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upon the old-fashioned Marrowfat, and now raise it exclu 

 sively. It will be iit for the table in from seventy to eighty 

 days after planting. KnighVs tall marrowfat is recom 

 mended in Hovey s Magazine (a standard authority), as of 

 &quot; delicious quality and producing throughout the whole sea 

 son.&quot; We have never had an opportunity of proving it. 



We prefer buying our seed to raising it. In this region 

 the pea-bug pierces every seed-pea, and, although the germ 

 is not usually destroyed by this depredator, the seed is 

 weakened, and the certainty of growth very much dimin 

 ished. If one must plant buggy peas, let them have scald 

 ing water poured upon them and turned off again imme 

 diately. The bug will be destroyed and the pea not injured. 



When peas are up they require but one or two hoeings, 

 as they soon shade the ground so as to prevent weeds from 

 growing. They should be well supplied with brush, strong 

 ly set in the ground. When peas are allowed to fall over, 

 they become mildewed and rot. This also happens when 

 the rows are planted so near together as to prevent free 

 circulation of air. 



When large quantities of peas are desired they should 

 be sown broad-cast, at the rate of about three bushels to 

 the acre more rather than less. It leaves the land in fine 

 tilth, smothering all weeds. Thirty bushels to the acre is 

 a fair crop ; but eighty-four, and eighty-eight, have been 

 taken. 



AUTUMN-PLANTED ONIONS. Onions for seed should be 

 planted in October ; and, like their more brilliant, but less 

 perfumed, friends of the tulip and hyacinth connections, 

 they will thoroughly root themselves during the autumn 

 and mild winter weather, and be ready for early work, the 

 moment the frost rises from the ground. 



