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be of latticed boxes or baskets, should never exceed the 

 capacity of a bushel, when shipped from distances requir- 

 ing from two to three days in the transit. But even this 

 expense and care is well repaid by the high rates for 

 which the first lots are sold. When grown as a market 

 crop, Peas are never staked, and are sown in single rows 

 2 to 3 inches deep, and from 2 to 3 feet apart, according 

 to the variety, or the strength of the soil. When grown 

 in small quantities for private use, they are generally sown 

 in double rows, 6 or 8 inches apart, and staked up by brush, 

 for the taller growing kinds. 



The varieties are very numerous, but are in a great state 

 of confusion, the same kind being often sent out under a 

 dozen names. The following varieties are well defined, 

 arranged as our experience gives the order of merit for this 

 locality. 



EARLY VARIETIES. 



Daniel O'Rourke — Still stands at the head of all other 

 varieties, for the combined qualities of earliness and pro- 

 ductiveness. It is the variety mainly grown for market 

 in this district, and in fact, must be in all parts of the 

 country, judging from the immense quantities of it sold 

 by the seedsmen. It should be sown, for a field crop, in 

 rows from 2 to 2} feet apart, about H bushels of seed be- 

 ing required per acre. 



* Extra Early. — We find this to be a few days earlier 

 than the preceding, but not quite so large in the pod, and 

 hence not so profitable for market, but desirable as the 

 earliest sort for private use. 



