JAMES J. H. GREGORY’S. SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOUGE. 
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CHOICE VARIETIES OF PEAS. 
Our English cousins are annually sending out niahy new varieties of 
peas as improvements over the older varieties; many of them have proved 
to be marked improvements, such as the Little Gem and Advancer, but 
of others I must say that though my aim and ambition is to introduce 
every new vegetable worthy of notice to my patrons, many of these new 
named sorts have but little beyond a new name to recommend them to 
the cultivation of our American gardeners. Why this is so is in part 
explained by the fact that our climate being hotter and dryer than that 
of England, new varieties do nor here show their distinctive character¬ 
istics as markedly as there, and hence may prove too little different from 
older sorts to be of any value this side the water. For this reason I 
introduced some new sorts into my annual Catalogue with hesitation 
while others I have not advertised until the good qualities claimed for 
them by our English Cousins can be proved by actual experiment to be 
transportable to this side the water. In my list of Hare and Novel will 
be found the most promising of the new varieties. 
Carter’s Early Premium Gem will be found a decided 
acquisition, being just about as early as Little Gem, while it is 
a better yielder with much larger pea and pods. It is of the 
same dwarf growth as Little Gem. Tom Thumb is full as 
early as Little Gem, rather more dwarf in habits of growth 
and more productive, but the pea is not so sweet. 
Por family use, I would particularly call the attention of my 
customers to Hair’s Dwarf Mammoth, Laxton’s Quantity, 
McLean’s Epicurean and McLean’s Premier as varieties 
that grow very stocky, with a dwarfish habit, and bear very 
large peas of the deliciously sweet or wrinkled class. 
Yorkshire Hero. This is one of the best of the new 
late peas, the pods growing to a large size and filling out 
plumply to the end, in this characteristic proving superior to 
some of the new varieties. It is a splendid cropper, and has 
all the sweet, marrow-like flavor of the wrinkled kinds. 
Early Winsiiip. This is a new American Pea, which 
promises well for a first early. It is well worthy of a trial by 
market gardeners in different sections. 
I have strongly recommended the McLean’s Advancer 
and my variety of Extra Early Dan O’Rourke Peas, as 
the most excellent varieties of their kinds for market gar¬ 
deners ; the Advancer, while it has the tenderness and 
sweetness of the Champion of England, surpasses that fine 
wrinkled pea, which has heretofore been considered our sweet¬ 
est and tenderest family pea, in being a fortnight earlier, while 
it grows but about two-thirds as high and crops fully as well 
It has the same wrinkled appearance as the Champion, and 
placed side by side could not be distinguished from it. 
The Extra Early Dan O’Rourke I recommend as the 
best of all varieties of Dan O’Rourke in the market; for, 
as most gardeners know, there are several varieties sold under 
that name, which differ in earliness, in yield, in dwarf habit 
and in size and fullness of pod. Carter’s. First Crop is 
about a week earlier than Dan O’Rourke, but the pods 
are smaller; still it is an excellent early sort for the kitchen 
garden, but of inferior value for the market gardener. A fur¬ 
ther trial, by market gardeners, has brought the Caractacds 
into high favor. The pods are of a good size for an early pea 
and well filled. 
Brown’s Early Dwarf Marrowfat Pea, will be found 
to be the earliest and most dwarf of all Marrowfats. 
The Early Kent I send out is the Early Kent in its 
purity. This pea has been greatly deteriorated of late years by 
careless cultivation, but the seed I send out will be found to 
have all the desirable qualities possessed by the Early Kent in 
its early days. I recommend it to market gardeners as a re¬ 
liable first early sort. 
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Prices if 
I have arranged with a reliable grower to sup¬ 
ply Cranberry Plants at the following rates:— 
Man f!rppr)PT 10 >CC0 plants by Express, freight paid by purchaser, sufficient for 
v/c ejjei one acre at two feet apart...$25 00 
If sent by mail, prepaid by me 
5,000.... “ “ “ “ per 1000 
1,000 ... “ “ “ “ 
100 . “ “ “ “ per 100 
Mansfield Creeper, a new upland variety, habit and growth different from other varieties— 
these are furnished by cuttings, or shoots—take root freely, and are as safe in planting 
as rooted varieties..Price per 100 
Full directions for cultivation sent with each lot ordered. 
30 00 
3 50 
4 00 
50 
00 
Eatont Black Bell Cranberry. I introduce this new variety 
Bell Cranbery e for the first time this season. Berries are not very large, but uniform in size, 
and of dark color. The plant is very productive. It ripens by the 5th of September, two or three weeks earlier 
than other varieties , which gives them a higher price in the market. Plants furnished by the 100 or 1000. Price 
per 100, per mail, $1.00 ; per 1000, per mail, $7.50, 
Grafting Wax. By Mail £0 cents per pound; 30 cents per half pound. 
