White or Cream Crowder Commercial Peas
A strictly Southern grown table pea, has been known to a few many years, growing in popularity very rapidly, both for gardens and for planting on a large scale with corn. It is white or cream in color, very sweet and gets the name Crowder from the fact that the peas fit the hull very closely. This is a bunch pea and very prolific and should be planted as you would any other bunch garden peas. They sell well on any Southern market both as a green shelled pea and as a dry shelled pea for Winter use.
Originally listed in: Porter and Sons mid-20th-century pricelist
A strictly Southern grown table pea, has been known to a few many years, growing in popularity very rapidly, both for gardens and for planting on a large scale with corn. It is white or cream in color, very sweet and gets the name Crowder from the fact that the peas fit the hull very closely. This is a bunch pea and very prolific and should be planted as you would any other bunch garden peas. They sell well on any Southern market both as a green shelled pea and as a dry shelled pea for Winter use.
Originally listed in: Porter and Sons mid-20th-century pricelist