Alpha. A fine wrinkled early blue pea. 
Good cropper; fine flavor; about 2.1- feet; 
needs brush. 
McLean's Advancer is one of the very 
best second early peas I know of. Grows 
about 2{- feet. I do not bush it and always 
have good results; large pods and large 
peas; good flavor, and fills the basket 
quickly. 
Clia.mi ion of England is so long and so 
'veil known that it needs no word of praise 
from me. I grew it nearly forty years ago 
in England. I had it here last year, and I 
am certain it holds it own. I almost think 
my last year’s Champion peas were better 
and finer than I had in the days long ago. 
I might have mentioned a great many 
more. I will however mention one I got 
once from a New York seed store, Laxton's 
Superla tive , at the superlative price of $1.50 
for a quarter of a pint. Well, I brushed 
them about five feet high, and they went 
to the top, doubled down again, came to 
the ground and doubled up again, so 1 
dropped them. Those peas and CompFn’s 
Surprise potatoes at $8.00 per pound were 
ihe worst investments I ever made in 
seeds. I may tell you here that I am an 
old man. I have been a gardener over fifty 
years, and at present ant engaged in rais¬ 
ing vegetables for the New York market, 
my son and son-in-law doing the active 
part of the work. As you are young and 
seemingly well started in business, I wish 
you every success. Yours Truly, 
•John Marshal!,. 
Bergen Go., N. J. 
Remarks. —The ideas of our correspond¬ 
ent coincide very closely with our o'vn ol) 
nervations in regard to the “best neas.” 
We have this season endeavored to offer 
only what we believe to be the very best, 
and we think our list a more select one 
than can be found elsewhere* The pea 
which we offer as “Cleveland’s First and 
Best,” we are told by Mr. Cleveland, the 
grower, is identical with that which lie 
grows for Peter Henderson & Co., as “Hen¬ 
derson’s First and Best,” for D. M. Ferry 
& Co., as “Ferry’s First and Best,” for 
Landretli, as “Landreth’s Extra Early.” for 
James Vick, as “Vick's 'Extra Early,” for 
SiHey & Co , as “Sibley’s First and Best,” 
for Buist, as “Buist’s Extra Early,” etc. 
Why these gentlenv-'n do not unite in 
calling it by one name, instead of multiply¬ 
ing varieties without a distinction, we do 
not know. We think our strain of Phil¬ 
adelphia Extra Early preferable to Dan 
O' Rourke. and as they are very closely 
allied we do not care to catalogue both. 
Though not in our list, we can supply the 
Telephone at same price as Stratagem and 
Pride of the Market. All three of these 
new peas are undoubtedly real acquisitions. 
We do not think the two latter identical as 
our correspondent implies. Of the older 
sorts we think the Alpha , McLean's Ad¬ 
vancer and Champion of England worthy' 
of all the praise he bestows upon them, and 
more, and the Yorkshire Hero , Blue Im¬ 
perial and Premium Gem are worthy to 
have received a good word with the others, 
for they are all excellent. 
Few people sow enough peas. Instead 
of a 2-07.. packet, try putting in a quart or 
even a peck of a kind and see if it don't 
pay. As quarts are supplied by express at 
peck rates, the seed is of small expense 
compared with tke pleasure and profit 
which is sure to come from a liberal plant¬ 
ing. I. F. T. 
Mixed Vegetable Seeds. 
The idea of mixing together different va¬ 
rieties of the same species of vegetable 
seeds originated with us, and we are, so 
far as we know, the only seedsmen who 
offer such seeds. The plan has met with 
such favor during the two years in which 
we have given it a trial we shall continue 
it. These seeds are not mixed in growing, 
but equal quantities of different varieties 
of pure seeds are mixed before being put 
up for sale. These mixed seeds are cal¬ 
culated for small private family' gardens, 
and not for the use of Market Gardeners, 
who. of course, would consider it a great 
damage to have his seeds mixed. Few 
private gardens are large enough to afford 
room for more than two or three kinds of 
cabbage for instance, and as they ripen and 
are used the succession is short. But if a 
single packet or ounce of our mixed cab¬ 
bage seed be sown the result will be eight- 
