Farquharti' Reliable Seeds, 19 South Mark.'t St., Boston. 37" 



PEAS. 



(ioniian, Erbse. French, Pois. 



No variety ol" vegetable receives inori- of our care in selecting than Peas. We make contracts 

 annually lor hundreds of bushels of the leading sorts, with growers of reliability and experience, 

 who raise our supplies from the finest and most carefully selected seed stocks in the country. We 

 cordially invite growers for market, and all others, to call and examine our stocks when in need of 

 true, pure, and fresh seed Peas. 



Culture. — A light soil, moderately ri(-h, should be selected for the early varieties, and old 

 decomposed manure, or leaf-mould should be scattered ahmg the bottom of the drill and covered lightly 

 with fine earth, so that the seed may not come in direct contact with the fertilizer. For general crops 

 a good dressing should be applied, and for the dwarf kinds the soil should be very rich. The earliest 

 I'eas are mostly round, smooth seeded. These are very hardy, and should be sown as early as possible 

 ill spring; later sowings should follow of the fine, sweet, wrinkled varieties. Sow I'eas in drills and 

 cover not less than four inches. For the lowest sorts the drills should be two feet apart; those grow- 

 ing taller should be three or four feet apart, according to height. When grown for private use. Peas 

 should be staked with brush, except the very dwarf -growing varieties. One quart to one hundred 

 feet of drill ; one and a half bushels sows one acre in drills. 



Special inducements offered to buyer.*; in large quantities for market. 

 EARLIEST VARIETIES. 



Per pkt. Per qt. Per pk. 



Rural New Yorker. Extra early; profusely covered with full, 



liood-sized pods. Height, two and a half feet, 10 .30 $1.50' 



Clipper. One of the sweete.st, earliest, most productive, and best of 



tlie very early Peas; distinct. Two and a half feet, . . . .10 .30 1.50 



Daniel O'Rourke, Improved. Our stock of this fine, standard 

 variety is quite unsurpassed for earliness, productiveness, size of 

 l)()d. and uniformity of heii^'ht. Two and a half feet, . . . .10 .30 125 



Carter's First Crop. Extra early; pods rather small. Two and a 



half feet 10 .30 1.50- 



Extra Early Caractacus. Eine, very free-bearing variety ; full- 

 sized iM)ds; quality excellent. Two and a half feet, . . . .10 .30 1.50 



Kentish Invicta. Unsurpassed for market or family use ; very early 

 and verv productive of large, full pods; ripens uniformly. Seeds 

 bine, two and a half feet, 10 .30 1.50 



Bliss's Amer^an Wonder. A remarkably fine, dwarf wrinkled 

 variety; extra early; requires no bushing; very sweet flavor. 

 Height about one foot, 10 .40 2.00- 



McLean's Little G'em. A green, wrinkled dwarf Pea, of a deli- 

 clous, rich, sugary flavor; very early. -Pleight one foot, . . .10 .30 1.50 



Premium. Gem. Somewhat more robust in habit than the Little 



Gem; very sweet. One and one-third feet high, 10 .30 1.50 



Laxton's Alpha. A wrinkled marrow pea of richest flavor; pods 



very numerous, large and well filled. Height about two feet, . .10 .30 1.50 



Tom Thumb. Very hardy, dwarf, round, white Pea. Height about 



nine inches, . .10 .30 1.50 



Blue Peter. Seeds blue ; similar to Tom Thumb in habit, but rather 



sweeter. One foot, 10 .30 1.50. 



SECOND EARLY VARIETIES. 



McLean's Advancer. Our stock of this invaluable Pea is of unsur- 

 passed excejlence ; its fine characteristics being retained by care- 

 ful selection. A dwarf, green, wrinkled marrow Pea, with numer- 

 ous, long, well-filled pods ; quality unsurpassed. Height, about 

 two and a quarter feet. 10 .30 1.50 



Bliss's Everbearing. Fine wrinkled marrow ; pods three to four 

 inches long, well filled with large peas; quality unsurpassed in 

 sweetness and flavor. Vine two feet, 10 .40 2.00 



Bliss's Abundance. Of dwarf, bushy habit; pods large, full, and 



nnm:;r()us; should be sown thinly. Height eighteen inches, . .10 .30 175 



Fillbasket. Exceedinglv productive; large, long, full pods; fine 



qnality. Three feet.^ * . . . ^ . ^ 10 .30 1.50 



Laxton's Longpod. Prolific; pods large, often with ten or twelve 



peas; first-class sort. Three feet, 10 .30 1.50 



Sugar Edible Podded. Dwarf; pods skinless and edible; good 



quality shelled, - . . . . .10 .40 2.0a 



