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Title: 12th annual price list & catalogue of fresh and reliable garden, field and flower seeds : grown and sold on the seed farm of Samuel Wilson
Identifier: 12thannualpricel1888wils (find matches)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Wilson, Samuel; Samuel Wilson (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Mechanicsville, P. A. : Samuel Wilson
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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WILSON'S SEED CATALOGUE FOU 1888. 49
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Pride of the Market. This famous new English pea. introduced two years ago, is the most wonderful and productive pea ever seen in this country. It grows from IcS inches to 2 feet high, and bears grand pods filled with fine- flavored peas from top to bottom of the haulm. The following, taken from the Gardeners' Monthly, 1884, shows the high quality and great productiveness (if this valuable pea : " They are certainly the most use- ful to amateurs not over-burdened with space, and market growers who cannot well employ supports, for they require no sticks and are quite unequalled in productiveness. They have a robust, free-branch- ing habit, and attain a height ranging from 18 to 24 inches, according to the weather and the soil, and are immensely productive. They are, indeed, such heavy croppers that I know of no peas from which so large'a bulk of produce can be obtained from a given space; indeed, no such varieties exist. Their pro- ductiveness is by no means their only recommenda- tion, for the pods are so large in size, and handsome in appearance, that they take high rank for exhibi- tion purposes, and the peas, when on the table, are of so splendid a quality that it would be difiicult to over-praise them." Pkt.,by mail, 10 cts.; pint, SOcts.; qt., 50 cts.; by express, qt., 35 cts.; peck, $3.00. White and Black-Eyed Marrowfats. Old standard sorts, inferior in quality to some of the new varieties, but very productive and easily grown; height, 3 feet; pods and peas large size, valuable as a late market pea. Large pkt., by mail, 10 cts.; qt., by express, 18 cts.; peck, 75 cts.; bus., $2.75. Tall Sugar Peas. Tall sugar, edible pods, and can be used in a raw state, like string beans. Pkt., 10 cts.; pint, 20 cts. Dwarf Blue Imperial. An excellent old-fashion Summer pea; height, 2% feet; fine flavor, excellent bearers ; a good market pea. Pkt., by mail, 10 cts.; qt., by express, 20 cts.; peck, ZlAo; bus., $4.00. Dwarf Sugar. Similar to the above, but shorter in growth. By mail, pkt., 10 cts.; by express, pint, 20 cts. For new productive varieties of Peas, see Specialties, page —. AndeewJackson, Wilton, Conn.: Telephone Pea is ahead of any I ever raised lor Ijearing and quality. P. S. Dudley, Flemingsburgh, Ky.: I am well pleased with seeds bought of you last year, particularly the Pride of the Market Pea. Mrs. Seth Joqua, El Salem, Wis.: The Ever- bearing Peas are the finest I ever saw. Bishop Dwarf Liong Pods. This well-tried and valuable variety of peas, after many years' trial, has proven itself to be one of the most productix e an<l desirable sorts ever yet introduced. Fcr market gar- deners, as a second early variety, it ceriainly has no equal, as it comes into bearing directly after the early varieties are done, and is positively the heaviest cropper of any we have ever tried. The Bishop Dwarf Long Pods are not a wrinkled pea. They grow from is to 20 inches in height, needing no sticks for field culture. The pods are good length, well filled with fine, large peas, of excellent quality, end so abundantly do they bear that one can almost fill a basket without moving their position. It certainly is one of Bishop Dwarf Long Pod. the most profitable for market purposes. By mail, pkt., 10 cts.; by express, pint, 13 cts.; qt., 25 cts.; peck, $1.50; bush., $5.50. Our List of Seed Potatoes are the choicest and the best.

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