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Sow thicldy, as soon as the ground can be worked. 



Thin when well up, to six to nine inches. 



Culture. Weed and cultivate until the leaves cover 

 the ground. 



Dig in the fall, as needed, and before the ground 

 freezes store the winter supply in sand in the cellar, or 

 in pits. The rest, if left in the ground, will be good in 

 spring. 



Pests. For Parsley-worm and Web-worm use arse- 

 nites; apply early as soon as they appear. 



PATIENCE, or PATIENCE DOCK. See Sorrel. 



PEA (Pisum sativum). Peas are hardy annual vege- 

 tables, of short season and somewhat tender to heat, in 

 which they are likely to fail and mildew from lack of 

 moisture. In America they are almost exclusively plan- 

 ted outdoors where they are to grow, but in England 

 and Europe they are frequently either grown entirely 

 under glass, or started so and transplanted to the field. 

 If this is done in early spring, coldframes are probably 

 the best, as Peas are sensitive to heat. It appears from 

 Vilmorin-Andrieux and Nicholson that in France and 

 England Peas may be sown outdoors in the autumn 

 for an early spring crop, but that is never done in 

 America, as in our long winters the seed would spoil. 

 Management of Peas is largely with us a question of 

 type, Peas classifying into smooth- and wrinkled-seeded, 



