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THE GARDEN AND ITS FRUITS. 



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Podded, productive and good quality ; Dwarf-blue Imperial, highly recom- 

 mended as a summer pea. The following are larger sorts, and are highly 

 recommended : Champion of England ; Fairbcard's Nonpareil ; Champion 

 of Scotland ; Eugenic ; ]S"apolcon ; Missouri Marrowfat ; Large Wiiite Mar- 

 rowfat, a late sort; Blackeyed MaiTOwfat, an excellent kind, M'orthy of gen- 

 eral cidtivation ; British Queen, very prolific, long podded, and fine fla- 

 vored ; to which add the sugar pea, with edible pods. 



Judging from the little attention paid by many farmers to the cultivation 

 of garden peas, we suppose they look upon them as luxuries, only to be in- 

 dulgcxl in by a few, except in very small quantities. In this they are quite 

 in error. There is nothing grown that is more nutiitious and wholesome, and 

 much more attention should be paid to their cultivation, so as to have a full 

 daily supply, early and late. The first planting should be made just as soon 

 as the ground can be Avorked in spring, upon ground well manured the year 

 before, or else with very fine old compost or guano in the hill, but not in 

 contact with the seed. In small gardens, or where ground is scarce for early 

 crops, plant potatoes and peas together. Land can not be too rich for peas, 

 but if it is the richest of crude manure, more vines than seed will grow. 

 Ashes and plaster upon peas while growing, when a few inches high, will 

 help them remarkably. Plant in double rows, a foot apart, so as to set 

 bushes between. The largest sorts require four to six feet between the lines, 

 and we have found it advantageous to put them wide apart and plant a row 

 :if potatoes between. Tou want a pint of seed of the dwarf sorts, in a 

 double row, fifty or sixty feet long. The large growing sort will take a pint 

 to a hundred feet. 



Pea-bugs injure but do jiot destroy the germination of seed peas. It is 

 recommended to keep 'them in sealed bottles, and if a piece of gum cam- 

 phor as large as a pea is put in, it will destroy all bug life. One wiiter 

 recommends planting peas five inches deep early in the spring to prevent 

 the weevil. He jjhuits beets at the same time between the rows of peas. 

 Another writer recommends fall planting, or any time during winter when 

 there is no frost in the ground. 



534. Beans for the Garden — Good Sorts. — We recommend careful atten- 

 tion to the cultivation of garden beans, because they furnish such good, 

 cheap, palatal)le food. The following half dozen sorts are the best that we 

 can name of the dwarf or bush variety, M'hich give edible jjods, called snap 

 or string beans : 



The Early Valentine grov\-s excellent, long, tender pods. Early Yellow 

 Six-weeks is very productive. Earl}' Mohawk is not only prolific, but hardy. 

 The Early China is an old favorite ; it is a white bean, with red eye. Tlie 

 Thousand-to-One sort is also an old and very popular kind. As .young 

 bean-plants are easily killed by frost, you must not plant them till that 

 danger is past and the ground is light and warm. A pint of seed will ]ilant 

 a drill eighty feet Iqng. Cover liglitly without nu^nure, and never hoe when 

 the vines are wet, but stir the soil very often, and use plaster and ashes. 



