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JAMES J. IL GREGORY & SON'S RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
JEF* Ti «=» — Continued. 
MR. REED’S NEW EARLY PRIZE. 
A cross between Tom Thumb and the Advancer. Grows 
eighteen inches high, being slightly taller than Premiun Gem, 
and, while equally early, it is decidedly a better cropper than 
either that or Tom Thumb. Pod large, heavy, and well filled; 
also equal to the wrinkled varieties in sweetness and flavor; it 
can be planted earlier than these without danger of rotting. 
Its combination of earliness, drawf growth, yield, and qual¬ 
ity, with the large size and good filling of the pod, insures its 
future. 
Writes Mr. O. H. Alexander, the well-known pea-grower, of Vermont: 
“ Haying tested Early Prize this season by the side of eighty varieties 
from all parts of the country, I consider it in all respects one of the best 
varieties in America.” 
Price, per bush., per express or freight, $5.00; per peck, 
$1.50; per qt., per express, 25 cts.; per qt., postpaid, 40 cts.; 
per pkg., 10 cts. 
This American pea is now so well known it hardly needs to 
be described. It is of excellent flavor, productive, and as 
early as the earliest of the wrinkled varieties. Fifteen pods 
have been counted on some vines, and nine large peas in some 
of the pods. The vine grows from six to twelve inches high, 
according to the soil and season. The rows need not be more 
than two feet apart. Price, per bush., $7.00; per qt., post¬ 
paid, 50 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
tmiFiciii, 
A tall, wrinkled marrow, of the best quality, a strong 
grower, and very productive. The pods are of the largest 
size, and contain from six to seven large peas. The rich, 
dark green color of the pods makes this pea sell well in the 
market; hence it has become very popular with farmers and 
gardeners. This and the Stratagem, with its large pods, will 
grow more or less small ones; this is characteristic of the pur¬ 
est stock. 
HANCOCK. 
Many of our fellow-seedsmen send out an extra early pea 
bearing their own name; though, as has been shown at *some 
of our experimental stations, there is no difference between 
the various kinds in earliness, yield, or any essential charac¬ 
teristic of a first-class early pea. Still, there is a good argu¬ 
ment for this, for all very early peas tend to deteriorate, and 
those seedsmen sending out one bearing their own name are, 
therefore, compelled to look closely after it, and keep it true, 
by which the public are decidedly the gainers. Were we to 
1 follow suit,” we should select either the Hancock or Bergen 
Fleet wing as the extra early. 
Messrs. Northrup, Braslan & Goodwin, the seedsmen, write us as fol¬ 
lows : “We had in our trial grounds nearly forty samples of extra early 
varieties of peas, as supplied by the leading seed-houses of America and 
Europe. Among these the Hancock was noticeable as to earliness, size of 
pod, and productiveness.” 
Bliss’s 
A new wrinkled variety, about a week later than the Ameri¬ 
can Wonder, bearing large, well-filled pods, containing about 
seven peas each. Plant grows to from fifteen to twenty inches 
in height. Excellent quality and very productive; branching 
habit. Price, per qt., postpaid, 40 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
KING OF THE DWARFS. 
We find that this variety grows a little taller than Little 
Gem, and that it is a day or two earlier. It is a very sweet 
wrinkled pea, a vigorous grower, and great bearer. Pods of 
average size. Price, per qt., postpaid, 50 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
McLEAN’S ADVANCER. 
This old standard still remains a fine variety to follow after 
either of the early varieties, coming to market in season for 
the Fourth of July dinner, and bringing Fourth of July prices. 
Price, per qt., postpaid, 40 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
Dwarf Champion. 
First class as a variety to follow the Advancer; very healthy 
and vigorous. This is another favorite with the market gar¬ 
deners of Long Island, where it is sometimes sown Aug. 1, 
as a second crop, being less liable to mildew than other sorts. 
Pods and peas large, quality very sweet and rich. Price, per 
qt., postpaid, 45 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
BERGEN FLEETWING. 
We have raised this new extra early variety on a large scale 
and are exceedingly pleased with it. The head picker says: 
“The Fleetwing yielded better than any of the early hard 
peas, including the Alaska and First of All.” We have raised 
these at the rate of 225 bushels to the acre. It is deservedly a 
great favorite with the market gardeners of Long Island. 
Pods and peas of good size; vines, two and a half feet. 
A. G. Case, Simsbury, Conn., writes: “The Bergen Fleetwing peas 
yielded enormously.” 
Hosford’s Market Garden. 
Of this pea, in our note-book, made a few seasons ago on 
our experimental garden, in which we test all new things, 
comparing them with standard sorts, we find the following 
entry: “A tremendous cropper, excelling, with a single ex¬ 
ception, every one of the forty-five varieties on trial; pods as 
long as Advancer, and as well filled. It grows nearly as tall 
as Advancer, but is a better cropper.” At the Ohio experi¬ 
mental station, tested with twenty-eight of the leading varie¬ 
ties, twenty-five plants of each kind were carefully harvested, 
the pods and peas counted, and the total product of each 
weighed. The result was, that the shelled peas of the Mar¬ 
ket Garden weighed nearly twice as much as the heaviest 
cropper of either of the other varieties, while the number of 
pods on the twenty-five plants were considerably more than 
double the average of the twenty-eight varieties with which it 
was tested. Grown by ourselves, on a large scale, we find 
that it leads, in bushels of green peas, any of the medium 
early sorts. The seeds should be planted from three to five 
inches apart in the drill. Price, per bush., per express, $4.50; 
per peck, $1.25; per qt., postpaid, 40 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
4®"The “American Coffee Berry.” 
Under this name this Japanese bean 
is being sold in the West at fabulous 
prices. It does not even belong to 
the coffee family of plants, still it is a 1 
fact, as we find by actual test, that 
when roasted and coarsely ground it 
tastes so nearly like Brazilian coffee 
the difference is scarcely perceptible. 
It certainly is the best of all substi¬ 
tutes for coffee yet found, and as 
there is nothing injurious about it, it 
being, on the contrary, the most 
nutritious of all vegetable products, 
and as it can be raised almost any¬ 
where where corn will mature, and 
yield from twenty to thirty bushels 
per acre, I believe that the time is 
not far distant when it will be quite 
generally raised as a substitute for 
the cheaper varieties of coffee. Like 
clover, it is a nitrogen collector. 
Some of the taller varieties give great 
promise of value for ensilage pur¬ 
poses, and the extraordinary richness 
of the seed makes them an excellent 
home substitute for cotton and lin¬ 
seed meal for feeding purposes. 
Cows are very fond of the ground beans. Price neroeek 
per express, $1.25; per qt., postpaid, 40 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts! 
FOR FULL PRICES OF PEAS SEE PRICE LIST. 
