VEGETABLES RAISED FOR MARKET 



taken the place of the old American Wonder and 

 Nott's Excelsior. 



Gradus and Thomas Laxton are varieties similar 

 in habit, with enormous pods, fairly well filled and 

 of tenderest flavour. They are great yielders and 

 invaluable for the market gardener. 



Button's Excelsior is an English variety of 

 superior merit. Very early, bearing large-sized 

 pods abundantly on rather dwarf vines. 



For a medium early crop a good strain of the 

 old McLean's Advancer is desirable. 



Of the late sorts, Stratagem and Telephone 

 have the call. Many of the market gardeners 

 grow an early wrinkled sort, as Excelsior, in suc- 

 cession rather than the taller-vined sorts, as 

 Stratagem and Telephone, on account of saving 

 of labour in bushing and freedom from mildew 

 during the dull days of August, to which the tall 

 sorts are subject. 



All the late kinds need wider planting than the 

 early dwarf sorts about four feet between rows 

 is not too much. The number of bushels of pods 

 raised from a bushel of seed peas varies from one 

 hundred to one hundred and fifty ; the price (though 

 depressed and -irregular as a consequence of 



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