104 VEGETABLE SEEDS~( Continued.) 
State Nursery and Seed Co. 
Peas— Alaska. I'eas— I'rt iniuin Gciii. Peas— Horsfoi'd's Market Garden. 
PEAS— EXTRA EARLY WRINKLED— (Continued.) 
Premium Gem — The best and most popular dwarf, 
wrinkled variety, especially with market gardeners. It 
grows about 15 inches high and bears good-sized pods, 
which are filled with 6 to 8 peas of especially fine, sweet 
flavor. 
iXotts Excelsior— Resembles the Gem in habit, but more 
dwarf and uniform in growth. Height from \2 to 17 
inches. Pods are light in color, round, about 2% inches 
long. Fit for picking 56 days from planting. 
Little Mari'ei — A new dwarf, first early Pea of unusual 
value. Height of vine 18 inches, with dark green foliage. 
Small blunt, dark green pods. Fit for table use in about 
53 days. Valuable for family or market gardener's use. 
EARLY WRINKLED VARIETIES. 
Carter's Daisy — Early Dwiul' Telephone — Dwail, large, 
podded: needs no. brush. The striking features of the 
Daisy pea are its large pods and the way in which they 
are heaped up in ridges on the short, strong vinos. The 
pods 'are nearly double the size of American Wonder or 
Little Gem and are always well filled with large peas 
of most excellent quality. The vines are 16 to 18 inches 
high, and being strong and thrifty, require no support, 
making it an ideal variety for use where brush or stakes 
are not available. This pea is desirable on account of 
the fine appearance of the pods, and always finds a 
ready sale. 
Thomas Laxton — A heavy yi-flding good quality pea, grow- 
ing about 3 feet. Large pods and very full. Greatly 
grown for market purposes in eastern sections of the 
country. 
Laxtonian — The earliest large podded pea dwarf habit. 
Height of vine 1% feet, with dark green foliage. Large, 
Curved dark green pods of delicious flavor. This Pea 
is destined to be in the front rank for quality, size and 
productiveness in a few years. 
Horsford's Market Garden — A first class wrinkled Pea; 
second early. Height 24 inches. It is a profitable sort 
for market gardeners, as a single plant has been known 
to produce more than 150 pods. It is equally good for 
the home garden. The medium sized pods are borne in 
pairs, and are easily and quickly picked. 
Gradu-s — The most popular high quality, extra early, 
wrinkled pea. This remarkable pea is not only large and 
of the best quality, but is within two or three days as 
early as the small round, extra early sorls. Gradus is 
a wrinkled pea. growing about 30 inches high: the pods 
are of 'a bright green color, measviring 4 inches or more 
in lenglh, as lai'ge as Telephone, well filled with luscious 
peas, 8 to 10 or more in a pod. The peas are of the 
highest table quality and retain in a remarkable manner 
tbeir color and altraictixe appearance after cooking. A 
grand pea in all respects. 
MAIN CROP VARIETIES. 
Yorkshire Hero — Hardy, produ(;tive and upr.ghl in growth, 
bearing neai' the lop of I he stalk broad, pointed pods 
with peas of good quality. Foliage dark green, 23 lo 28 
inches in height. Pods 2'A to 3 inches long, blunt, light 
green in color. Fit to pick 67 to 73 days from planting. 
Seed large green wrinkled. 
White Marrowfat — Large peas of good flavor: grown as a 
field crop, they are very profitable feed for stock or 
hog feed; our stock is the true smooth seeded Marrowfat. 
For Prices See Red Insert Page 96 
