FAMOUS ROCK RIVER VALLEY SEED FARMS 
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ALL FIELD ROGUED, AND HAND PICKED 
PIONEER 
Once used, always used. Height lb 
Iq to 20 inches, habit dwarf, stocky and 
vigorous; color dark green. The most 
robust grower we know of; an import- 
ed variety which tested out in our 
trials better than any other sort of 
its class. This Pea comes in about 
the same time as the Thomas Laxton 
not so large but twice as prolific, just 
the Pea for the market or private gar- 
dener. Give it a trial. Packet, 5 cents; 
'4 pint, 10 cents; pint, 18 cents; quart, 
35 cents, postpaid. 
BLISS ABUNDANCE 
Grows about 30 inches high. Vine 
very strong and vigorous, branchir. . 
to such an extent that they may bet 
ter be called bushes than vines. The.so 
are hterally loaded with long pod:; 
well filled with from six to ten large 
sweet peas. The whole crop maturing 
so nearly at one time, its great pro- 
ductiveness, and its large, dark-green 
pods, make Bliss' Abundance a very 
popular variety both with the canner 
and the market gardener. Our stocl- 
of this popular variety is unusualb 
fine. Packet, 5 cents; !4 pint. 10 cents; 
pint, 17 cents; quart, 30 cents, post- 
paid. 
ALASKA 
TRUE AMERICAN WONDER 
TRUE AMERICAN WONDER 
This is a first-rate wrinkled pea of dwarf 
habit, with vines less than a foot high. It 
is better suited to the private garden than 
for marltet purposes; in fact, it has taken 
the place in the private garden once oc- 
cupied by Tom Thumb, and has practically 
eliminated that once famous sort. Amer- 
ican Wonder is one of the earliest of the 
wrinkled varieties. It is quite distinct from 
all other peas in habit of growth and ap- 
pearance, the vines being unusually robust 
and stocky. In favorable weather and soil 
it will mature in the remarkably short 
period of 42 days. See cut. Packet, 5 cents; 
/j pint, 10 cents; pint, 18 cents; quart, 33 
cents, postpaid. 
SELECTED FIRST AND BEST 
Early, productive and hardy, with a strong 
vigorous vine, whicli is light in color and 
uniform in growth, 214 to 3 feet in height 
and bearing straight pods 2'A to 254 inches 
long: round, light in color and blunt at the 
ends; seed round, rather small, and -white 
in color. Packet, 5 cents; "4 pint, 10 cents; 
pint, 17 cents; quart, 30 cents, postpaid. 
SUTTON'S EXCELSIOR 
An early, wrinkled pea, one of the largest 
podded of the dwarf varieties. It is also 
one of the most vigorous in growth of vine 
and is unsurpassed in quality. The pods 
mature very nearly as early as those of 
Nott's Excelsior, but are broader and with 
the foliage distinctly lighter green. Packet, 
5 cents; 'A pint, 10 cents; pint, 18 cents; 
quart, 35 cents, postpaid. 
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ALDERMAN 
EARLY ALASKA 
\ variety of remarkable earliness and 
hardiness. It is a good yielder and produces 
pods of good size and darlt green coloi-, 
which are well filled with round, smooth 
peas of splendid flavor. Height, 2 feet. The 
color of the dried pea is green. It ripens 
evenly; one picking will nearly clean oft the 
crop. Packet, 4 cents; % pint, 8 cents; 
pint, 15 cents; quart, 28 cents, postpaid. 
HORSFORD'S MARKET 
GARDEN 
The vine is of medium height, hardy and 
very productive, giving the greatest num- 
ber of pods of any on our list. Foliage 
dark green, leaves small. Pods contain five 
to seven medium sized, sweet, dark green 
peas which retain well their color and 
sweetness after canning. Packet, 5 cents; 
Vi pint, 10 cents; pint, 17 cents; quart, 30 
cents, postpaid. 
ALDERMAN 
This comparatively new Pea is in many 
respects the best early main crop of the 
valuable Telephone type. The vine grows 
nearly five feet high, is dark green, similar 
to Duke of Albany, and about the same in 
season. The peas are of largest size and 
unsurpassed in quality. Market garden- 
ers are demanding the large-podded, dark 
colored sorts which retain their fine appear- 
ance even after shipping a long distance. 
The Alderman answers these requirements 
and furthermore is the most productive 
variety of this class. See cut. Packet, 5 
cents; '/a pint, 10 cents; pint, 17 cents; 
quart, 30 cents, postpaid. 
