H. W. BUCKBEE, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS. 



4.7 



Please Remember thai 

 I nil. I the Entire 

 Stock of this Variety. 



Earliest Pea in the WorEd. 



READY FOR PICKING IN 4Q DAYS . 



10,000 Bushels Sold Annually. 



EVERY PACKET OF 

 PEAS CONTAINS 2 

 OUNCES OR MORE 



Where earliness, productiveness, large-sized pods and sweetness 

 called the blooded stock of all finest Early Peas, and stands at the 

 market in 40 days. The entire crop can be taken off in two picking 



To the market gardener, earliness is of the greatest importance 

 often a depreciation of from $2.00 to $4.00 per barrel; the inexperienced 

 an.' Buckbce'c Lightning Express is that variety; sow them, you will 

 2.000 bushels, and each year the demand for them has steadily 

 Pen growing districts of Florida. Louisiana. Mississippi and North 

 those" sections, and all through the United States and Canada, where 

 the same reputation for both earliuess 

 from 2 to 2'!> feet, in accordance with 

 runners, and" never require sticking; 

 a handful can be grasped at one time. 

 Buckbee's Lightning Express can be had 



They are much hardier, more produc- 

 the weather than any other variety. 

 Early, but they are Entirely Free from 

 taken off in two pickings. 



of flavor are desired, this is the variety to grow; it may be truly 

 ' head for the above Rue qualities: in a favorable season ready for 



as even a few days frequently makes a great difference in price, 

 find this out when too late, therefore the earliest is what is required, 

 make no mistake. Was introduced by us in '87 and sold that year 

 increased; they bave been the first Peas shipped north from the great 

 Carolina since '88. which can readily be attested to by the growers of 

 hundreds of acres- of them are annually grown they havo attained 



and productiveness. Their growth ranges 

 the season; they are entirely free from 

 it is an easy variety to pick, as almost 

 Please observe that the true stock of 

 through our house only, 

 tive. and withstand greater changes in 

 They are not only the largest podded 

 Runners, and the. entire crop can be 



L03K AT THESE REPORTS. 



Rev. J. Reynard Lawrence. of 

 Lanesboro, Mass.. (the prominent seed 

 spec.'alist. whose tests at Eden Trial 

 Crounds have a wide reputation) writes 

 under recent date: "It was a race from 

 start to finish between Buckbee's Light- 

 ning Express and Gradus, an 1 Lightning Express came out 5 

 nnead, be.ns ready to pick in 40 days from time of planting, 

 days start in the market makes a big difference in price, and so 

 all who have market for the Earliest Peas should plant Buckbee's 

 Lightning F/xpress." 



Frank D. Lee. Long Island, N. Y.. writes: 



"I cleared over $1,100 from your Lightning Express Peas. They 

 were the first i". ihe market and sold fast as we could pick them. 

 Please ship by first freight ten Bushels Lightning Express; enclosed 

 find draft. Mure orders to follow." 



J. W. Bass. Paris. Texas, writes: 



"The Lightning Express Pea was .-just what you represented it to 

 be. Positively it Is the finest Early Pea 1 ever planted. It yields 

 three times the quantity of other early sorts. 1 have made three 

 times the money with this than with any other Peas I have ever 

 planted." 



A WORD TO MARKET GARDENERS 



The Pea is one of the most important 

 and profitable crops; you therefore can- 

 not bestow too much care in selecting 

 your seed, as the market is always over- 

 stocked with what are called Finest Ear- 

 lies and offered at temptingly low prices. 

 These are generally sown in Canada in a wild, broadcast manner, 

 full of runners and sold under this name to command a better 

 prk'o in the market. There is no variety that deteriorates more 

 rapidly, both in earliuess and dwarfness of habit, than the Early 

 Pea, and it requires a grower to exercise his greatest care in se- 

 jaet'ng his stock of seed, and its proper culture, in order to keep 

 it up to its correct standard, both for earlicess and free from run- 

 ners. Buckbee's lightning Express has always maintained the 

 highest reputation with gardeners for its earliness, productiveness 

 and tine quality, and is today the best known and the most popular 

 among all growers; it is the perfection of Peas, both for earliness 

 acq uniform dwarf habit in its growth. One of its great features 

 is that the crop is almost ready for market at once, and the whole 

 crop can be harvested in one or two pickings. These are very 

 desirable features and just what the gardener requires, and every- 

 one should plant this world's greatest money-making Pea. 



Note the low price: Prepaid. Pkt. 8c.; V 2 pt. 15c; pt. 25c; 

 qt. 40c. 



FOR PRICES IN QUANTITY SEE WHOLESALE PAGES. 



The best Cabbage? See Page 22. Water Melon? That's on Page 39. The best Tomato? 

 BEEFSTEAK, to be sure. BUCKBEE'S NEW CARDINAL, is the Best Onion for all pur= 

 poses. See front cover page. You will also see Painting from Nature on Inside second cover 

 page of the latest acquisition in Peas, Buckbee's Vigorosa. Don't miss them. 



You Can't Afford to Do Without the "Famous Quaker Oats." (See Center of This Book.) 



