T>. M. FERRY & CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
Bliss* American Wonder. 
Bliss’ American Wonder.—A variety whose stout, 
branching vines grow only about nine inches high, and 
are covered with long, well filled pods containing seven 
or eight large, exceedingly sweet, tender and well fla¬ 
vored peas, and are produced nearly as early as First 
and Best. We have taken particular pains in raising 
our stock, to be sure it was true and of the best quality, 
as some spurious stock is being offered. 
Minimum.—Similar in general appearance of vine 
to the last, but with smaller leaves and finer stems. 
The pods are quite distinct, smaller, curved, compressed 
The crop should he gathered as fast as it becomes 
ft for use. If even a few pods begi?i to ripen , young 
pods will not only cease to form , but those partly ad¬ 
vanced will cease to enlarge. 
All Wrinkled Peas arc superior to , more delicate 
in favor atid remain longer in season than the 
smooth sorts , for as in sugar corn , the wrinkled 
appearance indicates a greater amount of saccha¬ 
rine matter. 
EXTRA EARLY SORTS. 
Ferry’s First and Best.— Complaint is sometimes 
made that the different seedsmen offer the same pea 
under different names, but careful comparison convinces 
us that the stock we offer as First and Best is, indeed, 
the first and the best as to earliness and uniformity of 
ripening and for market gardener’s use, maturing all 
the pods in about forty-five days, so that frequently the 
ground can be ready for a second crop in seven weeks 
from planting. Vines small, about eighteen inches high, 
bearing three to seven straight, handsome pods, each 
containing six to eight medium sized round peas of good 
quality. 
5 . M. Ferry & Co’s Extra Early.—For family 
use this is probably equal to the preceding, though it 
does not ripen as evenly. Peas large enough to eat are 
afforded as early as from any variety, and the vines con¬ 
tinue bearing for a week or ten days, which, for family 
use, is a desirable quality. The Rural New Yorker Pea, 
which is offered at a high price, has proved on our 
grounds, very similar, but in no way superior, to our 
Extra Early. 
between the peas; green peas the sweetest of any sort 
in cultivation. The pods being small and thin the 
apparent yield is light, but this will furnish as many 
Peas as any of the dwarf sorts and they are so fine in 
quality that we recommend this sort for the home garden. 
Earliest of All. — This is one of the best of the early 
peas, but unfortunately there has been a great deal of 
spurious and inferior stock sold under the name and so it 
has not become so popular as it deserves. The stock we 
offer is true and is very uniform and even, ripening as 
early as most strains of Extra Early, maturing all of the 
crop for one picking, and the peas retaining their color 
after cooking. We have carefully compared this with 
the best stock of Alaska sold by the introducer and have 
found it to be earlier and more uniform, and we believe 
it to be the best extra early blue pea in cultivation. 
Vines eighteen inches high, bearing pods which are uni¬ 
formly straight and handsome, and well filled with peas 
of the best quality. 
Me Beth’s Pride. — An improved strain of Kentish 
Invicta. A little stronger growing and more productive 
than the Earliest of All, and not quite so uniform in 
ripening, but still a great improvement on the old Kent¬ 
ish Invicta, particularly in earliness and productiveness. 
Kentish Invicta. 
