Archive image from page 12 of Descriptive catalogue of high grade. Descriptive catalogue of high grade seeds for the farm and garden . descriptivecatal1894twwo Year: 1894 â 'Si. This new pea, intro- duced by us last season, as the name indicates, is a truly wonderful and most valuable variety. It is woiiiderful in the enormous productiveness, both vine and peas, and exceptionally valuable for the varied uses to which it is adapted. In order to mature the peas and o obtain the best results it should be sown in the middle of May, although it can be sown as late as June or the beginuing of Ju
Archive image from page 12 of Descriptive catalogue of high grade. Descriptive catalogue of high grade seeds for the farm and garden . descriptivecatal1894twwo Year: 1894 â 'Si. This new pea, intro- duced by us last season, as the name indicates, is a truly wonderful and most valuable variety. It is woiiiderful in the enormous productiveness, both vine and peas, and exceptionally valuable for the varied uses to which it is adapted. In order to mature the peas and o obtain the best results it should be sown in the middle of May, although it can be sown as late as June or the beginuing of July, but sown as late as this, while it will make enormous growth of vine, it is doubtful whether it will mature its crop of peas. It should be sown at the rate of one-half to three-fourths of a bushel per acre. The following is an extract from a letter regarding these peas, written by Mr. Geo. B. Finch, a prominent farmer of Southside Virginia, which was printed in our last year's catalogue; ' Last season we sowed on an island which is attached to my farm thirty bushels of these peas, fifteen of which were sown to themselves the last of May on thin sandy land, about half bushel to the acre. The other fifteen were sown in the corn, the seed being ploughed under at 1aying-by time, say last of July, one bushel to the acre. I was not on the island very often during the summer, but was there on the 14th of September. At that time this pea patch presented the most ' wonderful' sight of the kind you well can imagioe. The island is a long, narrow strip of land, three miles long, though only containing one hundred and forty acres. The ferry is at the upper end, connecting with a road running down through the centre. As I drove down this road, both on the right hand and the left, the whole face of the ground was completely covered with a dense heavy mat or carpet of vines, with leaves of the richest, glossy green, to the depth of three feet or more, and filled with the long taper- ing p
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