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rows between. These will be out of the way before the 

 parsnips will crowd them. Make the covering not over 

 half an inch deep, and thin to four inches apart. Any 

 convenient part of the crop may be left to stand in the 

 ground over winter (as they are improved by frost), and 

 may be dug for marketing any lime alter the frost is 

 out. Parsnips will do better (and especially in case 

 they are to remain in the ground over winter) if sown 

 on ridges formed by lapping two furrows together, each 

 ridge planted with two rows. The ridges should be 

 thirty inches apart. 



Peas {Pisum sativu7n\ which have been in past years 

 highly profitable, now yield fluctuating and uncertain 

 returns, owing to the shipments of Southern growers. 

 Where cabbage is to follow, the early upright growing 

 sorts are usually sown i:i three and a half feet rows. 

 Three feet apart does well for American Wonder. 

 When squashes are to follow, two double rows are put 

 in three and a half feet apart, and then a space is re- 

 served about live feet wide for planting squashes, before 

 the peas are ready to be removed. 



When a suiticient quantity of manure is available, it 

 is always best to manure the peas broadcast before 

 sowing. When manure is applied in this way, the 

 peas will get as much of it as they need, and the bal- 

 ance will remain for the later crop. When it is in- 

 tended to cultivate in this manner, the early varieties 

 are always sown, as the late ones would not get off soon 

 enough. Sowings should be begun as soon as the 

 ground is fit to work, and continue at intervals of a 

 week or ten days until the first of May. 



