MAULE'S SELECT LIST OF CHOICE PEAS. 



Peas belong in three groups : Garden, field and edible podded. Garden peas are Bmooth or 

 ■wrinkled. The smooth are earliest and most hardy. The wrinkled are sweetest. Field peas are 

 of high value in stock feeding and green manuring. Edible podded peas are growing in favor. 



CULTU-RK. — 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. In the latter part of August 

 sow early peas for an autumn crop. Drill one to two inches deep in rows 2>2 to 4 feet apart. In 

 the field use no sticks. In garden culture sow in double rows 10 inches apart, and u^e supports 



for the vines. Une pmt to 75 leet of drill; 

 2 to d bushels per acre. 



MAULE S EARLIEST OF ALL. 



MAII1,E'S EARLIEST OF AtL This 



most piohlable pea is unsurpassed in ex- 

 tra early qualities, in flavor, in size of pod 

 and productiveness, m vigor and regular- 

 ity of growth, and m genuine merit by any 

 other eaily variety on the Ameiican 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., lOc; pt., 30c.; qt., 50c., postpaid. Pk., $1.25; bu., $4.00. 



NOTT'S 1VE"VI^ PERFECTION Please see descrip- 

 tion of this promising new pea among the specialties. 



TOM THUMB.— An old fashioned, smooth, very dwarf 

 sort. The vine never attains a growth of over ten inches, 

 even in rich soil, and usually bears when only five or six 

 inches high. It is extra early and very productive for so 

 small a vine. It has remained in favor during a long 

 term of years by reason of its intrinsic merit. The peas 

 are sweet and tender. Packet, 10 cents; pint, 25 cents; 

 quart, 40 cents, postpaid. Peck, $1.25; bushel, $4-50. 



ADVANCER.— An early wrinkled pea. The vines grow 

 to a height of 2^^ to 3 feet, and are very prolific. The peas 

 are tender and of delicious flavor. This is a standard pea, 

 and a very popular market sort in some sections. Packet, 

 10 cts.; pt., 2,5 cts.; qt., 40 cts., postpaid. Pk., $1.2-5; bu. $4.50. 

 PREMIUM GEM. — A fine, early wrinkled pea, with 

 vine about 15 inches high. The pods are long, and are 

 produced in abundance. It is claimed to be an improve- 

 ment on Little Gem, being more robust. One of the most 

 nrofltable early wrinkled peas for market or family use. 

 ^t has been successfully used for forcing under glass. 

 Pkt., lOc; pt., 25e.; qt., 40c., postpaid. Pk., $1.25; bu. ~l "> 



NOTT'S EXCELSIOR This is one of the vei \ 1 ^l 



iwarf wrinkled peas in cultivation. It is so hardy an i \ i 

 )rous that it may be safely planted nearly or quite 8 ■> I i i 

 n spring as the smooth varieties, and will mature In ■-( 

 IS soon; and the superior flavor of a wrinkled p< i t i 

 imooth pea heeds no comment. Nott's Excelsioi - fi 

 [uently ready for the table in 45 days from th-- «o' i 

 he seed. The pods are square and chunky, 

 irom 7 to 9 large peas, packed so closely tl 

 nore nearly square than round. The peab I 



imes tender and of fine flavor. The vines gn 

 brm height of about one foot. Nott's Excelsi 

 ecommended by all who have tried it. Pkt i 



cts; qt, 50 cts., postpaid. Peck, $1.25; bushel, 



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 viirieties. 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 

 weather in spring, it will mature in 42 days 

 from the seed. It is prolific, as many as forty 

 pods having been counted upon a single vine, 

 with nine large peas to the pod. Buyers are 

 cautioned against the use of poor strains of 

 this pea. I have the original, genuine Bliss 

 stock of seed, as choice as ever. Pkt., lOc; pt., 

 25c.; qt, 40c., postpaid. Pk., $1.25; bu., $4.50. 



PROSPERITY OR GRADUS A good, ex- \ 



tra early wrinkled pea. (See specialties.) 



NEAV EARLY PRIZE A smooth pea of j 



light green color, said to be the result of a cross 

 between Tom Thumb and Advancer. It pos- 

 sesses rare excellence. It grows only about 18 

 inches high, and is a splendid early cropper. 

 The pods are large and heavj'. 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 con.stitution, 

 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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