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FAMOUS ROCK RIVER VALLEY SEED FARMS 
ALL FIELD ROGUED, AND HAND PICKED 
PIONEER ^ 
Once used, always used. Heij 16 C~ ^ J 
to 20 inches, habit dwarf, stoclj nd 
vigorous; color darlt green. The most 
robust grower we know o£; 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; 
Vi pint, 10 cents; pint, 18 cents; quart, 
35 cents, postpaid. 
BLISS ABUNDANCE 
Grows about 30 inches high. Vines 
very strong and vigorous, branching 
to sucli an extent that they may bet- 
ter be called bushes than vines. These 
are literally loaded with long pods 
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 stock 
of this popular variety i.s unusually 
fine. Packet, 5 cents; 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 market purposes: in fact, it has taken 
the place in tlie 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 js 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; 
■^2 pint, 10 cents; pint, 18 cents; quart, 33 
cents, postpaid. 
SELECTED FIRST AND BEST 
Early, productive and hardy, with a strong- 
vigorous vine, which is light in color an<l 
uniform in .growth, 2>4 to 3 feet in height 
and bearing straight pods 2^5 to 25^ inches 
long; round, light in color and blunt at the 
ends; seed round, rather small, and white 
in color. Packet, 5 cents; V% 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; 54 pint, 10 cents; pint, 18 cents; 
quart, 35 cents, postpaid. 
ALDERMAN 
EARLY ALASKA 
A variety of remarkable earliness and 
hardiness. It is a good yielder and produces 
pods of good size and dark green color, 
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 off the 
crop. Packet, 4 cents; 14 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; 
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. Tlie 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 iarge-podded, dark 
colored sorts which retain their fine appear- 
ance even after shipping a long distance. 
The Alderman answers these requirements 
and furtliermore is the most productive 
variety of this class. See cut. Packet, 5 
cents; Vz Pint, 10 cents; pint, 17 cents; 
quart, 30 cents, postpaid. 
