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lime ; you may add as much slacked fine lime as you 
choose; the more lime that is added, the thicker will 
be the coating and the greater the durability of it. 
The tar also gives it a grey colour, according to the 
amount put in. 
Now if you go toa professional builder of glass- 
houses &c. and ask him to make you such a frame, he 
will charge you in all about 30/. They will be made 
better as far as the frame goes, but the sashes are the 
same, which is the main thing. These frames are 
equal to all that is required for the purpose of Pea 
culture. The result of getting Peas in these frames is 
encouraging ; and I have no doubt but that, if the 
Little Gem is grown in them, from 4/. to 51. worth of 
pods may be sold in the month of May. When all the 
Peas are done with in this frame, it can be used for 
Cucumbers, by merely digging up the soil, and turning 
in a good lot of rotten manure. The Peas do not cost 
much for seed, and give but little trouble. 
The Peas should be sown in December, across the 
frame, the rows being one foot apart, and the drill one 
inch or so apart. 
The Cucumbers from this Pea frame will be a re- 
munerative crop. It will take sixty Cucumber plants, 
at four feet distant from each other, in patches of three 
in the middle of the frame; each of these clumps of 
three will give from twenty to thirty fruit at the least, 
if of a good, prolific and hardy sort, such as the Tele- 
graph, Cuthill’s Black Spine, or some of the long ridge 
kinds; but either of the two sorts named will do well 
through the summer, and produce fruit worth 4d. each 
wholesale. That would give about 10/. for Cucumbers. 
So that after the first season a remunerative return 
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