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SElLECT LIST OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



ARRANGED AND CLASSIFIED ON AN ENTIRELY NEW PRINCIPLE, AND EMBRACING ALL THE BEST VARIETIES 

 OF VEGETABLES IN CULTIVATION, AND ESPECIALLY SUCH AS ARE MOST APPROVED OF IN COVENT GARDEN 

 MARKET. 



CULTURAL DIRECTIONS ARE PRINTED UPON EVERY PARCEL OF SEED. 



All Vegetable Seeds priced " per packet " are sent fast paid , or carriage allowed, howroer small the amount of the 

 order : by this arrangement purchasers arc enabled to obtain small quantities of really superior seeds from our 

 Warehouse without incurring the expense of carriage. 



CARRIAGE ALLOWED UPON ALL ORDERS FOR VEGETABLE SEEDS BY WEIGMI OK MEASURE, WHEN THE 



AMOUNT IS 2IJ. AND UPWARDS. 



Section I.— LEGUMINOUS PLANTS, do. 



PEAS. 



The arrangement and descriptive matter are the results of our personal observations, at our o^un Experimental 

 Sample Grounds, and the Chisuiici gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society. 



Division I.— THE EARLIEST ROUND SEEDED PEAS. p„ qt. 



If sown from November lo February, will be ready to gather in May and June. s. d. 



First Crop, syn. Ringleader, the earliest variety yet introduced, 2 ft 1 4 



Improved Sangster's No. 1, syn. Sutton's Improved Early Champion. In our Experimental Grounds this 



proved one of the best of this Section, long-poddcd and very productive, 2i ft i o 



Taber's Early Perfection, syn. Dickson's Fu'st and Best, a few days later than " First Crop," 3 ft i o 



Daniel O'Rourke, syn. Sangster's No. i, a fine early variety, 2^ ft o 10 



Beck's Gem, syn. Sutton's Tom Thumb, an excellent pea for early forcing and for small gardens, ift i o 



Castes' Kentish In'victa (new), described as the earliest " Blue Pea, " and better flavoured thau the white 



varieties, also described as earlier than Daniel O'Rourke (?) 2 6 



American Comet, Carter's Early, Hooper's Rival, Perkins Improved, etc is. to 2 o 



For " First Crop ' ' Wrinkled Marrow Peas, see Division I V. 



Division II.— SECOND EARLY ROUND SEEDED PEAS. 



If sown from January to April, will be ready to gather in June and July, 



Auvergne, syn. Dickson's Favourite, long well-filled pods, a good succession to the above section, 4 ft. ... o 10 



Bishop's New Long-podded Dwarf, a fine branching variety, with long, well-filled pods, \\ ft i o 



Blue Surprise, Carter's, or Fairbeard's, fine flavoured, and a good cropper, 4 ft i o 



Champion of Paris, syns. Paradise and E.xcelsior Marrow, an excellent second early, 4 ft i o 



Essex Rival, syn. Ringwood Marrow, a first-rate variety and a heavy cropper, 3.J ft i o 



Hundredfold, " The Cook's Favourite" (new), an exceedingly heavy cropper, with remarkably fine pods of 



a dark blue green, 4 ft per pint, ij-. 3^., 2 o 



Laxton's Prolific Long' Pod, a heavy cropper, with long, well-filled pods, 4 ft i 6 



„ Supreme, a new gi-een Marrow, with extremely long scimitar-shaped well-filled pods, which are 



produced in such quantities as literally to hide the foliage, 4 ft per pint, \s. ^d-, 2 o 



,, Quality (new), said to be a good pea 5 o 



„ Quantity (new), described as a heavy cropper and of good quality 5 o 



Princess Royal, a most jiroductive first-class variety, with long well-filled pods, ft i o 



Prizetaker Green Marrow, a productive variety, with dark green pods, 4 ft o 10 



Paradise Marrow, Leicester Defiance, Blue Excelsior, Bellamy's Marrow, 'Woodford's Marrow, Blue 



Prussian, etc %d. to i o 



Division UI.— ROUND SEEDED PEAS, SUITABLE FOX MAIN CROP. 



If sown from February to May, will be ready to gather from the ?niddle of July to the middle of August. 



Blue Scimitar, a well-known and esteemed variety, very productive, zh ft o 10 



Bur'bridge s Eclipse, a dwarf robust growing variety, with well-filled pods, 2 ft i o 



Flack's 'Victory, syn. Bedman's Imperial, branching, productive, and of fine flavour, 3 ft o g 



Victoria, syn. Waterloo Tall Marrow, large pods, fine-flavoured, and very productive, 6 ft i o 



'Waterloo Dwarf Branching Marrow, a productive fine-flavoured late dwarf variety, i ft 2 o 



In addition to the first-class round seeded Peas enumerated in the three preceding Sections, we can supply all the 



other sorts advertised. 



Division IV.— THE EARLIEST 'WRINKLED MARROW PEAS. 



If sown in March or April, will be ready to gather in June and July. 



Little Gem (McLean), very dwarf and full-flavoured, as early as " First Crop," and being of miniature 



growth, is a first-class variety for early forcing, i ft 2 o 



Advancer, a fine early green marrow, comes in a few days after Daniel O'Rourke, ft i 6 



Nutting's No. 1, a new early dwarf marrow of excellent flavour and prolific, ft 2 o 



„ Multum in Parvo, an improved variety of Little Gem, with larger and broader pods, more pro- 

 ductive, and quite as early, i| ft 2 6 



Laxton's Alpha (new), ' ' The First Crop " of the Wrinkled Marrows : this is an important acquisition, being 

 one of the earliest peas, and remarkable for its fine flavour and long well-filled pods which are pro- 

 duced in great abundance, had a First-class Certificate from the Fruit Committee of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, 3 ft per pint, 3^. 6^/., 6 o 



Division V.— SECOND EARLY WRINKLED MARROW PEAS. 



// sown in March and April, will be ready to gather in July and August. 



Best of All (McLean's), described as of robust growth, remarkably fine flavoured and productive, 2 ft. ... 5 o 



Champion of England, an abundant cropper, fine flavoured, and a first-class variety, 4 ft i o 



Forty-Fold, a fir.st-class fine-flavoured productive variety, wit)i long well-filled pods, 4 ft i 6 



Ne Pltis Ultra, peas dark green, and of very superior flavour, a first-class variety, 6 ft i (> 



Prince of Wales (McLean), a first-class variety, fine cropper, and fine flavour, 3 ft i 0 



Wonderful, an excellent rich-flavoured productive pea, 3 ft 2 o 



Kentish Hero, General Havelock, General Windham, Clarke's Princess of Prussia, Queen of tho 



Marrows, CuUlngford's Champion, etc i^. (:,d. to 2 6 



