James Vick’s Sons, Seedmen, Rochester, N. Y. 
Vegetable Seeds 
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PEA, NOTT’S EXCELSIOR 
Long Island Mammoth. One of the most productive Peas in the list. 
Pods large and handsome, and well filled with peas of excellent flavor. This 
is another one of those popular sorts for the market gardener, as the large 
pods soon fill a basket, requiring but little time for gathering the crop. 
Late or Main Crop 
Improved Stratagem. This is one of the verj r best of the large-podded 
sorts ; vigorous, productive, and of exceedingly fine quality ; a favorite with 
market gardeners everywhere. Vines two to two and a half feet. Packet, 
io cents ; ]/ 2 pt., 15 cents ; pt., 25 cents ; qt., 50 cents. 
Improved Pride Of the Market, a very robust, strong-growing 
variety, about two feet high, requiring no bushing or support; wonderfully 
productive ; fine in appearance, and quality most excellent. A fine Pea for the 
kitchen garden or for market use. 
Yorkshire Hero. A very fine, large, dwarf, wrinkled variety, of extra 
fine quality and very productive. Vines two and one-half feet high, bearing 
numbers of large well-filled pods. 
Champion of England, a handsome variety, popular ever}'where ; 
I one of the richest and best-flavored green wrinkled Peas. Five feet in height. 
Melting Sugar. This variety is used either shelled or cooked in the 
pod, like string Beans, and when young is very tender and sweet. It is 
but little known in this country, while abroad it is considered a great relish. 
Packet, 10 cents ; y 2 pt., 15 cents ; pt., 25 cents ; qt., 50 cents. 
American Champion (Duke of Albany), a remarkably hardy 
and vigorous variety, producing in great profusion its large pods, which are 
well filled with large and delicious peas. A valuable main crop sort. It is a 
tall grower, of branching habit, and should be sown thinly. Packet, 
10 cents; l / 2 pt., 15 cents; pt., 25 cents ; qt., 50 cents. 
Large Black-Eyed Marrowfat. Well-filled pods. Four feet tall. 
l / 2 pint, 10 cents; pint, 20 cents ; qt., 30 cents. 
Large White Marrowfat. Like the Black-Eyed Marrowfat, exten¬ 
sively grown as a field crop. y 2 pt., 10 cents; pt., 20 cents ; qt., 30 cents. 
Canada Field. For sowing broadcast. Bushel, $2.00. 
VICK’S SELECTED EXTRA EARLY 
PEA, VICK'S IMPROVED STRATAGEM 
OKRA or Gumbo 
A large, vigorous, tender plant, cultivated in the South for its young seed- 
pods, which are very nutritious, and are used in soups, stews, etc., and 
especially for making gumbo soup. Should be more generally grown in the 
North wherever it is warm enough for Sweet Corn. About the last week in 
May sow seed thinly, in drills one inch deep and three feet apart. When well 
up, thin the plants out to one foot apart in the row. Gather the pods when 
quite young (about an inch and a half long), before woody fibre is formed. 
One ounce of seed will sow fifty feet of drill. 
White Velvet (White Creole). Pods round, smooth, much larger 
than other sorts ; produced in great profusion. Packet, 5 cents ; oz., 
10 cents ; lb., 60 cents. 
Perkin’s Mammoth Long Pod. A dwarf but enormously productive 
variety. Pods long, slender, deep green, and remain tender much longer 
than most sorts. Packet, 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; y lb., 25 cts.; lb., 80 cts. 
