VEGETABLE SEED NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES. 



TH E TRUCKER'S FAVORITE. 



HENDERSON'S FIRST OF ALL PEA. 



The Finest First Early Extant. 

 The Heaviest Cropper. 



The Most Uniform in Ripening. 

 A Money-Maker for the Trucker. 



Few vegetables have held their place in the public esteem for so many years as our First of All Pea. It stands to day unrivalled, either 

 as a first early or main crop pea, indeed we do not think we are wrong in claiming that it is used to a greater extent than any other variety in any 

 of the seasons in which peas can be obtained. It is the only type of pea which can safely be used at all seasons, and there is none approaching it 

 which can be used in such a variety of climes and over so great a latitude; it has grown with equal success in the coldest and warmest climates, 

 apparently having the power to resist the extreme climatic conditions possessed by no other type. Since we sent this out there have been many 

 attempts at imitating it, but the enormous increase of sales gives silent testimony to the acknowledged superiority of Henderson's First of Ail 

 over all would-be competitors, and it stands to-day a money-maker for the trucker and the delight of the amateur. A description of so well- 

 known a pea seems almost out of place here, yet for those who are now receiving this catalogue for the first time, we append a description. 



Its first important feature is its extreme earliness. It comes into bearing fully a week ahead of any other variety, thus ensuring to the 

 trucker the advantage of marketing his produce so much earlier than those who do not grow it. It is also exceedingly productive, the sketch 

 which we here show being no stretch of the imagination, but was taken from a photograph of a crop which is by no means uncommon. The vines 

 are vigorous and dwarf, never exceeding 24 feet in height, so that no brushing or staking is necessary, though in private cultivation it is a decided 

 help, and, of course, greatly economizes space. Another very important feature for the trucker is the fact that the entire crop can be gathered 

 at one picking, and every trucker will realize at once the economy in labor in growing such a pea. Moreover, the stock which we are sending out 

 to-day is far superior, owing to constant and watchful selection by which we have been able to eliminate from it every undesirable feature, such a.s 

 small double pods, irregularity in height, and weak spindly habit, which forms so large a part of the crop of many so-called First Earlies. (See cut.) 



In sealed bags, 20c. per quart, $1.00 per peck, $3.50 per bushel. 



My First of All peas were from ten to fifteen days earlier than any other far- 

 mer's in my seciion who did not plant Henderson's peas; and they are the best peas I 

 ever planted, and I have tried many varieties. JOHN SIMKINS, Wilmington, N.C. 



A customer to whom we sold some of Henderson's First Of All peas, re- 

 marked that he had marketed one hundred baskets of peas from one bushel planted, 

 and this at a season when the crop with his neighbors was almost an entire failure. He 

 sold his one hundred baskets for $60.00. which txplains that the q aiity was good and 

 the earliest in market in Jersey. E. J. NOWLAND & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Your First Of All peas, planted April 15th, ripened the end of June, and the 

 seed planted on the same bed July :o;h, or ahout two weeks after it was gathered, 

 gave another crop of ripe seed quite as good as the first and was ripe during the fore- 

 part of October. JOHN F. VV1ELANDY, Sante Fe. N. M. 



Your First Of All peas beat any I ever saw in the pea li.-.e of over fifty years 



cultivation. Well they might be called Peter Henderson's First of All 



alter the noble founder of your seed house. All of your seeds are doing splendidly. 



JOHN WM. HUBBAKD, Norfolk, Va. 



"WE DELIVER FREE to any Post Office or Railroad Express Office in the United States, (regardless of quantity), all Vegetable 

 Seeds offered by weight (except where noted) in this catalogue, that is, by the packet, ounoe, £ lb. and lb If Peas, Beans or Corn are 

 desired by mail, add 10 cts per quart for postage. 



Half a pound will be supplied at pound rates; half pecks at peck rates ; half bushels at bushel rates. When packets are wanted and they 

 are not here priced, we will furnish, but at Retail Catalogue prices. 



Special quotations to large buyers of Peas, Beans, Corn, Potatoes and Onion Sets on application. 



