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PEAS 
Peas are cool weather plants and should be sown just as soon as the ground can be 
worked. The early, small, smooth-seeded varieties should be planted fist; the large, 
wrinkled-seeded sorts, which are sweeter and of better quality, are not so hardy and 
should be sown when the ground is a little warmer. Prepare a good seed bed, properly 
enriched. Allow 1-2 lb. per 100 ft. of double row; 4-5 bushels per acre. Plant 1” 
deep in 8” double rows, 2 ft. apart for the dwarf sorts, 3 ft. for the tall. Cultivate 
regularly and provide the tall sorts with brushwood or other supports. Commercial 
growers have found it highly profitable to run a strip of fertilizer alongside the rows 
about 3” away from the growing plants. 
The letters w.r. indicate that the Asgrow strain of the variety so marked is resistant to wilt. 
Continual work on the Asgrow breeding station and the careful supervision of growing seed crops 
in the high, clean, mountain districts of the West insure a uniform standard of high quality. 
Particular attention is given not only to freedom from disease infection but also to purity of 
strain, uniformity and yield. 
Smooth-Seeded 
Alaska, w.r.: 57 days. Very early, hardy and 
productive. Light green pods 3” long with 6-8 
bluish green peas. The Asgrow pure-lined strain 
is well known for good pod size and yield. 
Laxton’s Superb: 61 days. The earliest large- 
podded dwarf sort. Pods 414” long, 9-10 peas. 
Pedigree Extra Early (First and Best), w.r.: 58 
days. Asgrow originated. Through the South the 
favorite for early cropping. Plump, short, light 
green pods, 6-7 peas. 
White Marrowfat, w.r.: 80 days. Plants about 
5 ft. tall, vigorous and heavy yielding. 
Glacier: excellent fresh 
or from the home freezer 
Wrinkled-Seeded 
Alderman (Telephone), w.r.: 74 days. One of 
the most popular varieties with market growers 
and shippers. Vines tall and vigorous, very 
prolific. Large, handsome, straight, plump, dark 
green pods. The Asgrow strain represents the 
standard of high quality in peas. 
Cody, w.r.: 57 days. A first early market and 
freezing variety recently developed by Asgrow. 
Of Gradus type but earlier. Pods dark green, 
broad, plump, with 7-9 large oblong tender 
peas. 
Dwarf Telephone (Daisy), w.r.: 76 days. A little 
later and with slightly smaller pods than Alder- 
man. Vines light green, stocky and branching. 
Pods medium light green with 8-10 peas. 
Glacier, w.r.: 61 days. Simiiar to our Dark 
Podded Thomas Laxton, but resistant to Fu- 
sarium wilt. 
Gradus: 60 days. A standard variety of World’s 
Record type, but a few days later. 
Hundredfold: 63 days. An attractive early 
large podded sort. Very deep green pods, 414” 
long, pointed, with about 8 large peas. 
Laxton’s Progress: 62 days. Largest podded 
and most attractive of the Laxtonian group. 
Though not planted so early as smooth-seeded 
varieties, it matures quickly and is widely used 
for the early local markets and shipping. Hand- 
some dark green pods, 414” long with 7-9 peas. 
Little Marvel: 64 days. An old favorite with 
3” blunt pods, 7-8 tender peas. 
Number 40, w.r.: 74 days. Bred specially for 
shippers and market gardeners. Pods of excep- 
tional size and quality; round, plump and dark 
green; 5”-6” long with 8-10 large succulent peas. 
