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MAULE’S EARLIEST OF ALL. 
—For years has distanced all competi- 
tors. Is there a seedsman in the U.S. 
who has not the best Extra Early Pea 
and where the special strain of Peas of- 
fered by the said seedsman is not all 
the way from one to two weeks earlier 
I do not claim there is no other extra 
early pea but Maule’s Earliest of All, 
but Ido claim that I have a strain of 
extra early peas that is the equal of 
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18 \ S anything on the market, and a thou- 
PMICMESMINCE NY SF sand per cent. better than lots of trash 
we that is yearly sold for extra early peas 
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try. Every gardener who has ever sown Maule’s Harliest of All along side of other varieties, 
has yet to find an earlier pea, and nothing can better illustrate its worth, than the fact that 
many times in the last ten years I have entirely sold put, as the demand invariably exceeds 
the supply. Unsurpassed in regularity of growth, yield, size of pod and general excellence. 
It is wonderfully productive and can almost always be cleared off in two pickings. Color 
of the dry peas a bright green. Packet, 10 cents; pint, 30 cents; quart, 50 cents. \ 
SHROPSHIRE HERO.—No late pea has pleased meso much in years as this variety. 
In my own trial grounds, it has equaled and surpassed any other main crop sort, among a test 
of 150 to 200 different varieties. The following received from one of the largest and most suc- 
cessful pea growers in Northern N. Y., describes Shropshire Hero: 
“Shropshire Hero is very prolific, and very true to its type. The quality is exceptionally 
good, the pods large and well filled and easily opened. Weare confident this Pea is likely to 
Supersede Pride of the Market and Stratagem. In earliness it is about like Champion of Eng- 
land and Yorkshire Heroes. It has been much more prolific with us than White Marrowfat, 
and as soon as there are enough tosupply the trade, think they are likely to take the place 
of White Marrowfats in the canner’s trade.” There is no question but that Shropshire 
Hero is bound to take the place of many sorts now favorably known to the American mar- 
ket and home gardener; grows about 2% feet, is a second early, and produces wonderfully well 
filled, long, handsome pods in great abundance. Peas at the same time are of unusually large 
size and delicious flavor. The peas described on this page are three leaders that are certainly 
worth a fortune to every professional market gardener. Pkt., 10 cts.; pint, 30 cts.; quart, 50 cts. 
NOTT’S EXCELSIOR.—This makes the fifth year I have boomed this magnificent Pea as mn 
absolutely the very best dwarf wrinkled variety in cultivation. In my trials of several hun- I 
dred new varieties of peas at Briar Crest, Nott’s Excelsior has proved itself the greatest addi- | if 
tion to our list of peas in many years. It is so hardy and vigorous that it may safely be 
planted in early spring with any smooth variety, and can be counted on for table use almost 
as soon, while, as every one knows. the quality of any wrinkled pea is far superior to any 
smooth. Time after time they have been fit for the table forty-five days from 
planting, with the most ordi-} 
nary cultivation. Pods are 
square and chunky, always 
containing from 7 to 9 large 
peas, packed so closely to- 
gether in the pods that the 
peas are always more square 
than round. It grows to a \ 
uniform height of one foot, \ 
and is at all times very ten- 
der and of fine flayor. Sel- 
YZ dom has any vegetable been 
more unanimously recom- 
mended than has Nott’s hix- 
celsior Pea, by all my custom- 
ers who have tried them, a 
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Jj mea plant of Nott’s Ex- 
complaint has never been re- 3 
eae Packet, 10 cents; celsior Peas grown from seed purchased of me 
pint, 30 cents; quart, 50 cents. |this year containing the most pods. 
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