MAULE’S SELECT LIST OF CHOICE PEAS. . 




Peas belong in three groups: Garden, field and edible podded. Garden peas are smooth or 
wrinkled. The smooth are earliest and most hardy. ‘I'he wrinkled are sweetest. Field peas are 
of high value in stock feeding and green manuring. Edible podded peas are growing in favor. 
CuLTURE.—Peas do not demand the richest soil, but repay the use of fertilizers. Sow in earliest 
spring and make successional plantings every 10 days until July 1. Inthe latter part of August 
sow early peas for an autumncrop. Drill one to two inches deep in rows 2% to 4 feet apart. In 
tho field use no sticks. In garden culture sow in double rows 10 inches apart, and use supports 
for the vines. One pint to 76 feet of drill; 
2 to 3 bushels per acre. 














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MAULE’S EARLIEST OF ALL.—Thi 
most profitable pea is unsurpassed in ex- 
tra early qualities, in flavor, in size of pod 
and productiveness, in vigor and regular- 
ity of growth, and in genuine merit by any 
Other early variety on the American mar- 
ket. Every seedsman claims to sell an 
“earliest” pea, but after testing them all 
I know that none excel my own cele- 
brated strain in the points mentioned. 
Maule’s Earliest of All is the most profit- 
eble early sort grown, if I may judge by 
its sales. The demand for it increases year 
by year, and my stock is often completely 
exhausted before the end of the planting 
season. This pea can be cleared of almost 
its entire crop in two pickings, thus quickly leaving the 
ground ready for some other crop. ‘The dry peas are 
smooth, and of a light green color, and the variety is a 
favorite with market gardeners as well as with amateurs. 
Pkt., 10c.; pt., 25¢.; qt., 40c., postpaid. Pk., $1.00; bu., $3.50. 
NOTTS NEW PERFECTION. — Please see descrip- 
N-, tion of this promising new pea among the specialties. 
Gili TOM THUMB.—An old fashioned, smooth, very dwarf 
AN ‘2 sort. The vine never attains a growth of over ten inches, 
Z even in rich soil, and usually bears when only five or six 
inches high. It is extra early and very productive for so 
\“S small a vine. It has remained in favor during a long 
i} term of years by reason of its intrinsic merit. The peas 
are sweet and tender. Packet, 10 cents; pint, 25 cents; 
uart, 40 cents, postpaid. Peck, $1.25; bushel, $4.00. 
b ADVANCER.—An early wrinkled pea. The vines grow 
SS toa height of 2% to 8 feet, and are very prolific. The peas 
v\> are tender and of delicious flavor. This is a standard pea, 
and avery popular market sort in some sections. Packet, 
10 cts.; pt., 25 cts.; qt., 40 cts., postpaid. Pk., $1.25; bu. $4.00. 
$3 PREMIUM GEM. — A fine, early wrinkled pea, with 
TOM THUMB vine about 15 inches high. The pods are long, and are 
5 produced in abundance. It is claimed to be an improve- 
ment on Little Gem, being more robust. One of the most 
 ( profitable early wrinkled peas for market or family use. 
N° It has been successfully used for forcing under glass. 
Pkt., 10c.; pt., 25c.; qt., 40c., postpaid. Plk., $1.25; bu., $4.00. 
NOTT’S EXCELSIOR.—This is one of the very best 
dwarf wrinkled peas in cultivation. It is so hardy and vig- 
orous that it may be safely planted nearly or quite as early 
in spring as the smooth varieties, and will mature almost 
as soon; and the superior flavor of a wrinkled pea to a 
smooth pea needs no comment. Nott’s Excelsior is fre- 
quently ready for the table in 45 days from the sowing of 
* the seed. The pods are square and chunky, containing 
VS from 7 to 9 large peas, packed so closely that they are 
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S more nearly square than round. The peas are at all 
S times tender and of fine flavor. The vines grow to a uni- 
form height of about one foot. Nott’s Excelsior is highly 
recommended by all who have tried it. Pkt., 10 cts.; pt., 
25 cts; qt, 45 cts., postpaid. Peck, $1.25; bushel, $4.50. 
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AMERICAN WONDER. — This is a 
wrinkled pea, of dwarf habit, the vines being 
only 8 to 10 inches high. It is one of the earli- 
est of the wrinkled varieties. It is quite dis- 
tinct from all other sorts in its general appear- 
ance and remarkably stocky habit of growth, ¢ 
and the peas are of especially fine flavor. If *] 
planted after the coming of settled warm ¢k}} 
weather in spring, it will mature in 42 days vey 
from the seed. It is prolific, as many as forty 
pods having been counted upon a single vine, *f 
with nine large peas to the pod. Buyers are tf 
cautioned against the use of poor strains of tle 
this pea. I have the original, genuine Bliss \} 
stock of seed, as choice as ever. PKt., 10c.; pt., qi 
25c.; qt., 40c., postpaid. Pk., $1.25; bu., $4.50. dia 
PROSPERITY OR GRADUS.—A good, ex- | |) 
tra early wrinkled pea. (See specialties.) tik | 
NEW EARLY PRIZE.—A smooth pea of 4 
light green color, said to be the result of a cross 
between Tom Thumb and Advyancer. It pos- 
sesses rare excellence. It grows only about 18 
inches high, and is a splendid early cropper. 
The pods are large and heavy. It is a valuable 
combination of dwarf growth, earliness, heavy 
yield and very high quality. Although a 
smooth pea it is almost equal to the wrinkled 
varieties in sweetness and flavor, taking after 
its wrinkled ancestor in that respect. From 
the other parent it gets a hardy constitution, 
and the seed may be planted very early. I con- 
sider that it possesses certain valuable points 
peculiarly its own, and class it as a pea of the 
highest merit for home or market. Pkt., 10 cts.; 
pt., 25c.; qt., 40c., postpaid. Pk., $1.25; bu., $4.00. 





























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