. Gregory & Son's retail catalogue of warranted vegetable, flower and grain seeds . peas of the Market Garden weighed HORSFORDS MARKET GARDEN PEA. Of this remarkablepea, in my note-book onmy experimental gar-den, in which I test allnew things, comparingthem with standardsorts, I rind the follow-ing entry: A tremen-dous cropper, excelling,with a single exception,every one of the forty-five varieties on trial;pods as long as Ad-vancer, and as wellfilled. It grows nearlyas tall as Advancer, butis a better the Ohio experimen-tal station, tested withtwenty-eight of theleading v a r i e t
. Gregory & Son's retail catalogue of warranted vegetable, flower and grain seeds . peas of the Market Garden weighed HORSFORDS MARKET GARDEN PEA. Of this remarkablepea, in my note-book onmy experimental gar-den, in which I test allnew things, comparingthem with standardsorts, I rind the follow-ing entry: A tremen-dous cropper, excelling,with a single exception,every one of the forty-five varieties on trial;pods as long as Ad-vancer, and as wellfilled. It grows nearlyas tall as Advancer, butis a better the Ohio experimen-tal station, tested withtwenty-eight of theleading v a r i e t ie s,twenty-five plants ofeach kind were care-fully harvested, and thepods and peas counted,and the total product ofeach weighed. The re-sult was, that the shelled nearly twice as much as the heaviest cropper of either of the othervarieties, while the number of pods on the twenty-five plants wereconsiderably more than double the average of the twenty-eightvarieties with which it was tested. Grown by myself, on a largescale, I find that it leads, in bushels of green peas, any of
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