PETER HENDERSON & CO.—VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
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->- PEAS, + 
German, Erbse. French, Pois. 
Spanish, Guizante. 
1 qt. for 75 feet of drill. 2 to 3 
' bushels in drills for an acre. 
> If sent by mail, 15 ets. qt. extra. 
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Our trial of Peas is probably the most 
© extensive on this side of the Atlantic, 
and it enablesus to discard inferior sorts, 
|’ and to offer in the following list only the 
Si -) best varieties. Peas come earliest to 
Y4— maturity in light, rich soil. Forgeneral 
= (i) crop, a deep loam, or a soil strongly in- 
) clining to clay, is best. For early crops 
decomposed leaves or leaf mould should 
be used, orif the soilis very poor, strong- 
er manure may be used. For general 
crops a good dressing should be applied, 
and for the dwarf growing kinds the soil 
can hardly be too rich. When grown as 
a market crop, Peas are never staked, 
and are sownin single rows, two or three 
inches deep, and from two to three feet. 
apart, according to variety or strength 
of the soil. When grown in small quan- 
tities for private use, they are geuerally 
sown in double rows, six or eight inches 
apart, and the tall varieties staked up by 
EXTRA EARLY PEA, HENDERSON’S FIRST OF ALL. 
= brush, or, what is better, trained on the 
new garden tr@llis which is offered on page 
94 of this Catalogue. For an early crop 
sow in February, March or April, accord- 
ing to latitude, as soon as the ground can be worked, and make repeated sowings every two weeks for succession. After the first of June sowing should be discontinued 
until the middle of August, when a good crop may sometimes be secured by sowing an extra early sort for fall use. 
EXTRA EARLY PEAS OF MEDIUM HEIGHT. 25103. 
Those marked thus * are Wrinkled Varieties. 
HENDERSON’S FIRST OF ALL. § The best extra early Pea ever 
offered. This variety is unequaled for excellence, yield, size 
of pod and regularity of growth. Height, 246 feet, or fully six 
inches dwarfer than the Improved Daniel O’Rourke, First and 
Best, or Philadelphia Extra Early, and produces pods of good 
size, which are well filled with round, smooth, white peas of 
splendid flavor. It is a prodigious bearer, and ripens up so 
evenly as not to require more than two pickings to clear off the 
crop, and in this last feature and in its extreme earliness cen- 
sist its great value to market gardeners and truckers. At the 
same time we know of no other variety that is more popular 
than Henderson’s First of Allin private gardens. This variety 
is sent out only in sealed packages and bags. (See cut.) 20 cts. 
pt.; 30 cts. qt.; $1.25 peck; $4.50 bush. 
ALASKA. The earliest blue Pea, very uniform in growth. The 
dark green color of the pods makes it extremely desirable, as it 
ean be carried long distances without losing color, which qual- 
ity, combined with its earliness and uniformity of ripening, 
makes it a most desirable extra early Pea for market gardeners; 
height, 2 feet. (See cut.) 20 cts. per pt.; 30 cts. per qt.; $1.25 
per peck; $4.50 per bush. 
[IMPROVED DANIEL O’ROURKE. A favorite extra early vari- 
. ety. Height, 3 ft. 15c. pt. ; 25c. qt. ; $1.15 peck ; $4.00 per bush. 
Philadelphia Extra Harly. Height,3 feet. A very desirable early 
variety, largely grown South. 15 cts. pt.; 25 cts. qt.; $1.15 
peck; $4.00 bush. 
FIRST AND BEST. Height, 3 feet. 
$1.15 peck; $4.00 bush. 
RURAL NEW YORKER. A first-class early variety. 
__ pt.; 25 ets. qt.; $1.15 peck; $4.00 bush. 
‘LAXTON’S ALPHA. The earliest of all the medium height 
wrinkled Peas, of fine quality and very prolific; pods large and 
well filled. Height, 3 feet. 20 cts. pt.; 30 cts. qt.; $1.75 peck; 
$6.00 bush. 
*THE ADMIRAL. (Sce Novelties, pagel4.) 60 cts. pt.; $1.00 qt. 
The First of All Peas proved to be the earliest and best Pea in our garden. I 
had seventeen plants mature of the Bush Lima Beans, and have 1,70” beans to 
plant this year, besides giving some to my neighbors.—G. TaLzor, Falun, Kan., 
February 10th, 1890. 
DWARF EXTRA EARLY PEAS. ® io tect high 
Those marked thus * are Wrinkled Varieties. 
BLUE BEAUTY. Its distinctive feature is its wnusualiy regular 
habit of growth. Ofauniform height of 134 feet, so smooth 
and level in its growth that it resembles a well kept hedge. 
It is a blue, round pea, and is nearly as early as the American 
Wonder. Pods of medium size, borne in the greatest profusion, 
and are well filled for so early a Pea. In quality and flavor 
Blue Beauty cannot be surpassed. 20 cts. pt. ; 35 cts. qt. ; $1.75 
peck; $6.00 bush. 
15 cts. pt.; 25 ets. qt.; 
15 ets. 
DWARF EXTRA EARLY PEAS—Continued. 
Blue Peter (iMuLean’s). A larger, better and earlier form of Tom 
Thumb, having blue seed. It is remarkably dwarf, very early, 
a capital bearer, and of excellent quality. Height, 34 foot. 20 
cts. pt.; 35 ets. qt.; $1.75 peck; $6.00 bush. 
Tom Thumb. Remarkably dwarf and early, of excellent quality, 
and yields abundantly. Height,1 foot. 20 cts. pt.; 35 cts. qt.; 
$2.00 peck ; $7.00 bush. 
*AMERICAN WONTER. Far better suited to the private than 
the market garden, as it is not productive enough to make it 
much grown as a market sort. It is very early, however. The 
peas are wrinkled, and its distinctiveness comsists in its ex- 
treme dwarf growth. Of the finest quality. Height, 9 inches. 
20 cts. pt.; 35 cts. qt.; $2.00 peck; $7.00 bush. 
*CHELSEA. (See Novelties, page 14.) Height, 1 foot. 50 cts. pt. ; 
75 ets. qt. 
*LITTLE GEM (McLEAN'S). A green wrinkled variety which 
comes into use a few days later than the First of All or Improved 
Daniel O’Rourke. 18 inches high, very prolific, and of excellent 
flavor. 20 cts. pt.; 30 cts. qt.; $1.50 peck; $5.50 bush. 
*PREMIUM GEM, EXTRA EARLY. A very fine dwarf Pea of 
The seeds wnich I pur- 
chased from you last 
spring gave the 
best possible sat- 
isfaction. — W. 
S.. Mace, To- 
| from your seeds, the 
| Early Puritan Pota- 
| toes doing partic- 
lularly well. 
| PHILIP D. 
|GOEPEL, wanda, Pa., 
| Victoria, December 
“AN 
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I bought of 
| you exceeded 
| the beauty of 
the picture in the 
Catalogue. —Mnrs. 
S. BayLess, Kings- 
ton, Ga., Mar. 19, 1890. 
immense and 
as solid as a cab- | 
/bage.—E. GERS- | 
/BACHER, Clifton. 
Pa., May 22, 1890. 
