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deep, filled with adhesive soil ; this soil is drilled or grooved, and in the 

 grooves the peas are planted ; the boxes placed, as before, in a frame or 

 under the greenhouse stage. When fully up, cut the soil into portions, each 

 part containing a single row of peas ; plant the whole in the open ground, 

 bui-ying the whole of the soil containing the peas. 



441. Still another method is to use small 3-inch pots, in which clumps of 

 peas are sown, which may be turned out into the ground without disturbing 

 the roots. Where the garden soil is cold and heavy, it is advisable to adopt 

 one or other of these methods for securing early peas. 



442. For the earliest crop, none are better than Dillestone's early emperor 

 or Sangster's No. 1, which grow from three to four feet in height. It is very 

 necessary to mulch them, especially where the soil is light : it protects the 

 3'oung roots from frost, and saves watering and manuring the ground for the 

 next crop, pi-oducing also a better and much earlier crop of peas. 



443. In sowing peas, it should be either in double rows or in broad drills of 

 not less than six inches in width ; they should be scattered evenly, at regular 

 distances apart, so that there may be no crowding ; they should be earthed 

 up when about three inches high, and the sticks put to them before they 

 begin to be taller on one side than the other, but not till they really 

 reqviire it, as sticks are likely to draw them up weak, especially if they are 

 sown too thickl3\ After sticking, they should be mulched, spreading the 

 dung over a clear space of 18 inches on each side of the row, to the depth 

 of three inches. In sticking peas, plenty of small brush should be placed 

 near the ground, in order to conduct the peas upwards. It is useless to give 

 them support above, and leave them without the means of getting to it. 



444. Beans, like peas, can be sown in October, where the soil is light or well 

 drained, and well sheltered ; or, where the gi'ound is heavy, they may be 

 raised in a pit or frame by sowing three in a 4-inch pot now, and planting out in 

 March ; but if the soil is cold, and no conveniences are at hand for starting in 

 pots, they may be sown in the following manner :--Let the ground be laid in 

 ridges 3 feet wide, and 15 or 16 inches high, ranging east and west ; on the 

 south side of each ridge draw a drill halfway between the top and bottom, 

 in which sow the beans about 3 inches apart : by this means they will be above 

 the wet, catch every ray of sunshine, and will be stronger than if raised under 

 glass and planted out. Peas may be managed in the same way. When about 

 10 inches high, level the top of each ridge to the row of beans behind it : they 

 will not require earthing \\p again. If sown in October, a succession may be 

 sown in January, in the same manner ; and so on once a month till June : they 

 do not bear well if sown after that. Those sown on level ground should have 

 some earth drawn up to the roots when three or four inches high : this induces 

 them to emit fresh roots. They are sown in rows about 4 feet apart, which 

 leaves room for a row of broccoli, spinach, or lettuce between ; but those who 

 are not limited as to space had better allow 5 or 6 feet from row to row. On 

 light soils the usual method is to stretch a line along where they have to be 

 sown, and dib holes 4 inches deep, planting a row each side of the line, 4 inches 



