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PEAS EARLY WRINKLED KINDS 



AMONG these we find sorts of truly superlative 

 quality and of so thoroughbred character that they 

 seldom disappoint. Little Marvel is all the name implies. 

 Within sixty days from sowing seeds the sturdy eighteen 

 to twenty-four-inch vines will bear, on an average, eight 

 pods, produced in pairs. They are three inches long and 

 are tightly filled with seven large peas of superb flavor, 

 yielding about eight quarts of pods per fifteen-foot row. 



Suttons Excelsior (illustrated above) yields four-inch 

 pods a week later. It grows slightly taller than Little 

 Marvel and is, perhaps, the heaviest yielder of pods in 

 this class, ten quarts for every fifteen feet of row being the 

 average record. Suttons Excelsior has light green pods 

 and peas. About five days later sees Thomas Laxton 

 at its best. This is the most thoroughbred American 

 sort to date. Borne on three-foot vines, the pods some- 

 what resemble those of Suttons Excelsior, but both 

 pods and peas are dark green. 



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