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NEW PEAS WELCOME (53 days) 
If you are growing peas for the market, you certainly 
would find growing peas, way more interesting than it is if 
you had peas to sell ten days ahead of the usual type. 
You can have such peas. This pea is our Welcome. 
Welcome is a short pea, vines about two feet high, loaded 
with handsome, well-filled, sea-green pods. If by growing 
Welcome you will not make good money, you will not by 
growing any other pea. If you will not try Welcome, grow- 
ing for the market, you will lose. Pkt. 10c; lb. 40c, prepaid. 
Not prepaid: 10 lbs. $2.90; 100 lbs. $26.00. 
PEA WYOMING WONDER (70 days) 
Produces a heavy crop of very large dark green pods 5 
to 6 inches long, containing 8 to 10 large peas of unusually 
fine flavor that remain sweet and tender 7 to 10 days after 
ready to pick. Vines dark green, vigorous, 24 to 28 inches 
tall, 100% resistant to fusarium wilt. Where climatic con- 
ditions permit of planting a late maturing pea Wyoming 
Wonder will prove a well paying sort. Pkt. 10c; lb. 40c, 
prepaid. Unprepaid: 10 lbs. $2.50; 100 lbs. $23.00. 
WHICH PEA IS THE BEST? 
Market growers must plant only the highly developed new 
varieties, in order to stay on the right side of the ledger. These 
are: For the earliest crop WELCOMH, a large podded pea with 
pods not very well filled out and of rather pale green color. 
Welcome makes a crop days ahead of even the finest strain of 
Alaska, and no other pea will show the grower better profit. Mark, 
that we recommend Welcome ONLY for the earliest crop. To follow 
Welcome, Laxtonian or Model should be planted. Blue Bantam will 
be ready 4-5 days after Laxtonian and should be planted by every 
grower because the pods are extra large, well filled, dark green 
and of the very finest quality. The best medium early pea is 
_Potlach and for a late crop Chieftain is hard to beat. We would 
never touch such varieties as First and Best, Alaska, Gradus, etc. 
All these WERH fine varieties years ago and are a poor excuse for 
peas today. We list these varieties however because there are still 
calls for these ‘“‘back numbers.” 
LITTLE MARVEL—This is a pea among peas. Has small 
pods, does not fill the basket as fast as the Laxtonian types 
of peas, yet of all early peas Little Marvel is the king. A 
standard market basket of Little Marvel weighs three pounds 
more than a basket filled with Laxtonian type of pea. The 
customer is getting more in weight and very high quality on 
top of it. Little Marvel is a pea to grow in every case 
where quality is appreciated and rewarded. Growers that 
cater to markets in which peas are peas and the price the 
same for all, will do better growing the larger podded peas. 
SOUTHERN TABLE PEAS 
Southern Table Peas or edible Cow Peas resemble bush 
beans in growth, requiring same culture and being prepared 
for the table same as “string beans.” The crop of pods is 
tremendous. The pods are round, straight, meaty and ten- 
der almost a foot long, packed with as many as 21 luscious 
sugary peas. Plant at the same time as string beans when 
the weather is warm and settled. 
EXTRA EARLY BLACK EYE—Ready in 50 days from date 
of planting, bearing a heavy crop of fine, long, straight, well- 
filled pods. Popular market variety because early. Pkt. 10c; 
Ib. 35c, prepaid. Not prepaid, 10 Ibs. $2.20. 
CREAM CROWDER—Produces green peas in 85 days. One of 
the best flavored table peas and very heavily productive. 
Pkt. 10c; lb. 45c; 10 lbs. $2.70. 
PRICES: FOR PEAS IN LOTS OF 16, 25, AND 10@ LBS. 
ARE F. 0. B. COUNCIL BLUFFS. We sell 5 pounds at 16 
pound rate, 25 pounds or over at 10@ pound rate. 
NEW PEA—CHIEFTAIN (70 days) 
Chieftain Pea—(Starosta) leads all other peas, dwarf or 
tall, early or late, in 
size of pod and pro- 
ductiveness. The 
vines are truly bur- 
dened with large, 
broad, medium dark 
green pods, and ev- 
ery pod is well filled 
with extra large, 
tender, delicious 
sweet peas. It is the 
best and most profit- 
able pea to grow, to 
follow Gradus or 
Laxtonian and rip- 
ens just a few days 
ahead of Telephone. 
The pods are very 
attractive in appear- 
ance, they are very 
broad and heavy, 
and soon fill the 
baskets. The vines 
are 2% feet tall, re- 
quiring no staking, 
very strong and 
sturdy of deep green 
color. The pods are 
from 4% to 6 inches 
long, and contain 
from 8 to 10 large, 
bright green peas. 
































Chieftain is the 
largest podded pea 
that we have ever 
grown, and we have 
never seen sO many 
pods on a vine, not 
even in the far north 
where the climate 
for the perfect de- 
velopment of peas is 
ideal. Chieftain can 
be justly called the 
Jumbo of the pea 
family and we rec- 
ommend it strongly 
as the best main 
crop variety to all, 
and especially to 
those who wish to 
grow the largest 
sized pods for exhi- 
bition purposes. Pkt. 
10c; % lb. 20c; Ib. 
40c; postpaid. Not 
prepaid: 10 Ibs. 
$2.50; 100 lbs. $23.00. 












































Chieftain Peas 
