CARTERS’ 
HAND-PICKED PEAS — Latest Variety. 
CARTERS’ MICHAELMAS PEA. 
The only late Pea awarded honours in the Royal Horticultural Society trials, 1896. 
Photographed, from Nature and Copyrighted by J. C. <t Co. 
Photograph taken Four Days after Michaelmas. 
Carters Michaelmas Pea.— For many years past we have conducted experiments in our Pea trials, with the 
object of establishing a stock which shall provide the table with “ Green Peas ” beyond the period hitherto furnished by the varieties in 
cultivation, and we have now succeeded in fixing the character of a Pea which quite oversteps the boundary hitherto set by the times 
and seasons, and offer to the public our Michaelmas Pea as an absolutely distinct Pea. Late varieties of Peas of past fame have been 
late mainly by reason of their strawy character, and consequent tardy development to maturity, but in Carters’ Michaelmas Pea the 
constitution of the Pea is not run through in straw, but we have fixed a dwarf bushy growth of 2§ feet, which holds back its natural 
force and throws it into the pods; consequently, while being very prolific, its colour in pod is of the deepest green, and its pods are 
large and well filled. We have proved this Pea to possess a reserve of strength which will enable it to resist the drought and the 
mildew to a degree hitherto unknown in a Pea, and to preserve the sweetest flavour in the Peas for table, after other varieties have 
become hardened, dry, and mealy. 
Report upon Carter s’ Michaelmas Pea, Roval Horticultural Society, iSt) 6 . 
11 Carters’ Michaelmas. — Though the crop was by no means ready a few pods 
were sufficiently advanced for testing the quality, and the luxuriant green of the 
plants and their freedom in bearing, lead the Committee to regard this Pea as a late 
variety of much promise ; it was certainly distinct from all others, and had withstood 
the drought well ."—Journal of Horticulture. 
An eminent cultivator, in Co. Durham, writes : — “ Carters’ Michaelmas Pea 
stood the dry weather well. This is a most useful variety, and I am now gathering a 
second crop, September 14th. It stood the dry weather better than any other Pea in 
the trial of 20 sorts.” 
. Peas. This season Carters’ Michaelmas Pea has again asserted its 
superiority as a late Pea, and on October nth we gathered a nice dish. I have had 
several other late varieties on trial, and treated precisely the same, but these have 
gone, having given their last supply about the middle of September. On the 
Michaelmas Pea there were plenty of blooms and pods, until the frost of the 6th and 
7th inst. The older varieties, such as Ne Plus Ultra and British Queen, are good, 
but have not the satmina of the newer varieties. This season, in the month of 
August, we had a splendid lot of high quality ; but with the advent of wet weather 
these latter varieties were soon in a state of collapse. The Peas of mere modern 
production are not so tall-growing as the old varieties, and are therefore better able 
10 withstand the variations of weather, and are not so prone to mildew.” 
W. A. Cook, Compton Bassett, in the Gardeners' Magazine , Oct. 23rd, 1897. 
This Pea naturally matures very late in the season, and we had great difficulty in harvesting the seed, consequently our stock 
is extremely limited. 
In sealed packets, price 2s. per pint ; 3s. 6d. per quart. 
CARTERS', 237, 238, & 97, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON.—I898. 
