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sticks) in hard frosts : but let the covering be imme- 

 diately moved aside when the weather becomes mild. 



Sticking peas is to take place as soon as they begin 

 to vine, (or put forth tendrils,) or appear too weak to 

 support themselves against wind. Let the sticks bfe 

 set strait, neat, and full; and by all means high enough 

 for the sorts; allowing sticks of three feet above 

 ground for the frame pea ; near five for the hotspur, 

 near six for the dwarf marrowfat, and seven or 

 eight for the larger sorts. If short of wood, stick- 

 ing only the S. or W. side of the rows may do, if 

 the wind does not set very contrary. Some people 

 sow double rows of peas at from eight inches to a 

 foot asunder, and set sticks only in the middle, earth- 

 ing the peas towards them. Peas that are to grow 

 without sticks, may be sown, the smaller sorts in rows 

 at two, and the larger at three feet asunder. But 

 use sticks if possible. 



The beginning of December, more peas may be 

 sown, and towards the end of January, or the be- 

 ginning of February, in order to have a full supply 

 at the first of the season : The earliest opportunity 

 in the new year should be taken, if those sown be- 

 fore have been cut off, or greatly injured. Peas 

 sown at the beginning of February are often not a 

 week behind those of November. Peas sown in the 

 winter months in cold wet soils, may have coarse sand 

 dug in the drills, to preserve them from rotting, and 

 otherwise help them ; some also may be strewed over 

 them. 



To have a full succession, peas may be sown (if 

 room) every three weeks in spring, and every fort- 

 night in summer ; and continued till the middle of 

 July, when if some hotspurs are sown in a very shel- 

 tered and sunny situation, they may answer. 



The late, and large sorts of peas, as the marrow* 

 fat; Moratto, American) &c. should be first spwp 



