GARDEN PEAS 
Green Peas quick from the garden 
will have all their delicious natural sug- 
ary richness, but keep them a day and 
some of it will be gone; the longer they 
are held the more they lose, and so 
do you. Even then, as bought in the 
markets, they may be good, but grow 
your own peas in your own garden if 
you would know just how good they 
really can be. And if you are growing 
your own potatoes, too, then dig a few 
of these when they are size of marbles 
to walnuts, and serve the new potatoes 
and the green peas together, creamed, 
or just with plenty of butter. As our 
pony friends might say, “It’s fair a 
reat’. 
ALASKA—You can sow it earlier than 
any other, and it is a quick grower, so 
it will give you the first picking. Small 
peas of good sweet flavor when picked 
young. Round-seeded. For first-early 
only, you won’t want it after the others 
are on. Market growers like it because 
it ripens so that it can all be harvested 
at one picking, as well as for it’s hardi- 
ness and earliness. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 
20c; 1 Ib.-35c; 2 lbs. 60c; 5 Ibs. $1.40. 
RADIO—Our earliest Pea. Like Alaska it has smooth 
seeds, though here with a slight ‘dimple’, and it is of 
about Alaska quality, sweet and good when young, but 
not equal to the wrinkle-seed kinds that follow it. Pods 
average slightly larger than in Alaska, and many will pre- 
fer it also because it is dwarfer, only fifteen inches. Pretty 
sure to give a good yield. Pkt. 10c; 1% lb. 25c; 1 Ib. 40c; 
2 Ibs. 75c; 5 Ibs. $1.65. 
LITTLE MARVEL—An early dwarf variety with wrinkled 
seed. An enormous yielder, and the quality is excellent. <A 
sure cropper. Only 18 inches, so needs no support. If 
you wish, you can make succession plantings of it. De- 
pendable sort for either home garden or market. Pkt. 10c; 
1, lb. 25c; 1 Ib. 40c; 2 lbs. 75c; 5 Ibs. $1.60. 
LAXTON’S PROGRESS—A Pea of the high quality, large- 
podded “English” type. Wide pods 41% inches long, dark 
green, carry each 7 to 9 big peas, also of deep green. 
Quality of the best, tender, sweet, delicious. As early as 
Little Marvel, and of same height, 18 inches. Does excellent- 
Iy on well-prepared, fertile soils, but if conditions are 
a bit difficult, Little Marvel may be more satisfactory. 
Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 40c; 2 Ibs. 75c; 5 Ibs. $1.60. 
THOMAS LAXTON—When it comes to real table quality, 
there can be none that excels this one, though there 
are a few, a very few, that equal it. A _ selection from 
Gradus, and we think an improvement over it. Big 
square-ended pods filled with luscious, sugary peas. Grows 
about 32 inches high. On good soils, a heavy yielder. Pkt. 
10c; 1% Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 40c; 2 Ibs. 75c; 5 Ibs. for $1.60. 
POTLATCH—Or Improved Stratagem. Perhaps best of 
the lower growing mid-season sorts. Vines are deep 
green, of vigorous, robust habit, reaching about 25 
inches and not needing support. Handsome pods, long, 
wide, packed with 8 to 10 large peas. Flavor rich, sweet, 
delicious. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 20c; 1 Ib. 35c; 2 Ibs. 65c; 
5 Ibs. $1.45. Illustrated above. 
ALDERMAN—Improved Telephone. Big five-inch pointed 
pods that are packed with very large, light green peas, 
8 to 10 of them. Vines grow to 4% feet, and need sup- 
port, of course. Quality is very good, indeed. Our largest 
podded sort. Main crop. On good soils, a very heavy 
yielder. Popular with market growers as well as with 
the home gardener. Pkt. 10c; % lb. 25c; 1 Ib. 45c; 2 Ibs. 
80c; 5 lbs. $1.70. : 
CHAMPION OF ENGLAND—Tall late variety, to five 
feet, requiring support. An old timer that by sheer 
high eating quality has kept its hold. Pods of medium 
size, but tightly filled with peas that fully equal in ten- 
derness, sweetness and richness those of Thomas Laxton. 
An enormous yielder. Follows Potlatch. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 
25c; 1 lb. 40c; 2 Ibs. 75c; 5 Ibs. $1.40. 

SUGAR PEA 
Here you eat pods and all, no shelling, 
just prepare them as you would snap 
beans. The pods are succulent, sweet, 
brittle, stringless. Use when young, 
while the peas in the pod are about half 
the size of those you would shell. Any 
that get past the crispy, waxy snap stage 
may, of course, be shelled and eaten as 
with other Peas. 25 inches, no support 
needed. This is the variety DWARF 
GRAY SUGAR. Pkt. 10c; % lb. 25c; 
1 Ib. 40c; 2 lbs. 75c. 
PEPPERS, Mostly Sweet 
If Peter Piper really picked a peck 
of pickled peppers, either he or the pep- 
per plants had a knack long since lost. 
Today we have to pickle our own, and 
after they have been picked, but per- 
haps we prefer them in salad, or just 
with salt, or in a sandwich filling, or 
stuffed and baked. No reason at all why 
we should not have them in fullest 
plenty, for they grow with ease, and 
yield much. 
WINDSOR ‘“A’”—An _ early ripening 
Sweet Pepper for the far north, or to 
begin the season anywhere. Fruits of 
very good size, 34% to four inches long 
by 2 to 214 inches of width, tapering somewhat, but with a 
rather blocky four-lobed ending. The earliest sort of its 
size, thickness of flesh and excellent flavor. Pkt. 10c; 
1% oz. 85c; 1 oz. 60c; %4 Ib. $2.15. 
SWEET BANANA 
—A new type of eens 
Sweet Pepper with ee 
long tapering 
fruits, these green 
at first, then ba- 
nana yellow, 
finally bril- 
liant red. Fine 
sweet flavor ; quite 
thick flesh. Much 
used in salads 
also for garnish- 
ing, and due to 
its form it packs 
well when canned 
for winter use. 
Prolific. Fruits 
run about 7 inches 
long by 1% inches 
thick, tapering to 
a point. Pkt. 15c; 
Y% oz. 45¢; 1 oz. 
80c. 
CALIFORNIA 
WONDER — Very 
large crimson 
fruits of blocky 
form, smooth and 
glossy, weighing 
heavily for their 
bulk because of 
the unusually 
thick flesh. We believe this to be the thickest meated 
Pepper offered anywhere, and the best flavored. It is 
crisp, juicy, and not only sweet, but with an appetizing 
piquancy to the sweetness that is sure to appeal. Needs 
a longer season than the Windsor, but by starting it a 
bit early one should be able to ripen a nice crop of the 
fruits almost anywhere in the north. A very heavy 
cropper. Illustrated above, Pkt. 10c; % oz. 40c; 1 oz. 
70c; 4 lb. $2.40. 
SWEET-MEAT GLORY—Best of the Pimientos. Smooth 
heart-shaped fruits of bright red, with sweet mild, thick 
flesh. Pkt. 10c; 1% oz. 35c. 
LONG RED CAYENNE—It’s hot, extremely so. Long, 
slender scarlet fruits in profusion. Used for making hot 
sauces, relishes, in pickles, etc. Can be canned or dried. 
Pkt. 10c; 1% oz. 35¢c; 1 oz. 60c. 


SOW PEAS EARLY, just about as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring; indeed the smooth- 
seed kinds, as Alaska and Radio, may even be sown before frost is altogether out, providing soil is 
not too heavy. Of the wrinkle-seed sorts sow, for long succession about three, an early dwarf; a 
second-early (as Thomas Laxton), and a longer season kind, (as Potlatch, Alderman or Champion). 
Sew all three at once, and early, then they will naturally mature in 1-2-3 order. 
