PEAS 
We grow a full line of the more important pea varieties for home and market gardening, 
canning and freezing. Our production is centered chiefly in Idaho where high altitude, 
cool dry summers, abundance of irrigation water and freedom from seed borne diseases 
combine to give the very highest quality pea seed. 
Trained, experienced personnel plus the best modern equipment and facilities at 
each of our growing stations insure uniformly high quality seed. 
At both our Minneapolis and our Twin Falls, Idaho, breeding grounds, we carry on 
intensive and continuous selection and breeding work on pea varieties. After the basic 
selection and line improvement work each seed stock lot is carefully isolated, critically 
rogued, constantly checked. 
Smooth seeded sorts are commonly packed 120 pounds per bag; wrinkled varieties 
112 pounds. (2 bushels.) 
Maturity figures are based largely on average growing seasons at our Minneapolis 
trial grounds and are relative only. 
Round or Smooth-Seeded Varieties 
Alaska Dark Green 56 days 
A selection with green seed coat as well 
as green cotyledons. Same maturity as 
Alaska 28-57. Outstanding difference is 
the darker green color at edible stage. 
Alaska 28-57 W.R. 
Vine—26-34 inches, light green with 
slender stem and small leaves, re- 
sistant to Fusarium Wilt. First pod 
set on 9th or 10th node. 
Pods—2% x %% inches, light green, 
straight, blunt pods, borne singly, 5-7 
peas. 
Peas—Small, light green, fair quality, 
low in sugar. 
Seed—Nearly smooth, gray green, 2,500 
dry seeds per pound. 
Developed at the University of Wisconsin. 
It is one of the most widely grown 
56 days 
Little Marvel 
canning varieties. A very uniform and 
high yielding strain. 
Alaska H.F. 30 W.R. 58 days 
Vine—28-36 inches, less uniform than 
Alaska 28-57, light yellow-green, thin 
stems and small leaves. Resistant to 
Fusarium wilt. First set on 10th or 
11th node. 
Pods—25s x % inches, light green, blunt, 
borne primarily singly, 6-8 peas. 
Peas—Small, light green, fair quality, low 
in sugar. 
Seed—Nearly smooth, medium deep 
green, 2,500 dry seeds per pound. 
A late selection of Alaska that has been 
pure-lined and is productive. It has 
good vigor due to deep root develop- 
ment. 
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