D. M, Ferry & Go's Descriptive Catalogue. 



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clean skin, and is easily distinguished by the leaves 

 arising from a cavity on the top or crown of the root. 



Fr. FersiL—Ger. Petersilie. 



A very useful vegetable for flavoring soups and stews, 

 and for garnishing. For flavoring, the green kaves are 

 used, or they may be dried crisp, rutjbed to a powder, 

 and kept in bottles until needed. 



Ci'LTURE.— It requires rich, mellow soil. The seed 

 is even slower than parsnip in germinating, and should 

 be sown as early in the spring as possible, and when the 

 plants are two inches high, transplant. The oftener 

 the plants 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 inches 

 or more in diameter. 



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

 beaiitifwl for:n and coloring, and is well adapted for 

 garnishing dishes on the table, xmd also makes a very 

 ornamental plant in the flower garden. 



pods 7uill not only cease to form, but those partly ad- 

 vanced will cease to enlarge. 



All WRiiNKLED Peas are superior to, more delicate 

 in flavor, and remain longer in season than the 

 smooth sorts, flor, as in sugar corn, the lurin/cled ap- 

 pearance indicates a greater amount of saccharine 

 matter. 



EXTRA EARLY SORTS. 

 Ferry's First and Best. Another st-ason (jf careful 

 comparison convinces us tliat t'.iis 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 ab^)ut 18 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 probably equal to the preceding, though it does 

 not ripen as evenly. Peas large enough to eat are 

 afforded as early as from any known variety, and the 



pods continue in bearing for a week or ten days, which 



is a desirable feature lor faniii\ use. 



Fine Triple Curled. 



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 

 ff)liage as finely curled. The leaves are bright green 

 above, paler beneath. Adn;irab!\ .ulapted for garnish- 

 in ij purposes. 



PEAS. 



Fr. Pois — (ler. 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. 



CuLiiKE. — 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 sowin.g all the 

 varieties comparatively ear'.y, depending for succession 

 upon selecting sorts that follow each other in ripenin.g. 

 The first sowing will be earlier if covered only one inch 

 deep ; the other sorts should be covered from two to si.\ 

 inches deep, the deep planting preventing mildew, and 

 prolonging 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 becomes 

 Jit /or use. fflez'en a fleiv pods begin to ripen, young 



Bliss' American Wonder. 



Bliss' American Wonder. — A highly improved 

 variety, whose stout, 1 ranching vines grow only about 

 nine inches high, and are covered with long, well hlled 

 pods produced nearly fis early as First and Best. The 

 peas are of the best quality. 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. — A round, blue pea, about two feet 

 in height, with straight, handsome, well filled pods. 

 Tested by the side of our E.xtra Early, it proved only 

 two days later ; it is the earliest of the blue sorts, and 

 superior in flavor to any of the white varieties. 



Laxton's Alpha. — The earliest 7t'r/«>t/<7?' pea known. 

 About three feet high ; seeds much indented and 

 wrinkled, light blue, and of delicious flavor; one of the 

 best in every respect. 



Ferry's Extra Early Tom Thumb.— Frflablished 

 by many years selection from the Common Tom Thumb 

 Vine dwarf, about nine inches high, so th.it it can be 



