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which all men most like. Its culture is universal, 

 where people have the means of growing it. The 

 sorts of peas are very numerous; and I will men 

 tion a few of them presently. The soil should be 

 good, and fresh dung- is good manure for them. 

 Ashes, and compost, very good ; but peas, like In- 

 dian Corn, will bear to be actually sown upon dung. 

 Never were finer peas grown than there are grown 

 in the United States ; and, as we shall presently 

 see, they may be had, in the open ground, in Long 

 Island, from first of June till the sharp frosts set 

 in. The sorts are numerous, one class is of a small 

 size and the other large. The latter grow taller, 

 and are longer in coming to perfection, than the 

 former. The earliest of all is the little white pea, 

 called, in Long Island, the May-Pea, and, in Eng- 

 land, the early frame-pea. Then come the early 

 Charleton, the Hotspur, the Blue Pea, the Dwarf 

 and Tall Marrowfats; and several others, espe- 

 cially the Knight Pea, the seed of which is rough, 

 uneven shaped and shrivelled, and the plant of 

 which grows very tall. All the sorts may be grown 

 in America, without sticks, and even better than 

 with. I have this year (1819) the finest peas I ever 

 saw, and the crop the most abundant. And this is 

 the manner, in which I have sown and cultivated 

 them. I ploughed the ground into ridges, the tops 

 of which (for the dwarf sorts) were four feet apart. 

 I then put a good parcel of yard-dung into the fur- 

 rows ; and ploughed the earth back upon the dung. 

 I then levelled the top of the ridge a little, and drew 

 two drills along upon it at six inches distant from 

 each other. In these I sowed the peas When the 

 peas were about three inches high, I hoed the 

 ground deep and well between the rows and on each 

 outside of them. I then ploughed the ground from 



