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should be done before the peas are six inches tall, 

 as they will find difficulty in climbing if once be- 

 coming incumbent on the ground. When brush are 

 used, many plant two rows, either six inches apart 

 or perhaps 12 inches, and if in a section where winds 

 are high, brush are leaned together to support each 

 other. 



Winter Forcing. — Bailey* reports investigations 

 in growing peas in forcing houses to determine 

 value as a commercial crop under glass. Experi- 

 ments showed that the tall or half dwarfed varieties 

 force readily in a cool house, yielding edible peas 

 in II or 12 weeks from the time of sowing. The 

 very dwarf varieties were found to yield too little to 

 pay for their growing. Extra Early Market and 

 Rural New Yorker gave satisfactory results. 



Varieties. — The number of varieties covering dif- 

 ferent types, seasons, etc., is legion. A single work 

 mentions over 240. Anticipating this particular 

 chapter, I secured all the different varieties offered 

 for sale by the following reputable seed concerns : 

 Peter Henderson & Co., Northrup, King & Co., D. 

 M. Ferry & Co., and W. A. Burpee. Through their 

 co-operation I was able to test out more than 100 

 varieties the same season, under similar conditions. 

 The results were satisfactory, and in the main I find 

 varieties as represented. Any one of these firms, 

 or other reputable ones, provide a formidable list of 

 varieties for different conditions, which will be 

 more than an average gardener will want. There- 

 fore, the reader who finds it hard to decide upon 

 varieties cannot do better than secure the latest cat- 



*N. Y. Exper. Sta., Cornell, Bui. 96. 



