SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1899. 
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peas. 
This delicious vegetable is so 
much finer when freshly gathered 
than when allowed to shrivel for 
days in the market, that every 
family, if possible, should grow 
their own Peas. For early crop 
plant as soon as the ground can 
possibly be worked in the spring, 
and plant every two weeks there¬ 
after for succession until summer. 
Childs’ Morning Star— A new 
wrinkled Pea, earlier by a week 
than any of the small, round , 
varieties. This was the great¬ 
est vegetable novelty or 1894. j 
It is the earliest Pea grown by 
nearly a week. It is a fair- ! 
sized, wrinkled variety, and, | 
therefore, possesses the same ( 
delicious quality of the late j 
wrinkled kinds. For the first j 
time the fine quality of the | 
iate varieties is combined with 
extreme earliness. When this is once tried no 
other early Pea will be grown. Added to its other 
qualities it is exceedingly prolific and continues to bear 
longer than any other early sort. It grows 18 to 20 
inches high and does not require bushing. Mr. William 
Falconer, gardener to Charles A. Dana, and editor of 
Gardening, savs: "I ought to tell you about the‘Morn¬ 
ing Star ’ wrinkled pea you let me try here two years 
ago. I sowed it in single rows in light, warm soil about 
the end of March, when I sowed round peas and Alpha 
and American Wonder. It, astonished me by its earli¬ 
ness, coming in ahead, and it is a good cropper and of 
fine quality. Better still, itis the most reliable wrinkled 
pea tor fall use -sown August 1st—that I have ever 
grown.” Mr. ,T. Goody, of Clare, Suffolk, England, 
writes: “Your pea, ‘Morning Star,’beats any pea in 
England fora first crop.” Pkt.. 10c.: 3 pkts., 25c.; pint. 
35c.; quart, 60c. By express or freight, $1.25 per peck; 
$4.00 per bushel. 
Stratagem—The largest, showiest Pea of all. So distinct 
even in growth as to attract the attention of every vis¬ 
itor. Luxuriant, large-leaved foliage. with enormous 
great pods holding from 7 to 0 large square Peas, dark 
green in color, and of surpassingly rich flavor. It is not 
an early varietv, but does not turn “ mealy ” in the 
South, while still green, like the majority of late peas. 
Pkt., 10c.; pint, 30c.; quart, 55c. 
Childs’ Universal In Childs’ Universal we have a new 
sort destined to become the universal garden favorite 
the world over. It, was originated over ten years ago, 
since when it has been carefully selected and grown, 
until wc now have what we believe is the most perfect 
pea in cultivation. It combines a dwarf habit with fine 
quality and enormous productiveness, the three essential 
features all in one sort. It can be styled a half-dwarf, 
not. tall enough to require staking, yet branching freelv 
and producing vine enough lo give one of the largest 
crops any pea can yield. The Peas are of medium size, 
wrinkled and of exceedingly high flavor. It is medium 
early, and fine for succession if sown at intervals of two 
weeks. For a standard garden sort it must take the 
lead, being superior to Champion of England, inasmuch 
that it does not require staking. Per pkt., Klc.; pint, 
I 40c.; quart, 75c. 
Alaska—The best of all early round varieties, ripening 
ahead of all others, except Childs’Morning Star, and 
bearing great quantities of fine peas, richly flavored. 
A fine market Pea, as the whole crop matures at almost 
one time. Pkt., 10c.; pint, 30c.; quart, 40c. 
Champion of England—Still able to hold its own among 
all new comers as a Pea of superlatively fine quality. 
Late, and a heavy cropper. Unsurpassed quality. 
Pkt.., 10c.; pint, 20c.; quart, 35c. 
American Wonder- An early wrinkled Pea of exquisite 
flavor, ready for the table in thirty to forty days after 
planting. Grows only a few inches high. Pkt., 10c,; 
pint, 30c.; quart, 50c. 
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Everbearing—A fine sort for 1 he home garden, asit does not 
ripen its pods at one crop, but continues in bearing a long 
time. Fine flavor. Pkt., 10c.; pint, 30c.: quart, 50c. 
McLean’s Little Cem— An old standard Tom Thumb 
variety, still among the very best for a first crop Pea. 
Very hardy. Pkt., 10c.; pint, 25c.; quart. 40o. 
