GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



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Carter's Telephone. 



CASTER'S TELEPHONE. — Another 

 wrinkled English late variety; grows from 

 about 4^ to 5 feet high. The pods are very 

 long - , containing- from 8 to 12 fine flavored 

 peas. It is productive. 



Carter's Strategrem. 



CARTER'S S1RATEGEM. — This is a 

 wrinkled variety from England. It is very 

 distinct in vine and foliage; growing thick 

 and large, does not need any support. It 

 is the largest podded variety ever brought 

 out; pods 4 to o 1 /^ inches long, which can- 

 not he surpassed in flavor, and is \ery pro- 

 ductive. 



EARLY ALASKA. — This is an extra early 

 i pea, blue in color, the earliest by a few 



days of any other kind; very pure and pro- 

 ■ lific; the best flavored pea among the Extra 



Early smooth podded kinds. Recommend it 

 | highly. 



LAZTON'S ALPHA. — Each year adds 



| still more desirable features to this desir- 



; able early wrinkled variety; it produces 



fine, large-sized pods, very productive and 



of exquisite flavor, resembling the old 



Champion of England. 



PARAGON. — It is a white wrinkled pea, 

 second early, long straight pods, contain- 

 ing six to nine peas. Short stocky vine with 

 1 luxuriant foliage, pods light erreen. quality 

 unsurpassed, the largest producer known. 



BISHOP'S DWASP LONG POD. — An 



early dwarf variety; very stout and branch- 

 ing, requires no sticks. It is productive 

 and of excellent quality. 



CHAMPION CP ENGLAND. — A late. 



large vined and larsre podded sort. The 

 peas are sweet, tender and delicately fla- 

 vored and are borne until late in the 

 | season. 



EARLY TOM THUMB.— Very dwarfish 

 and quite productive. Can he cultivated in 

 rows a foot apart; requires no branches or 

 I sticks. 



AMERICAN WONDER. — A wrinkled pea 



of dwarf growth: is prolific, early, of fine 



; quality, and comes in after the Extra 



Early. 



MELTING SUGAR.— This variety is used 

 I either shelled or cocked in the pod. like 

 string beans, and when young is very ten- 

 der and sweet. 



DWARP SUGAR. — A variety of which 

 the whole pod can he uspd after the string 

 i is drawn off from the hark of the pod. 



TALL SUGAR. — Has thp same quality as 

 the foregoing kind, only prows taller, and 

 the pods are some, hat larger. 



CLAUDIT. — Since the introduction nf this 

 sort, it has rapidly grown in favor and 

 is now superseding Alaska. The peas 

 are the same color an.l average al>out 

 one and a half times as targe, the pods 

 being in about the sa;:,e proportion. 

 This means that less peas have to be 

 picked to make a barrel. The quality 

 of riaudit Peas for sale on the market is 

 fully equal to Alaska o r any .it her blue 

 peas, and its keeping qualities are better. 

 The vines usually grow li V* feet high. 

 bearing seven to nine peas to'the pod. and 

 retaining their freshness a long time after 

 picking. For early market planting it can- 

 not be surpassed anywhere. 



Plant Lespedeza Clover, the Greatest Forage Plant. 



