PETER HENDERSON ACO.,NEW YORK 



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HENDEKSON'S FAMOUS 



Prosperity Pea 



THE EARLIEST WKINKLED 

 or MARROW PEA GROWN. 



SWEET. LUSCIOUS. TENDER,, ENOKMOUS 

 MAKPvOW PEAS IN 



EAKLY JUNE 



AS SOON AS YOU HAVE HERETOFORE 

 HAD THE ORDINARY EARLY KINDS. 



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HENDERSON'S 



PROSPERITY PEA. 



THE EARLIEST and SWEETEST 

 WRINKLED MARROW PEA GROWN1 



Thomas Laxton Pea. 



A FINE NEW EARLY WRINKLED MARROW. 



An extra early wrinkled Marrow Pea that has 

 proven to be a valuable addition to this class. The 

 plant grows about 3 feet high, resembling that of 

 Prosperity, though a little darker in color and of 

 vigorous hardy constitution, enabling it to be sown 

 with first earlies, coming in but three or four 

 days later than these round hard-shell sorts. It is 

 a heavy and reliable cropper, of uniform, long, 

 straight, square-ended, dark green pods, which are 

 well filled with 7 to 8 large, rich-flavored, wrinkled 

 marrow peas, which are also of a deep green color, 

 adding to their attractiveness when served on the 

 table. Thomas Laxton is a good, reliable pea, uni- 

 formly constant to type and about as early as Pros- 

 perity, though some report it 3 or 4 davs later. 



Price, 10c. pkt., 25c. pt., 40c. qt.,$2.75 pk., $10.00 

 bush. 



HIS grand, extra early, large-podded, 

 wrinkled marrow Pea — introduced 

 into America by us in 1897 — has 

 each year increased in popular favor, not 

 only steadily but with whirlwind rapidity. 

 "Once grown it is thereafter indispensable," 

 is the way one of our customers puts it, 

 and it would seem as if every one who 

 plants our Prosperity Pea recommends it 

 to his neighbors, for the demand upon 

 us for the seed has annually increased to 

 such an extent that we have never yet 

 been able to reserve a sufficient supply 

 for stock seed purposes to allow us to 

 catch up with the demand. 



The distinctive merits of Henderson's 



Prosperity Pea over any other variety are 



its extreme earliness combined with its 



abundant production of immense pods, 



each filled with from 6 to 10 true, large, 



wrinkled marrow peas of the most delicious 



flavor — as large, as sweet and as tender 



as the finest late wrinkled marrow pea 



grown. When one considers that peas of this superior size and quality are 



ready for picking only a day or two later than the little round-seeded 



hard-shell "Extra Earlies," one realizes what a valuable acquisition 



our Prosperity Pea really is. 



The vine of Prosperity is of vigorous, robust growth, about 2\ feet 

 high, heavy-stemmed with luxuriant healthy foliage; it bears uniformly 

 large, handsome pods of large and luscious peas, and although it commences 

 bearing so very early it continues for a long time; the peas also remain 

 sweet and tender for some time after they are fit to pick. (See cut.) 



Price, 15c. pkt., 25c. pt., 45c. qt., $3.00 pk., $11.00 bush. 



PURCHASERS PRAISE PROSPERITY PEAS: 



" Your Prosperity Peas we have used the last 3 years and they outrank all peas we have ever 

 grown." JOHN S. RUSSEL, Woodfords, Maine. 



" I really feel that it is due you to tell you that we had our first peas of the season — your 

 Prosperity — for dinner on Decoration Day. Our garden has a N. W. exposure and ilie season was 

 dry — notwithstanding this their growth was remarkable, and the pods fat and full." 



MRS. FRANCIS DARR, Gladstone. N. J. 



" Tlie Prosperity is certainly a fine pea, and very early, 

 days from planting." 



I had them on the table in iust 41 

 W. O. CHURCH. Wolcott, N. Y. 



" We think your Prosperity Peas are grand, and every one that has eaten them thinks so, too." 



Miss IDA A. MELLEN, McLean. N. Y. 



"Henderson's Prosperity Peas are most delicious to taste and beautiful to look upon. I 

 never saw such peas. Don't think we shall plant any other hereafter. " 



Mrs. J. E. RINGLAND, W. Woodstock, Conn. 



"Had elegant success with your Prosperity last season; the quality was superb." 



B. C. PACKER. Lock Havet 



"Your Prosperity Peas proved prolific; the many pods dei'eloped a length of 4 l & :■ 

 and, when shelled, turned out from eight to ten large peas from a pod: they were a surpi 

 earliest large pea 1 ever knew. It is the sweetest, tenderest and most delicious pea I evet 



JAMES R. SI iUSi ' Wis. 



PEAS, BEANS and CORN we do NOT deliver free, but will do so if 5c. per pt. or 10c. per qt. is added to the price. 



