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T>. M. FERRY & CO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



The crop should be gathered as fast as it becomes 

 Jit for use. If even a few pods begin to ripen, young 

 pods will not only cease to form, but those partly ad- 

 vanced will cease to enlarge. 



All Wrinkled Peas are superior to, more delicate 

 in flavor and remain longer in season than the 

 smooth sorts, for as in sugar corn, the wrinkled 

 appearance indicates a greater amount of saccha- 

 rine matter. 



EXTRA EARLY SORTS. 



Ferry's First and Best. — Complaint is sometimes 

 made that the different seedsmen offer the same pea 

 under different names, but careful comparison convinces 

 us that the stock we offer as First and Best is, indeed, 

 the first and the best as to earliness and uniformity of 

 ripening and for market gardener's use, maturing all 

 the pods in about forty-five days, so that frequently the 

 ground can be ready for a second crop in seven weeks 

 from planting. Vines small, about eighteen inches high, 

 bearing three to seven straight, handsome pods, each 

 containing six to eight medium sized round peas of good 

 quality. 



D. M. Ferry & Co's Extra Early.— For family 

 use this is probably equal to the preceding, though it 

 does not ripen as evenly. Peas large enough to eat are 

 afforded as early as from any variety, and the vines con- 

 tinue bearing for a week or ten days, which, for family 

 use, is a desirable quality. The Rural New Yorker Pea, 

 which is offered at a high price, has proved on our 

 grounds, very similar, but in no way superior, to our 

 Extra Early. 



Bliss- American Wonder. 



Bliss' American Wonder. — A variety whose stout, 

 branching vines grow only about nine inches high, and 

 are covered with long, well filled pods containing seven 

 or eight large, exceedingly sweet, tender and well fla- 

 vored peas, and are produced nearly as early as First 

 and Best. We have taken particular pains in raising 

 our stock, to be sure it was true and of the best quality, 

 as some spurious stock is being offered. 



Minimum. — Similar in general appearance of vine 

 to the last, but with smaller leaves and finer stems. 

 The pods are quite distinct, smaller, curved, compressed 



between the peas; green peas the sweetest of any sort 

 in cultivation. The pods being small and thin the 

 apparent yield is light, but this will furnish as many 

 peas as any of the dwarf sorts and they are so fine in 

 quality that we recommend this sort for the home garden. 



Earliest of All.— This is one of the best of the early 

 peas, but unfortunately there has been a great deal of 

 spurious and inferior stock sold under the name and so it 

 has not become so popular as it deserves. The stock we 

 offer is true and is very uniform and even, ripening as 

 early as most strains of Extra Early, maturing all of the 

 .crop for one picking, and the peas retaining their color 

 after cooking. We have carefully compared this with 

 the best stock of Alaska sold by the introducer and have 

 found it to be earlier and more uniform, and we believe 

 it to be the best extra early blue pea in cultivation. 

 Vines eighteen inches high, bearing pods which are uni- 

 formly straight and handsome, and well filled with peas 

 of the best quality. 



McBeth's Pride.— An improved strain of Kentish 

 Invicta. A little stronger growing and more productive 

 than the Earliest of All, and not quite so uniform in 

 ripening, but still a great improvement on the old Kent- 

 ish Invicta, particularly in earliness and productiveness. 



Kentish Invicta. 



