16 HOLMES' TESTED SEEDS OF KNOWN VITALITY AND PURITY 



New Dwarf Champion Pea Prolific Early Market Pea 



Erbsen Pisello 

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Culture. — For market, sow in single rows 1 inch apart and 2 to 3 inches deep, rows from 2 to 4 

 reet apart. In g-arden, sow in double rows 6 to 8 inches apart. Begin sowing extra-early varieties as 

 f "^^^ g-round can be worked in March; for a succession, every two weeks until June. One quart 

 to 100 feet of drill. One and one-half to two bushels per acre. 

 Those prefixed with a * are wrinkled varieties. 



Choice Varieties 



liberal-sized packagres of any variety, 10 cts. 



KQlMmnS' TEHIGB.EJl EXTRA-EARIVY. Grown in the far North and with 

 the selection of the earliest and choicest vines, this strain is so improved 

 that at fully bears out our claim as one of the earliest, most prolific and 

 even strains in existence, maturing so well together that sometimes a 

 single picking will secure the entire crop. Vines vigorous and hardy, 

 2 to feet high, bearing abundantly 



*NEW DWARP CHAMPION OP ENGLAND. Hardy, robust, vigorous; hand- 

 some green pods; quality unsurpassed. Height 26 inches 



*NEW LATE PEA, ALDERMAN. Fine, second-early wrinkled Pea. About 

 3% feet high, producing an abundance of very large, dark green pods, 

 filled with immense peas of delicious flavor 



NEW PEA, AMEER. (Called Large Alaska in the South.) Height 18 to 20 

 inches, dwarf; stocky; vigorous; dark green. Just the Pea for the market 

 or home gardener 



*NEW PEA, GRADUS. (Also called Early Telephone.) Ranks with any early 

 variety. Pods measure 4 to 4% inches, nearly round, and well filled with 

 eight to ten large, handsome peas; melting and sugary, retaining when 

 served its bright, vivid green 



*NE"W PEA, HOLMES' MASTERPIECE. (Extra-Early Large-Podded.) We 

 believe this to be one of the finest and most prolific large-podded Peas 

 ever introduced. Pods contain 8 to 10 perfectly formed peas 



*NEW PEA, THOMAS LAXTON. Large pods; delicious; matures as early as 

 the extra-early smooth Peas; being wrinkled, is much sweeter.. 



*NOTT'S EXCELSIOR. One of the sweetest grown; very prolific; dwarf 



PROLIFIC EARLY MARKET. Produces 80 to 50 per cent, more Peas than 

 any other early variety. Pods one-fourth to one-half longer than any of 

 the extra-early types. Seed somewhat wrinkled 



♦SUTTON'S EXCELSIOR. An early dwarf wrinkled Pea in the front rank 

 for earliness, yet with much larger, handsomer pods than any other dwarf 

 wrinkled. Height 12 to 14 inches; yields in great abundance, long, broad, 

 straight, pale green pods 



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