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CARTERS’ 
HAND-PICKED PEAS—Latest Variety. 
CARTERS’ MICHAELMAS PEA. 
Tlie only late Pea awarded honours in the Royal Horticultural Society trials, 1896. 
Photographed from Nature and Copyrighted by J. C. Co. 
Carters’ Michaelmas Pea .—For many years past 
we have conducted experiments in our Pea trials, with the object of establishing 
a stock which shall provide the table with “ Green Peas ” beyond the period 
hitherto furnished by the varieties in cultivation, and we have now succeeded 
in fixing the character of a Pea which quite oversteps the boundary hitherto 
set by the times and seasons, and offer to the public our Michaelmas Pea as 
an absolutely distinct Pea. Late varieties of Peas of past fame have been, 
late mainly by reason of their strawy character, and consequent tardy development 
to maturity, but in Carters’ Michaelmas Pea the constitution of the Pea is not 
run through in straw, but we have fixed a dwarf bushy growth of 2| feet, 
which holds back its natural force and throws it into the pods; consequently, 
while being very prolific, its colour in pod is of the deepest green, and its pods 
are large and well filled. We have proved this Pea to possess a reserve 
of strength which will enable it to resist the drought and the mildew to a 
degree hitherto unknown in a Pea, and to preserve the sweetest flavour in. 
the Peas for table, aitcr other varieties have become hardened, dry, and mealy. 
This Pea naturally matures very late in the season, and we always- 
find great difficulty in harvesting the seed, consequently our stock is 
extremely limited. 
In sealed packets, price 2s. per pint; 3s. 6d. per quart. 
AN IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL. 
“ Late Peas.— This season Carters’ Michaelmas Pea has again asserted its superiority 
as a late pea, and on October nth we gathered a nice dish. I have had several other late 
varieties on trial, and treated precisely the same, but these have gone, having given their last 
supply about the middle of September. On the Michaelmas Pea there were plenty of blooms 
and pods, until the frost of the 6th and 7th inst. crippled them. Sturdy and Autocra' are very 
fine examples of late peas, and are of excellent flavour, and for peas to supply the table from 
the middle of August to the middle of September are not to be beaten. Late Queen is another 
admirable pea for a late supply, being of excellent quality, both as regards productiveness and 
table quality. The older varieties, such as Ne Plus Ultra and British Queen, are good, but 
have not the stamina of the newer varieties. This season, in the month of August, we had a. 
splendid lot of high quality ; but with the advent of wet weather, these latter varieties were soon- 
in a state of collapse. The peas of more modern production are not so tall-growing as the old 
varieties, and are therefore better able to withstand the variations of weather, and are not so- 
prone to mildew.”—W. A. C., in the Gardeners' Magazine , Oct. 23. 
Report upon Carters' Michaelmas Pea , Royal Horticultural Society . 
“Carters’ Michaelmas.— Though the crop was by no means ready a few pods were- 
sufficiently advanced for testing the quality, and the luxuriant green of the plants and their 
freedom in bearing lead the Committee to regard this Pea as a late variety of much promise ; it 
was certainly distinct from all others, and had withstood the drought well.”— Journal of 
Horticulture. 
An eminent cultivator in Co. Durham writes “ Carters’ Michaelmas Pea stood the dry- 
weather well. This is a most useful variety, and I am now gathering a second crop, September 
14th. It stood the dry weather better than any other Pea in the trial of 20 sorts.” 
“Last year I grew the ‘ Michaelmas’ Pea, a variety I saw in splendid condition in the- 
Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens at Chiswick a few seasons ago. In growth this is not 
unlike 1 Stratagem,’ but the pods are blunter and the Peas remarkable for their green colour and 
excellent table quality. The ‘Michaelmas’ grows 2 feet to 3 feet in height, and is well worth, 
room in all gardens where late Peas are valued.”—G. W., on “ Autumn Peas,” in The Garden - 
CARTERS'. 237, 238, & 97, HIGH HOLBORN. LONDON.-1900 
