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Early, Second Earhf, and Late. The earliest are mostly small, round, smooth, 

 and hardy, the tallest not growing more than from two to three feet in height. 

 Of late years some very fine dwarf, sweet, wrinkled sorts, like Little Gem, have 

 been added to this class, of very great merit. The Seco7id Early contains a 

 list of excellent w^rinkled varieties, like Eugenie. The Late are large, mostly 



wrinkled, and formerly were nearly all tall, 

 like the Champion of England, but very 

 many excellent dwarfs have been added to 

 the list, like Yorkshire Hero. If the Earliest 

 sorts are planted about the first of April, in. 

 this latitude, they will be fit to gather in 

 June, often quite early in the month. The 

 Second will come in about the Fourth of 

 July. By sowing two or three varieties of 

 Early, and the same of Second, and Late, as 

 soon as practicable in the spring, a supply 

 will be had from early in June to late in 

 July, with only one sowing. After this 

 Sweet Corn will be in demand. Sow in drills 

 not less than four inches deep, pretty thick- 

 ly, — about a pint to forty feet. The drills 

 should not be nearer than two feet, except 

 for the lowest sorts. Those growing three 

 feet high, or more, should not be nearer than 

 three or four feet. As they are early off the 

 ground, cabbage can be planted between the 

 rows, or the space can be used for celery 

 trenches. All varieties growing three feet or 

 more in height should have brush for their 

 support. The large, fine-wrinkled varieties 

 are not as hardy as the small sorts, and if 

 planted very early should have a dry soil, or 

 they are liable to rot. Keep well hoed up 

 and stick QQx\y. "When grown extensively 

 for market. Peas do well sown on ridges made 

 by the plow, two rows on each ridge, and not 

 sticked, the pea vines drooping into the furrows. In response to the inquiry 

 so often made, why we can not sow Peas late, and thus have them in eating all 

 through the summer, and why Peas are "buggy," we will say that the Pea 

 delights in a cool, moist climate, and sufiers in warm, dry weather. Those 

 planted late will most likely be attacked with mildew, and never give half a 

 crop. The Pea, when grown in a tolerably mild climate, is troubled with a 

 weevil, the egg being laid in the pea when it is very small, through the pod. 

 The way to obtain sound Peas for seed, is to grow them where the weevil does 

 not exist. 



EHUBAEB. 



The Rhubarb, or Pie-Plant, is usually growai from divisions of the roots, 

 for every portion which has an eye, will form a plant. Occasionally persons 

 prefer to grow from seeds. It will take two years to obtain a strong plant 

 from seed, but a package of seeds in two years will give enough plants to stock 



