Earliest of All are valuable varieties, but 

 for quality Gradus or Thomas Laxton are far superior, and they are nearly as early, 



