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Carter's Telephone. 



Carter's Telephone. Another wrinkled 

 English late variety; grows from about 

 41/^ to 5 feet high. The pods are very 

 long, containing from 8 to 12 fine flavored 

 peas. It is productive. 



Thos. Laxton. Pods large, long and 

 deep green in color; seed wrinkled, 

 sweet and of fne flavor. 



Bishop's Dwarf Long Pod. An early 

 dwarf variety; very stout and branching, 

 requires no sticks. It is productive and 

 of excellent quality. 



Champion of England. A late, large 

 vined and large podded sort. The peas 

 are sweet, tender and delicately flavored 

 and are borne until late in the season. 



McLean's Advancer. This is another 

 green wrinkled variety, about two weeks 

 earlier than the foregoing kind. 



McLean's Little Gem. A dwarf wrinkled 

 variety. It is early, very prolific and of 

 excellent flavor. Requires no sticks. 



Laxton's Prolific Long Pod. A green, 

 narrow pea of good quality. Pods long 

 and Vv'ell filled. It is second early, and 

 can be recommended for the use of 

 market gardeners, being very prolific. 



Early Alaska. This is an extra early 

 pea, blue in color, the earliest by a few 

 days ot any other kind; very pure and 

 prolific, the best flavored pea among the 

 Extra Ear^y smooth podded kinds. Re- 

 commend it highly. 



Extra Early or First and Best. Very 

 popular with market gardeners. It is 

 very p'oductive and well flavored. T'le 

 stock v>^e sell is as good as any, no ma- 

 ter whose name is put before Extra 

 Early. 



Prize Winner. One of the earliest 

 Sweet Wrinkled Peas. A ideal pea for 

 the market gardeners. Decidedly superior 

 to any other stort for the home garden. 



FTFT /D OJt 



For Price List See Red 

 Canada Field. 

 White, Red and Speckled Sugar Crowder 



or Forty Day. 

 Lady. 



Black-Eyed Field. 

 Whippoorwill. 



Morning Star. Where earliness, pro- 

 ductiveness, large-tized pods and sweet- 

 ness of flavor are desired, this is the va- 

 riety to grow, they stand at the head of 

 the list for the above fine qualities. In 

 a favorable season they are ready for 

 market in forty-two days. 



Eugenie. A white wrinkled variety of 

 fine flavor; it is of the same season as 

 the Advancer. Cannot be too highly re- 

 commended for family use 



Paragon. It is a white wrinkled pea,, 

 second early, long straight pods, contain- 

 ing six to nine peas. Short stocky vine' 

 with luxuriant foliage, pods light green; 

 qu?lity unsurpassed, the largest pro- 

 ducer known. 



Daisy or Dwarf Telephone. Half 

 dwarf, stocky, healthy and vigorous. Ex- 

 ceedingly r>roductive. 



Dwarf Blue Imperial. A very good 

 bearer if planted early, pods are large 

 and well filled. 



Royal Dwarf Marrowfat. Similar to 

 the larse Marrowfat, but of dwarf habit. 



Black-Eyed Marrowfat. This kind is 

 planted more for the market than any 

 other. It is very productive, and when 

 young, quite tender. Grows about 4 feet 

 hieh. 



Large White Marrowfat. Similar to the- 

 above variety, except that it grows about 

 two f°et tnller and is less productive. 



Melting Sugar. This variety is used 

 eithed shelled or cooked in the pod. like 

 string beans, and when young is very 

 tender and sweet. 



Dwarf Sugar. A variety of which the 

 whole nod can be u=ed after the string 

 is drawn off from the back of the pod. 



Tall Sugar. Fas the same oualities as 

 the foregoing kind, only grows taller, and 

 the pods are somewhat larger. 



COW PEAS. 



Pages in Back of Book. 

 Clay Cow. 

 Wonderful. 

 Red Ripper. 

 Unknown Cow. 



Steck'er's Improved Louisiana Wild Cow- 

 New Era. 



Our Bird Gravel speaks for itself. 



