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Iowa Seed Company, Des Moines, Iowa.

PEAS—Ger. Erbse.

One quart will plant about 100 feet of drill.

[image (open pea pod with infant or children’s heads replacing peas)]

Peas mature quickest in light dry soil, not too rich. May be sown as early as the ground can be worked. And for a succession, every two weeks up to July, or what is still better, select several kinds which will form a succession in maturing, and sow all at about the same time. Sow in drills two to four feet apart, according to varieties, not less than four inches deep for general crop, although the first earlies will come to maturity sooner if only covered one and one half to two inches. Wrinkled sorts are marked ^✽. They should be sown thicker in the row than the smooth varieties as they are more liable to rot. Our seed peas are of the very best quality obtainable, and we believe cannot fail to please the most critical.

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PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE.

Pints at one-half the quart rate. See special prices by the peck and bushel, at the end of Vegetable List. 15c. per quart discount if sent by express.

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CLEVELAND’S ALASKA—Height two feet; pods fine shape, dark green color, remarkaly[remarkably] well filled, often seven to nine peas; the earliest pea known, being two days earlier than the Rural New Yorker, and 90 per cent of the pods can be gathered at the first picking, Per pkt., 5c.,[;] ½ pt., 12c; qt., 40c.

^✽MCLEAN’S LITTLE GEM—The most popular variety for private gardens; very sweet. Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 12c; qt., 40c.

TOM THUMB—An old favorite with many familes[families]. Seed scarce this year. Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 15c; qt., 45c.

RURAL NEW YORKER—Very early, and of most even growth and maturity; eighty to ninety per cent of the pods can be removed at one picking. Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 20c; qt,[.], 40c.

FIRST AND BEST—Is an improvement on the Philadelphia Extra Early. Pods good size and well filled with smooth Peas of excellent flavor. Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 12c; qt., 40c.

^✽PREMIUM GEM—Height one foot, early and prolific. A type of, and and[sic] an improvement of the Little Gem. Pods long and of a dark green color. Don’t fail to plant at least a few of these if you want extra nice sweet peas. Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 12c; qt., 40c.

BLUE PETER OR BLUE TOM THUMB—Per pkt., 5c.,[;] ½ pt., 15c; qt., 45c.

^✽LAXTON’S ALPHA—One of the very earliest wrinkled peas in cultivation; very prolific, fine flavor; pods well filled with large sweet peas. Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 12c; qt., 40c.

EARLY KENT, OR DAN O’ROURKE—Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 10c; qt. 30c.

^✽BLISS AMERICAN WONDER—The earliest and most prolific dwarf wrinkled Pea, unsurpassed for early sowing. On good soil each vine will average twelve pods and eac[each] pod six peas. The vine grows from eight to ten inches high. Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 15c; qt., 50c.

[image: (Bliss American Wonder pea plant)]

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WHITE MARROWFAT—Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 10c; qt., 30c.

BLACK-EYED MARROWFAT—This is extensively grown as a field pea; very productive, height about four feet. Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt.[,] 10c; qt., 30c.

DWARF SUGAR—Edible pods, use like Snap beans. Very vigorous and prolific, quality excellent. If you have never grown Sugar Peas try them this year. Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 15c; qt., 45c.

^✽THE STANLEY—This very handsome new variety which is offered this year for the first time is well shown by the accompanying illustration. It is a grand medium early wrinkled pea with well filled pods, larger than the Stratagem, a tremendous cropper with dwarf stocky vine, which needs no bushing. It is very sweet and of delicious flavor; full grown pods often measure four inches in length by over two in circumference, and mature very uniformly, so that nearly the entire crop may be taken at one picking, All should try it. We can offer it this year in large packets only at 15 cents each, 2 for 25cts

[image: (The Stanley pea plant with ruler showing height of plant to be 17½ inches high, and detail of two pea pods with one split open)]

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^✽STRATAGEM—Decidedly the best late variety for family or market use. Pods long and filled with seven to nine large peas of extra fine quality. Per Pkt., 5c; pt., 15c; qt., 50c.

^✽IMPROVED ADVANCER—Seed green, wrinkled; height, two feet; pods large, and filled with peas of a delicious flavor; a very popular variety both for family and market purposes; per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 15c; qt., 45c.

DWARF WHITE MARROW—Good yielder, much prized by gardeners. Per pkt., 5c; pt., 12c; qt., 35c.

^✽CHAMPION OF ENGLAND—Universally admitted by all to be one of the richest and best flavored peas grown. It is very popular, and will bring a higher price in the market than any other. Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 10c:[;] qt., 35c.

CARTER’S FIRST CROP—Early and productive Per pkt. 5c; ½ pt., 12c; qt 30c.

^✽YORKSHIRE HERO—Very prolific, and of fine flavor, Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 12c; qt., 40c.

IOWA’S CHALLENGE—An extra early variety of superior merit which is a favorite with the Des Moines market gardeners. We can in all confidence say that after a trial of nearly all extra early varieties offered to the trade we have not found one possessessing [possessing] more merit, hence its name. For the market gardener it has no superior. It is not only extremely early and prolific, but it is of good flavor. All the good qualities of the extra early are most nearly brought to perfection in the Challenge. Vines eighteen inches. Per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 15c; qt., 50c.

[image (three Iowa’s Challenge pea pods on a stem with one showing detail of eight peas)]

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[image caption: IOWA CHALLENGE.]

^✽BLISS ABUNDANCE—Height 20 inches; time of ripening medium; remarkably strong vigorous branching habit and unusually productive; pods of fair size, well filled with peas of good quality; per pkt., 5c; ½ pt., 15c; qt., 45c.

^✽BLISS’ EVER-BEARING—Height two feet, late to very late; hardy vigorous, enormous cropper; pods and peas of large size and good quality. Per pkt..[,] 5c; ½ pt., 15c; qt., 50c.

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