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larger size, while the plants perhaps are only 12 or 18 inches 

 high. Our children, for instance, would pick three baskets of 

 Stratagem, or Yorkshire Hero, etc., as quickly and easily as 



they could fill one of the 

 Black-Eyed Marrowfats. 

 Earliest of All, 

 Maule's Improved 

 Extra Early. — These two 

 sorts are the only ones of 

 the very early smooth 

 kind, with which I have 

 been entirely pleased. 

 Pods are good-sized and 

 well-filled, and the peas 

 of very good quality. A 

 few days earlier than 

 Little Gem, and decidedly 

 prolific. Good for both 

 market and home use. 

 Alaska, 



Daniel O'Rourke, 

 Philadelphia Extra 

 Early, 



First and Best. — In 

 these we have other 

 and very popular market 



yirm 



Bliss' Everbearing. 



varieties of the first early 

 smooth class. All of this 

 kind are somewhat similar in 

 general characteristics, and 

 grow from i ^ to 2 feet high. 



Black-Eyed Marrowfat. — 

 Very popular with farmers for 

 general use, and as a field 

 variety. Good bearer; pods 

 large and well-filled. A late, 

 smooth variety. 



Blue Peter, McLean's 

 Blue Peter, 



Blue Imperial, Dwarf 

 Blue Imperial, 



Blue Beauty. — These blue- 

 seeded smooth varieties bear 

 numerous and well-filled pods; 



and the peas are large and handsome, but not equal in flavor to 

 the wrinkled kinds. 



American Wonder. 



