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BUTZER’S SEED STORE, PORTLAND, OREGON 
GARDEN PEAS 
Every home garden can easily produce enough peas to supply the table for many weeks. For 
a continuous supply of this delicious vegetable, sow the early, mid-season, and late varieties 
as early in the spring as the soil can be prepared. Both wrinkled and smooth seeded types can 
be planted early. Besides sowing at the beginning of the season varieties which will mature 
one after another, also make succession sowings at intervals of 10 to 14 days up to about 
June 1st. Cover the seed 1 to 2 in. deep. Provide supports for the tall-growing varieties. One 
pkt. of seed will sow 20 ft. of row; 1 lb., 100 ft.; 120 lbs., 1 acre. 
GRADUS 
This extra early, wrinkled pea bears pods of large size, and combines quality with 
earliness. It is very hardy ; can be planted fully as early as the smooth peas; growth, 
vigorous and healtby ; vines 2% feet in height; very prolific. The quality and flavor are 
delicious, and the peas remain tender and sweet for a long time. These peas are planted 
by market gardeners around the vicinity of Portland more than any other kind. 
Pkt. 10c; Vz lb. 15c; lb. 30c; 5 lbs., $1.25, postpaid 
BLUE BANTAM 
Bears abundantly long, handsome pods fully as large and equally as early as Gradus, 
while the vines require no staking! Is unequaled for combination of extreme earliness, 
superb quality, and unusual productiveness. The dwarf vigorous vines average fifteen 
inches in height and carry really enormous crops of large, deep bluish-green pods. The 
handsome pointed pods measure four and one-half inches long and are tightly packed 
with eight to ten extra large peas. These peas are not only large in size, but of most 
luscious flavor. Pkt. 10c; Vz lb. 15c; lb. 30c; 5 lbs., $1.25, postpaid. 
LITTLE MARVEL 
The most satisfactory pea in the average home garden. The big point in its favor is 
that it remains in prime picking condition a week longer than the older sorts. Very 
productive, hardy, luscious and sugary. Vines 18 inches, pod dark green, well filled. 
Pkt. 10c; Vz lb., 15c; lb. 30c; 5 lbs., $1.25, postpaid 
BUTZER’S IMPROVED ALDERMAN 
The peas will give quicker returns if covered only one inch deep and where earliness 
is most important they may be treated in that way. Larger pods and more of them will 
be produced if the seed is planted in trenches three to six inches deep and covered with 
only one or two inches of soil. When the plants are five or six inches high fill the 
trench level with the surface. This will secure deep rooting, prevent mildew and pro¬ 
long the bearing season. If the peas be covered to the full depth at first, or if water be 
allowed to stand in the trenches, they will not germinate or grow well. 
GRADUS 
Alderman stands unique as the greatest and unrivaled wrinkled pea on earth. Very 
uniform in shape and always of vhe largest size, produced in profusion and so well- 
filled that Alderman is perhaps the greatest and largest yielder of all peas. The vines 
are of strong growth, attaining a height of 4 to 5 feet, foliage and pods are of a dark 
green color, often measuring 6 inches in length and are densely filled with large peas of 
unsurpassable flavor. Of all tall main crop peas Alderman is the finest and most desir¬ 
able for the home garden and for the market. 
Pkt. 10c; Vz lb. 15c; lb. 30c; 5 lbs., $1.25, postpaid 
Alaska—Also called “Earliest of All” ! The vines grow from 20 to 30 inches in height, 
bearing well-filled medium-sized pods. Matures practically the entire crop at one time. 
Most popular first-early pea for canning. 
Pkt. 10c; Vz lb. 15c; lb. 30c; 5 lbs., $1.25, postpaid 
INOCULATE ALL LEGUMES 
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A special garden size for peas, beans and sweet peas 
will insure you large, luscious peas and beans, and 
abundant sweet pea blossoms and gorgeous coloring. 
Packet, 10c, Treats Four Pounds of Seeds 
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PEPPER 
The culture of peppers is the same* as for egg plant and the plants need quite as much heat to perfect them. 
Guano, hen dung, or any other bird manure hoed into the surface soil when the plants are about six inches 
high, will wonderfully increase the product and also improve the quality of the fruit. 
California Wonder—This new variey resembles 
Chinese Giant in shape, but has much thicker flesh. 
The fruit will average 4 inches in diameter at the 
top, tapering slightly. It matures its fruit somewhat 
earlier than Chinese Giant and js very prolific. Color 
glossy dark green, turning to crimson. 
Pkt. 10c; Vz oz. 40c; oz. 65c 
Chinese Giant—This standard variety is larger than 
“Ruby King.” It is very prolific for so large a pepper. 
The productiveness may be increased by pinching off 
the first or “King blossoms.” The fruit grows 4 to 6 
inches broad on top and of equal length, and quite 
uniform in size; the flesh is unusually thick, mild 
flavor and makes a very fine salad sliced and served 
like tomatoes. The color is green turning to glossy 
scarlet when ripe. Pkt. 10c; Vz oz. 40c; oz. 65c. 
MIXED PEPPERS 
Mixed Peppers—A great many varieties mixed. 
Space will not permit to name them all. 
Pkt. 10c; Vz oz. 40c; oz. 65c 
OTHER PEPPER SORTS 
Cayenne—Long red; very hot. 
Tabasco—Hottest of all. 
Per pkt. 10c; Vz oz. 40c; oz. 75c 
Red Chili—Good hot pickling. 
RHUBARB or PIE PLANT 
Rhubarb, familiarly known as Pie Plant, or Wine 
Plant, is cultivated in gardens for its leaf stalks, 
which are used for pies and tarts. Immense quantities 
are now annually sold in all the large markets. No 
private garden should be without it. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; V* lb. 40c; lb. $1.50. Rhubarb roots, 
by express, not prepaid, 15c each; $1.50 per doz.; by 
mail, prepaid, 25c each; $2.00 per doz. 
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