WALTER^ p. STOKES [j 219 Market Street. PHIbADELPHIA PA. 



The Best Northern-Grown 

 Seed Peas 



Culture. — Sow as earlj- as the ground can be worked and again everj- ten days or 

 two weeks for succession. They can be sown as late as the 20th of August for the last sow- 

 ings, using the Extra- Earlies. Sow in rows about 4 feet apart and i inch apart in the row, 

 and 3 to 4 inches deep. 



One quart will plant ICO feet of drill, 1% to 2 bushels will plant an acre 



Thomas Laxton Pea and Gradus Pea 



These two Peas have bounded into popularity and have made an immense amount of 

 money for market growers all over the country. They are both very remarkable Peas and 

 are so nearly alike in their characteristics and quality- that I show them together in order 

 that you may see just what the differenence in the two is. They are very early (almost as 

 early as the Extra- Early types), ver3' large-podded wrinkled peas, growing vigorously, with 

 vines 2K feet high. It is astonishing that peas with such fine large pods should be so early 

 in maturing. 



As will be seen from the two opposite photographs, the Thomas Laxton Pea is rather 

 shorter in the pod and blunt ended, but you will notice it has the larger number of peas in 

 the pod. The Gradus, on the other hand, makes a larger pod, thus filling the basket more 

 quickh", but has not quite as vigorous a vine as the Thomas Laxton. Both varieties have 

 their champions. I think, on the whole, the Thomas Laxton Pea, owing to its greater vigor, 

 is the more profitable one of the two. Price 

 of the Thomas Laxton is, by mail, postpaid 

 pkt. 10 cts., qt. 45 cts.; by express or freight 

 pk. Si. 85, bus. $7. The Gradus, b}^ mail, 

 postpaid, pkt. 10 cts., qt. 45 cts. ; by express 

 or freight, pk. $1.90, bus. $7.25. 



Gradus Pea 



Stokes' Early Epicure 



This new Pea, in color of foliage, habit 

 of plant, and size and shape of the pods, 

 somewhat resembles the Premium Gem ; 

 but it grows a little taller, is very much 

 more prolific and hardy, and the quality is 

 simply delicious. The pods are well filled to 

 the tip. It is an enormous cropper, producing 

 fully fifty per cent more than the McLean's 

 or Premium Gem, and of the finest quality. I predict for the Stokes' Early Epicure Pea, 

 when it becomes once introduced, that it will largely take the place of the Peas of the Gem 

 class, as it has every good quality that they possess and will produce almost double the crop. 

 By mail, postpaid, pkt. 10 cts., pt. 25 cts., qt. 45 cts.; by express, qt. 30c., pk. $1.75, bus. $6.75. 



New Prolific Early Market 



This fine new Pea is three or four days later in maturing than Stokes' New Record 

 Extra-Early, but it has a record of producing from thirty to fifty per cent more peas than 

 any other early variety. The pods are from 25 to 50 per cent longer than the usual Extra- 

 Early. The seed resembles the seed of the Extra-Early sorts, but is somewhat wrinkled. By 

 mail, postpaid, pkt. loc, pt. 25c., qt. 40c.; by express, qt. 25c., Kpk. 85c., pk. $1.50, bus. $5.50. 



Sutton's Excelsior 



New. The great merit of this new Pea lies in the fact that in it we have an early dwarf 

 wrinkled Pea in the front rank for earliness, yet with much larger, handsomer pods than any 

 dwarf wrhikled Pea yet introduced. It is similar in habit of growth to Nott's Excelsior, 

 which is one 01 the most popular dwarf wrinkled Peas, but has a much larger pod than 

 Nott's. It takes the place in the Extra-Early class that is now so acceptably filled by Strata- 

 gem and Telephone in the later sorts. It grows to a height of about 12 to 14 inches, showing 

 a great abundance of its long, broad, straight pods of a pale green color. By mail, postpaid, 

 pkt. 10 cts., qt. 45 cts. ; by express, qt. 30 cts., pk. $1.70, bus. $6.25. 



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Thomas Laxton Pea 



