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is not affected injuriously by frost after being stored, and is 

 less watery. See Analysis and Value, page 500. 



PEAS. 

 French, Pois. German, Erbse. Spanish, Guisantes. 



EARLY: Cedo Nulli. Canada. Emperor. Washington. 

 Frame. Petersburg. Warwick, &c., &c. 



LATE : Knight's Dwarf. Dwarf Blue Imperial. Royal 

 Dwarf. Dwarf White Marrowfat. Tall Marrowfat, &c., &c. 



BRIEF DIRECTIONS. 



Sow in drills from two to five feet apart, and about two inch- 

 es deep. When well up, hoe and draw the earth to them light- 

 ly, and set brush from three^to six feet high along them. 



Time : from November to February at the South. At the 

 North, from March to the last of May. 



All the first named are only sub- varieties of the same spe- 

 cies, and while some of them are to be preferred on account of 

 their superior earliness, it will be found a general rule that 

 the earlier the pea the poorer the crop. 



Of the early kinds named above, the Canada and the cedo 

 nulli are valuable for extra early ; for ordinary crop, the early 

 Washington, frame, Emperor, Petersburg, or Warwick, the last- 

 named, if genuine, being perhaps the finest flavored of early 

 peas when cooked and eaten freshly gathered. Delicacy of 

 flavor is generally a fugitive quality, and peas long gathered 

 or heated lose it. 



The finer varieties of peas are in general less abundant bear- 

 ers than those which are inferior. The combination of fair 

 quantity with good quality will be found in the early varieties 

 already commended ; and among the later kinds, in the dwarf 

 blue imperial, the royal dwarf, sometimes called Missouri mar- 

 rowfat, and the large white dwarf marrowfat. 



Of peas it may be remarked that, commonly, those which are 

 perfectly full and smooth are less sweet than those which are 

 wrinkled or misshapen, the degree of sweetness being usually 

 in proportion to the shrinkage of the seed in drying. Knight's 



