Wrinkled-Seeded (continued) 
Premium Gem, w.r.: 64 days. A good early sort. 
Dwarf vines with straight pods containing 6-7 
peas of good quality. 
Rondo: 72 days. A dwarf variety for market 
garden, shipping and freezing developed at our 
pea-breeding station. Plants dark green and 
heavy-yielding. Pods largely double, similar to 
Alderman, well filled with excellent quality peas. 
Shasta, w.r.: 67 days. A very attractive variety 
recently developed by us. Plant medium green, 
sturdy; pods similar to Thomas Laxton, borne 
mainly in pairs. Peas of excellent quality, for 
fresh use or freezing. 
Rondo: a late variety 
with handsome, large pods 
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Teton, w.r.: 65 days. All-America Silver Medal 
1937. An attractive introduction resembling 
our strain of Thomas Laxton. Large, attractive 
pods, concentrated in season and well filled 
with 7-8 large peas. 
Thomas Laxton, Dark-Podded: 62 days. An ex- 
cellent medium-early sort; 314”, blunt, broad 
pods with 7-8 large, tender peas. Vines of 
medium height. The Asgrow strain excels in 
appearance, being a rich full green, darker than 
the usual strains of this well-known variety. 
World’s Record: 57 days. The Asgrow strain 
is noted for earliness and large pods each with 
7-8 peas of fine quality. A favorite variety for 
the first markets; very uniform in matyring. 
Pods medium green, pointed, broad, plump. 
Edible-Podded 
Known also as sugar or salad peas. The 
large, broad, fleshy pods are picked when 
young and used in the same ways as 
snap beans. 
Dwarf Grey Sugar, w.r.: 65 days. Earlier than 
the Mammoth but not so fine. 
Mammoth Melting Sugar, w.r.: 74 days. The best 
of the edible podded sorts for home and market 
gardens. Broad, brittle pods, 414” long, string- 
less and fiberless. 
For Southern Growers 
May be used not only as table peas but 
also as edible-podded sorts when young, 
and as dried peas for winter. 
Brown Crowder: 80 days. Long pods, crowded 
with 12 to 20 buff-brown, well-flavored peas. 
One of the earliest and most prolific varieties, 
excellent also as a forage crop and soil improver. 
Asgrow Pea Breeding Station, Hamilton, Montana 
