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crops, thus making your ground do double 

 duty. Or growing the best and largest kinds, 

 like the Champion of England, giving them 

 brush and extra care, will compensate the gar- 

 dener, if he is not limited in land, and can ob- 

 tain a fair price through the season. For the 

 choice wrinkled varieties, picked young and de- 

 liciously fresh, people ought to be willing to pay 

 double price. With the majority who buy at 

 market, however, a peck of peas is a peck of 

 peas, whether it came from Long Island or 

 Norfolk a week ago, or that morning from a 

 neighboring garden, and price alone is con- 

 sidered. 



There is no use of trying to grow this vege- 

 table on a large scale, unless you are near some 

 village, and can employ a dozen pickers or more, 

 the day it is ready. The pods will become un- 

 salable almost as soon as small fruit if left on 

 the vines, and the difference of one day in the 



