The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



prostrate vines which must be hfted or looked 

 under in search of pods. Wire netting furnishes 

 a better support than brush and where the gar- 

 dener is a woman is much pleasanter to work 

 about. Brush has an unpleasant habit of catch- 

 ing on the clothing and twisting around, often 

 to the injury of the vine, but the netting gives a 

 firm support, to which the vine readily attaches 

 itself. 



In the home garden the best way to plant 

 peas is in double rows a foot apart, making the 

 trench about three inches deep and dropping the 

 peas as evenly as possible. Early sown peas 

 do not require 'as deep planting as the wrinkled 

 sorts which may be planted four or five inches 

 deep to avoid blight. As the wrinkled sorts are 

 very tender they should not go into the ground 

 before corn planting time and not then unless 

 the nights and soil are warm. 



An excellent arrangement for a succession of 

 peas in the home garden is to prepare the rows 

 by trenching in manure and then make two fur- 

 rows a foot apart and in one furrow plant the 



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