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D. M. Ferry & Co'S Descriptive Catalogue. 



transplanted when they are two inches high. The 

 oftener they are transplanted and cut back, the finer and 

 more perfect the leaves will be. When well grown, 

 each plant will form a handsome rosette eighteen inch- 

 es or more in diameter. 



Carter's Fern Leaved. — A new variety, of most 

 beautiful form and coloring, and is well adapted for 

 garnishing dishes on the table, and also makes a very 

 ornamental plant in the flower garden. 



Fine Triple Curled Parsley. 



Fine Triple Curled. — A fine, dwarfish, curled vari- 

 ety, which, when well grown, resembles a tuft of finely 

 curled moss. It is hardy, and slow in running to seed, 

 but liable to degenerate, as it constantly tends to in- 

 crease in size, 'and to become less curled. 



Myatt's Garnishing. — This variety is larger, and 

 the plant of stronger habit than the preceding, with 

 foliage as finely curled. The leaves are bright green 

 above, paler beneath. Admirably adapted for garnish- 

 ing purposes. 



PEAS. 



Fr. Pots. — Ger. Erbsen. 

 In spite of the multitude of varieties now in cul- 

 tivation, there are each year many new sorts 

 brought out, each of which is claimed to be su- 

 perior. We take great pains to secure and test on 

 our trial grounds samples of all these new sorts, 

 and present the following list as containing all 

 which are really desirable. 



Ferry's First and Best 



Ci'LTURE. — For early peas, the soil should be light, 

 warm and sheltered, but for general crop, a moderately 

 heavy soil is better. Sow as early as possible a few of 

 the earliest variety on warm, quick soil prepared the fall 

 before. The general crop can be delayed until later, 

 but we have met with better success from sowing all the 

 varieties comparatively early, depending for succession 

 upon selecting sorts that follow each other in ripening. 

 The first sowing will be earlier if covered only one inch 

 deep ; the other sorts should be covered from two to six 

 inches deep, the deep planting preventing mildew, and 

 piolonging the season. Fresh manure, or wet, mucky 

 soil should be avoided, as they cause the vines to grow 

 too rank and tall. 



The crop should be gathered as fast as it becontes 

 fit for use. If eve7i a few pods begin to ripen, youngs 

 pods will not o?ily cease to form., but those partly ad- 

 '■ va7iced will cease to enlarge^ 



All Wrinkled Peas are superior to^ 7nore delicate 

 171 flavor^ and remain longer in seaso7i than the 

 smooth sorts, for., as i7i sugar corn, the wrinkled ap- 

 pearance i7tdicates a greater a7iiou7it of saccharine 

 matter. 



EXXRA EARI.Y SOICXS. 



Ferry's First and Best. — Another season of careful 

 comparison convinces us that this is the earliest and 

 most uniformly ripening pea in existence, and decidedly 

 the best of any for market garden 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. Vine 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 & Go's Extra Early,— For family use, 

 this is probabl}' 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. — 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. 



Kentish Invicta. -Vines about two teet in height, with 

 straight, handsome, well filled pods. Peas superior in 

 flavor to the white sorts; when ripe of a dull blue color. 

 Tested by the side of our Extra Early, it proved only 

 two days later; it is the earliest of the blue sorts. 



Laxton's Alpha. — The earliest wrz'w/i'/^if pea known. 

 About three feet high ; seeds much indented and 

 wrinkled, light blue, very tender, and of delicious flavor; 

 one of the best in every respect. 



Ferry's Extra Early Tom Thumb.— Established 

 by many years' selection from the Common Tom Thumb 

 Vine dwarf, about nine inches high, so that it can be 

 planted in rows ten inches apart. Peas small, round, 

 and not of the best quality. 



Blue Peter.— Sometimes called Blue Tom Thumb. 

 A blue pea of fine quality ; as dwarf as the Tom Thumb, 

 and a great producer. An excellent pea in all respects, 

 and one of the best of the dwarf varieties. Peas large, 

 round, semi-wrinkled; dull blue in color. 



