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BEYER'S SEED CATALOGUE 
New Upland Cress 
A valuable new variety which I introduced first in 1886, and that has since 
become very popular everywhere. 1 1 is a hardy perennial, growing well on any 
soil: it starts its leaves very early in the spring. They are possessed of a water- 
cress-like flavor and used like them: later when the leaves get larger and plentier. 
boiled and treated like spinach, make 
a splendid dish. As it withstands 
freezing remarkably the leaves keep- 
ing green nearly a whole winter, it 
is splendid and valuable as feed for 
poultry, being greedily eaten by 
them: it will keep them not only in 
a healthy and thriving condition, but 
stimulates hens in the production of 
eggs, making them perpetual winter 
layers. As a honey plant it is un- 
surrassed. flowering earlier than 
others, and when bee feed is scarce 
and bees relish it as much as buck- 
wheat or clover. It is certainly do- 
serving of a place in every garden. New Upland Cress. 
Nott’s Excelsior Pea 
This excellent dwarf wrinkled Extra 
Early Pea is robust and vigorous, inclined 
to throw out laterals at the base of the 
haulmn, and produces in profusion long, 
handsome pods, closely packed with large 
peas of fine flavor. The pods are fully 
one-third larger than the American Won- 
der. containing six to eight fine large peas, 
grows 14 inches high, a decided acquisi- 
tion. 
Heroine Pea 
The Heroine is a medium early green 
pea wrinkled pea. grows uniformly about 
2'.j feet high, and is literally covered with 
well filled, long, heavy pointed pods. So 
striking and distinct is this variety that it 
would be picked out at once in a field with 
luu other varieties. The quality of this 
pea is simply perfection, of rich, buttery, 
marrow-like flavor: upon its intrinsic merits 
alone has fairly leaped into popularity. 
