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6- /. SARQUHAR & CO.'S SEED CATALOGUE. 



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PEAS. (Erbse.) 



A light soil, moderately rich should be ^f^^^^^^^i^^ ffa^SS^'ttSrtWE^ 

 along tp bottom of ^the ^J^SdhtS^^Sf JST^lS taffffiS^SSdi. The earliest Peas are mostly round 

 -neralr crops a good dressing should be applied > ™y°l™*™*™ *™t™ DOSS ible in spring: later sowings of the fine, sweet, wrinkled vari- 

 ed smooth-seeded. They ■» very hardy, /ndshould be ^"^J^P^^^^the drills should be two feet apart; those 

 eties should follow Sow Peas in drills and covernot b»thu fow ^g* 5 ^ « ^° for ivate us Peas should be staked with brush, 



SSI^e^lS-^g^rieS f &^;r^^^VS - ««^W W » - acre in drills 

 except the very dwart growing „,*«.■„ fha n Peas We contract annually for hundreds of bushels of the leading 



No vegetable rece.ves more o f our car than Peas. We ^contrac ann y f - nest and most care fully selected 



sorts with growers of ^^ h ^^tta?,f^\nZ^t the growing crops. We cordially invite growers for market 



5W«/ Prices quoted to buyers in large quantities for market 



EXTRA 



Gr adus or 

 Prosperity Pea. 



EARLY PEAS. 



Earliest of AH, or Alaska. Large, full, dark 

 green pods ; peas of good size, sweet and 



juicy 



Clipper. Pure stock. Pods dark green ; very 



early; two feet 10 



Maud S. Seed white; very early and produc- 

 tive; one of the leading sorts for first crop ; 



fine stock; height about two feet 10 



Daniel O'Rourke, Improved. Our stock of 

 this splendid early pea is of the greatest 

 excellence, being selected with a view to 

 earliness, length of pod, size of pea ; even- 

 ripening and productiveness. One of the 

 best of the earlies. Height about two-and- 

 a-half feet • 



Early Dexter. Very early with long, well- 

 filled pods; enormously productive ; height 



two-and-a-half feet 



First and Best. Seed round and white ; one 

 of the most profitable extra earlies for 

 market; vine two-and-a-half feet; seed 



stands early planting 



Exonian . An early wrinkled sort of remarkable 

 fine quality ; pods contain from six to nine 

 good-sized peas of fine dark green .... 

 Kentish Invicta. Seed blue, round; one of 

 the best flavored and most productive extra 

 earlies for family use, or market ; very hardy, 

 with long, dark green closely filled pods; 



vine about two-and-a-half feet 



Surprise. Resembling in vine, size and shape 

 of the pod and ripening with Maud S. and 

 Alaska ; tender quality and delicate flavor ; 

 is sure to be in great demand as soon as 

 generally distributed and its merits thor- 

 oughly known. Seed small green wrinkled, 



height 2 feet 



Bliss* American Wonder. A very dwarf 

 and remarkably fine wrinkled variety, extra 

 early, producing a multitude of large, very 

 closely filled pods; flavor delicious; height 



about nine inches .10 



Nott's Excelsior. As early as the American 

 Wonder with larger, better filled pods and 

 more of them; is a remarkable cropper; 

 flavor as fine as Champion of England. One 

 of the finest extra early peas ever offered; 



height about fifteen inches 



McLean's Little Gem. A dwarf green 

 wrinkled pea; rich and sugary; very early, 

 and every way excellent ; height about one 



foot 



Premium Gem. Slightly larger every way 



than Little Gem 



Tom Thumb. Seed white ; round ; very hardy ; 



height about nine inches io 



Petit Pois, or Small Early French. True 



variety ; pick when young ; four feet . . 

 Gradus. (Prosperity.) The earliest tall, large- 

 podded, wrinkled Pea in cultivation. It 

 grows about two-and-half feet high, is of 

 robust and vigorous habit and produces an 

 enormous crop of large pods, filled with 

 tender, sweet and lucious Peas. 1 he seed 

 we offer was grown from stock bought from 

 the introducer 



Pkt. Qt. Peck. Bush. 



io .30 $1.7 5 $6.00 



3° !-75 



6.00 



25 1.50 5.00 



10 .25 1.50 5.00 



.10 .25 1.50 5.00 



10 .25 1.50 5.00 



.10 .30 1.50 5 



,00 



10 .30 1.50 5.00 



10 .35 2.00 7.00 



.40 2.00 7.0c 



.10 .40 2.00 7.0c 



.10 



10 



•30 

 •30 



.25 



10 .25 



i-75 



i-75 

 1.50 



6.50 

 6.50 

 6.00 



5.0c 



to .*• 3-?o 



