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tremely froliflc and bears its pods always in pairs; each vine throws out from fif- 
teen to twenty laterals 10 to 15 inches long, and on some of the best plants over 
one hundred and fifty pods have 
been counted. The seeds can be 
planted from three to six inches 
apart in the di'ills; in quality it is 
not excelled by any other, is second 
r early and best for main crop. At 
the Ohio experimental station 
tested two years ago, with twenty- 
eight of the leading varieties, of 
twenty-five plants of each kind, 
carefully harvested and the pods 
and the peas counted and the total 
product of each weighed, the result 
was that the shelled peas of the 
Market Garden weighed nearly 
twice as much as the heaviest crop- 
per of either of the other varieties 
and the pods considerable more 
than double the average of the 
twenty-eight tested. 
Extra Early Premium Gem Pea. 
— A valuable new variety, growing Extra Early Premium Gem. 
Stratagem Pea. 
about fifteen inches 
high and among the 
earliest dwarf green 
wrinkled sorts, requir- 
ing no sticks; the 
quality is unsurpassed 
but the most remarka- premier extra jsany peas, 
ble characteristic is in its wonderful prolitteness, as many as twelve pods appear- 
ing on a single stem. 
Stratagem Per. — Stratagem is an intermediate new variety, and claimed to be 
the best ever sent out; to be the Pea for everybody, whether rich or poor. It is 
