Archive image from page 32 of Currie's farm and garden annual. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1925 50th year curriesfarmgarde19curr_8 Year: 1925 ( Gradus. EXTRA EARLY VARIETIES. Those marked are wrinkled. CURRIE'S EXTRA EARLY CHALLENGE—No extra early Pea has ever given the universal satisfaction that this one has. It is an enormous bearer and very early. The vines may be cleared off in two pickings and the ground prepared for another crop before other early varieties come into use. The pods are large and well tilled with round peas of fi/ne flavor. Pkt. 10c; 1/2 lb. 25c; (by mail 3
Archive image from page 32 of Currie's farm and garden annual. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1925 50th year curriesfarmgarde19curr_8 Year: 1925 ( Gradus. EXTRA EARLY VARIETIES. Those marked are wrinkled. CURRIE'S EXTRA EARLY CHALLENGE—No extra early Pea has ever given the universal satisfaction that this one has. It is an enormous bearer and very early. The vines may be cleared off in two pickings and the ground prepared for another crop before other early varieties come into use. The pods are large and well tilled with round peas of fi/ne flavor. Pkt. 10c; 1/2 lb. 25c; (by mail 31c); 1 lb. 40c (by mail 47e); 2 lbs. 75c; 5 lbs. $; 10 lbs. $ ♦SUTTON'S EXCELSIOR, or Melting Marrow—A new, early wrinkled sort, superior to the old Nott's Excelsior. Its light green, square-ended pods, long and broad, are uniformly well filled, averaging six to eight immense, rich green delicious peas. The vines grow about 15 inches in height, are very hardy, bear in great abundance, and are practically self-supporting. Pkt. 10c; 1/2 lb. 30c (by mail 36c); 1 lb. 45c (by ma 1 52c); 2 lbs. 80c; 5 lbs. $; 10 lbs. $ •Thomas Laxton—A wrinkled Pea, coming in with the First Earlies wlth pods double the size. In earliness it is within a day or two of 'Challenge Extra Early.' The pods are rich dark green, straight and square ended, and contain on the average 7 to 8 very large marrow peas of the richest flavor. Pkt. 10c; Va lb. 30c (by mail 36c); 1 lb. 45c (by mail 52c); 2 lbs. 80c; 5 lbs. $; 10 lbs. $ •LAXTONIAN—This is the best early Dwarf Wrinkled Pea ever introduced. II comes in several days ahead of Gradus .and has pods double the size of American Wonder. The larger pods equal in size to Gradus or any of the late, large-podded Telephone types, are well filled with dark green Peas of excellent quality; gen- erally 8 to 9 Peas in a pod. It is wonderfully hardy and vigorous and a remark- ably profuse yielder. 11/2 feet. Pkt. 10c; 1/2 lb. 30c (b
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