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This new main crop pea is in 
“many respects the best early : 
crop variety of the telephone Saal 
type; producing long, straight, a 
dark green pods from 5 to 6 
inches long, well filled with large 
peas of excellent flavor. The 
vines grow nearly 5 feet high; 
are dark green, vigorous and 
exceedingly productive. Market 
gardeners are 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- 
Pkt., 10c.; pt., 35c.; | 
qt., 60c., postpaid. By express or 
freight, not prepaid, qt., 45c.; 4 qts., 
$1.50; peck,$2.75; bushel, $10.00. 
512 Sutton’s Excelsior Pea 
Having had considerable eall 
for this pea, I take pleasure in | 
Sutton’s Excelsior re- 
sembles Nott’s Excelsior, but has 
longer and broader pods of a 
light green color; the pods are. 
square at the ends with 6 or 8 
largesized peas toa pod. The vines i 
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 later than Nott’s 
Excelsior. It is undoubtedly a 
fine, early wrinkled pea for either 
home or market gardeners. 
Pkt., 10 cts.; pt., 35 cts.; qt., 60 cts., 
postpaid. By express or freight, 
not prepaid, qt., 45 cts.; 4 quarts, 
$1.50; peck, $2.75; bushel, $10.00. 
ket gardens. 
listing it. 
THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1911 
arly 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. 
Ten 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 twelve 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 eleven years, was produced what we call Prolific 
Early Market. 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 produe- 
tiveness and length of pod have followed this strain all through 
all these years, many of the plants containing 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 Prolifie Early Market induce me to value it 
very highly, as above stated. 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. Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 30 cts.; 
quart, 50 cts., postpaid. By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 
35 cents; 4 quarts, $1.25; peck, $2.25; bushel, $8.50. 
