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Title: Spring 1897
Identifier: CAT31282709 (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: John A. Salzer Seed Co.
Subjects: Nursery stock Wisconsin Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Cereal grasses Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: La Crosse, Wis. : John A. Salzer Seed Co.

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Salzer's Earliest and Best Pea. This is our favorite early Pea; indeed, it is our first love. We consider it an old friend of ours, as it has been with us for the past 20 years. When we were market gar- dening at La Crosse this Pea never disappointed us. It was always the first, the best and the earliest in the La Crosse market, and many a dollat did we receive for its sale. We do not know of any Pea that is superior or would give the market gardener more profit and a greater sale than this variety. There is certainly no Pea offered by seedsmen to-day—and we have tested them all—that can equal it in earliness and uniformity of ripening. We do not remember during 20 years one instance whtn earlier Peas were ever brought into the La Crosse market than ours. We always offered the first, from the fact that our variety was fully 6 to 10 days ahead of the earliest. We have tiied Lan- u dreth's Extra Earlv, Burpee's Extra Early, Henderson's First of All.Vick's Early, but all were behind our Earliest and Best. This Pea is early, growing from 18 to 30 inches high, a fine cropper, and of excellent flavor, and all who have tried it are emphatic in pronouncing it the very earliest, best-flavored Pea grown. Of Course, Every Seedsman Claims to have the earliest Pea—but the wide-awake gardener can't be thus fooled! For over 20 years this Pea was the earliest in the La Crosse market, and we keep right on improving it, and we challenge the world to produce an earlier, finer, more productive sort! (Of course Salzer's Scorcher is earlier.) Frank Cobern, of Iowa, reports the enormous yield of 11,271 perfect pods from 1 pint of seed. Now, honestly, would you expect a Pea to be better? It is the Pea for early, for big yield and good quality. We are shipping this to market gardeners in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, St. Paul, Omaha, Kansas City, Detroit, Milwaukee, London, Liverpool, Paris, Berlin and other large cities, and when once used is grown to the exclusion of all "earliest" sorts by all market farmers and gardtners. PLEASE NOTE THE LOW PRICE OF -^EARLIEST AND BEST," GRANDEST OF ALL PEAS. We have reduced the price ofthis Pea by the bushel, and hope thereby to introduce it into every market gardener's hands in America, for we believe that wheis they once try our Earliest and Best Pea they will want no other for extremely early. Market gardeners have told us that they have secured from iiSO to 350 bushels o? green Peas per acre of this variety, selling them from $2.00 to «2.25 per bushel, as they are always earlier than their neighbors'. We urge everybody to try it. Byniail,pks., lOc; >^ pt.,20c.; pt.,BOc.; qt.,45c.; by express, pkg.,10c.; pt.,loc.; qt., 30c.; pk., $L25; bu.,$4.00; 5bu., $18.00. EARLY MAY. This is a grand new blue dwari^ wrinkled Pea It is extremely dwarf, growing from 10 to 1") inches, and literally fills itself with large pods, ripening evenly and of excellent flavor. It is very early,—earlier than American Wonder,— testing in 46 days. When once tried, no othct dwarf sort will be grown. We know that all who try this Pea will agree with the words of a pleased patron by sayingj "I do not exaggerate when I say that this is the very best dwarf Pea to grow in a family garden for the table that I ever saw. I congratulate y6u in placing a Pea of its remarkable character before the American people, and I predict for it a bright future.** Its strong points are its delicious richness oi flavor; its extreme earliness; its dwarf habit» needing no brushing, "and its large-sized pod. We have sent out the past six years many thousand packages and to many thousand cus- tomers in America and Europe, and everywhere our customers are delighted with same. One of its distinctive features is its unusually regular habit of growth. It is of uniform height, so smooth and level in its growth that a row re- sembles a well-kept hedge. It is also a magnifi- cent variety for market gardeners to grow, as the pods are large, it fills up a bushel quickly; and brings a very fine price in market. PRICE OP EARLY MAY PEA. By mail, pkg., lOc: % pt., 15c.; pt., 30g^ qt., 45c.; pk., By express, pkg.. lOc; pt., 15c.; qt., SOe»; pk., «1.'60; bu., $5.00: 2)4 bu., SIO.OO*
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The Three Greatest Peas on Earth are Salzer's Scorcher, Earliest and Best, and Early May.

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