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CARTERS’ EARLY MORN PEA. 
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Photographed at Messrs. Carters' Experimental Grounds and Copyrighted by J. C. <5e Co. 
POD OF CROSS BRED PEA, DAISY X LIGHTNING. 
FIRST YEAR’S RESULT. 
Unstinted praise has been accorded the 
introduction of this very fine early Pea. The 
small quantity that we were able to distribute 
last season went into the hands of capable and 
noteworthy gardeners, and the weighty evidence 
we are enabled to put into print of their 
experience with it is an enduring proof of its 
great merits. That it is a Pea which may be 
taken as a real advance in the first early section 
is an accomplished fact. Indeed, it is likely 
to misplace many of the small round-seeded 
kinds hitherto sown for this purpose. A rigid 
selection each season of the most approved 
plants has enabled us to bring the character of 
its growth into a convenient compass, so that 
it is now classed in the 3-feet division. The 
pod, whilst being produced out of doors early 
in June, is as fine in size as our well-known 
“Daisy.” 
THE HISTORY OF CARTERS’ EARLY MORN PEA. 
In 1887 we first offered Carters’ Lightning Pea as the earliest of the White round section in cultivation, an opinion fully confirmed 
by the testimony given in later Catalogues from some of the best-known gardeners in the country. Since that time we have had in hand 
many experiments with a view of bringing the sweet-flavoured marrowfat section in a line with Carters’ Lightning for earliness. 
In 1892 it was our privilege to introduce Carters’ Daisy Pea, the result of seven years’ patient work. This acquisition was the 
outcome of Carters’ Stratagem crossed with a Giant Marrow, and it is to-day undoubtedly the very best second early large podded 
marrowfat pea in cultivation. During the first year of its introduction we commenced operations between this variety and Carters’ 
Lightning, with a view to obtain a Pea as early as Lightning with the splendid pods of Daisy, retaining at the same time the sweet 
marrow flavour, and after five years of careful re-selection we obtained Carters’ Early Morn. 
The illustration represents an open dried pod gathered from the first season’s progeny of Lightning x Daisy. It will be 
observed that the seeds are not only variously shaped but they were also differently coloured, indeed each seed seemed so distinct that 
it became necessary to sow all of them the following season in order to discover the plant most likely to develop the characteristics we 
were seeking. 
Price in sealed packets, 2s. per pint ; 3s. 6d. per quart. 
STOCK VERY LIMITED. 
NEW PEA, CARTERS’ EARLY MORN — “ In your issue of July 
17th, page 436, in speaking of new early peas, your correspondent, Mr. W. A. Cook, 
refers to this pea in very glowing terms. Having grown it side by side with several 
new kinds, I can fully bear out all he writes about it, either as an exhibition variety 
or for general use. I believe it is destined to take a foremost place, and it is most 
prolific, and remains a long time in good condition ; the pods are very handsome, 
well filled, and the peas of excellent flavour. Another good point in its favour is that 
it continues to bear for a long season. I exhibited a dish on June 29th at the R.H.S. 
meeting, and from the same row this day, August 7th, we have picked a fine lot. 
Considering the long spell of dry weather, and that the variety was grown without any 
special treatment, this is a good record. I do not hesitate to say that it is the finest 
marrowfat pea I have ever grown.” — Edwin Beckett, Aldenham House Gardens, 
Elstree, in the Gardeners’ Magazine, August 21st, 1897. 
Mr. E. Burrell, Head Gardener to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of 
Albany, says : — “ A very fine pea, combining size and flavour with earliness, from 
the latter standpoint a contemporary of the first Earlies.” 
NEW EARLY PEAS.— “ Among the numerous varieties of early peas, I 
think Carters’ Early Morn is entitled to first place as the largest early pea yet sent out. 
With us it is a marvellous cropper, and produces pods equal to the largest Duke of 
Albany, and withal of a most excellent marrow flavour. In point of earliness is very 
little behind its dwarf companions. From a row sown on February Sth, 1897, we 
gathered on June 15th, and in nine seasons out of ten it would be much earlier, as 
this season has been one of too many wet and cold nights for early vegetables.” — Mr. 
W. A. Cook, in the Gardeners’ Magazine. 
Mr. J. Crawkord, Head Gardener to Colonel Thorpe, Coddington Hall, says : — 
“ No variety of pea, so far as I know, having such fine pods, is fit to pick so soon in 
the season.” 
Mr. J. Api.in, The Gardens, Hasfield Court, says “ Early Morn is the largest 
early pea that has ever come under my notice. Many of the pods contain ten and’ 
eleven peas. This pea is A I.” 
Mr. H. C. Prinsep, Head Gardener to the Hon. Mrs. Portman, Buxted Park, 
says : — “ Carters’ Early Morn is certainly a first-class early pea, one of the best of the 
long-podded type.” 
CARTERS', 237, 238, & 97, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON,— 1898. 
