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ALDERMAN PEA. 

MARKET PEA 































Harly Market. 
ALDERMAN PEA. 
This new m: 
many respects the best early 
of the telephone = 
crop variety 
type; producing long, straight, ° 
dark green pods from 5 to 6 
ain crop pea is in 
inches long, well filled with large 
peas of excel 
lent flavor. The 
vines grow nearly 5 feet high; 
are dark green, vigorous and 
exceedingly pr 
gardeners are 
oductive. Market 
demanding the 
large podded, dark green colored 
sorts, which retain their fine ap- 
pearance even after a distant 
shipment; the Alderman answers 
these requirements. One of the 
best sorts for both home or mar- 
ket gardens. 
Having had 
for this pea, I take pleasure in 
listing it this 
time. Sutton’s Excelsier resem- 
bles Nott’s Exeelsior, but has! 
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longer and b 
light green co 
square at the 
large sized peas 
grow 15 in. long and are hardy, 
permitting early planting. They 
are very heavy bearers, and on 
account of its hardiness and large 
sized pods, many prefer Sutton’s 
Excelsior to the large podded 
taller varieties. Comes into bear- 
ing a few days 
Excelsior. It 
fine, early wrinkled pea for either 
home or market gardeners. 
Pkt., 10 cts.; pt., 30 cts.; qt., 55 cts., 
postpaid. By express or freight, 
not prepaid, qt., 40 cts.; 4 quarts, 
qt., 6O0c., postpaid. By express or 
reight, not prepaid, qt., 45c.; 4 qts., 
1.50; peck,$2.75; bushel, $10.00. 
SUTTON’S EXCELSIOR PEA. | 
Pkt., 10c.; pt., 35c.; 
considerable call 
year for the first 
roader pods of a 
lor; the pods are 
very highly, as above stated. 



Vegetable Seeds—83 
MARKET PEA. 
Also Listed as New Prolific Extra Early. 
30 to 50 Per Cent. More Prolific Than Alaska. 
I offered this grand pea in 1901 for the first time, quoting the 
introducer to the effect that while it was 3 to 4 days later than 
the first early sorts, it was 30 to 50 per cent. more prolific. 
Kight years’ experience with it leads me to conclude that it is 
practically as early as the very first of all, and more prolific. 
The introducers, Messrs. N. B. Keeney & Son, prominent 
New York pea growers, thus speak of it: ‘‘About ten years 
ago the writer selected a very productive plant of an extra 
early pea, having an exceptionally long pod. From this, dur- 
ing the last ten years, was produced what we call Prolifie 
Our tests of this pea during ’94, ’96 and ’97 
showed it to blossom two days later than our earliest and best 
strain of Extra Early, and in the development of pods suitable 
for picking, 3 or 4 days behind; but the remarkable produc- 
tiveness and length of pod have followed this strain all through 
all these years, many of the plants this season, 1900, contain- 
ing 40 to 50 fully developed pods as the result of one seed 
sown; and I believe this pea will give a yield of 30 to 50 per 
cent. more than any other strain of extra earlies I know of.” 
My trials of Prolific Early Market induce me to value it 
The seed resembles the seed of 
the hard, round, extra early sorts, but is somewhat wrinkled. 
But the point or characteristic which I desire most to empha- 
size is that this variety is very prolific, a thing of extreme 
importance in a first early pea. 
quart, 45 cts., postpaid. By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 
30 cents; 4 quarts, $1.10; peck, $2.00; bushel, $7.50. 
Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 25 cts.; 








































































































































































ends with 6 or 
toa pod. The vines \ 
later than Nott’s 
is undoubtedly a 
$1.40; peck, $2.50; bushel, $9.00. 














































SUTTON’S EXCELSIOR PEA, 
