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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 to a professional builder of glass- 

 houses &c. and ask him to make yon 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 41. 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 101. for Cucumbers. 

 So that after the first season a remunerative return 



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