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PEA 



PEA 



though the superior parts of the 

 limbs are often unatTected by the 

 disease, and are only destroyed by 

 being cut off from the main stock. 

 This disease takes place, when a 

 warm winter, especially a warm 

 February is followed by a cold 

 March. He thinks that manuring 

 and high cultivation are the causes 

 of the disorder, by causing the sap 

 to flow too exuberantly when win- 

 ter relaxes a little of its rigour. 

 The remedy he proposes is to let 

 the trees grow naturally, with 

 shrubs and grass about their roots-, 

 but we doubt exceedingly both as 

 "to the supposed cause of the evil, 

 and the proposed remedy. 



PEASE, Pisum. The varieties 

 are so numerous, that I shall 

 not undertake to distinguish 

 them. They are cultivated in 

 gardens and in fields. The gar- 

 den culture is thus : After the 

 ground has been well dug, raked 

 and levelled, mark it out in double 

 rows one foot apart, and leave in- 

 tervals of three feet between the 

 double rows, so that when they are 

 brushed, there may be a free pas- 

 sage through the intervals. Open 

 the trenches three inches deep with 

 the head of a rake, or with a hoe ; 

 scatter in the pease at the rate of 

 about one to an inch, or nearer to- 

 gether if you have plenty of seed ; 

 and then cover them with a rake. 

 Or small marks may be made for 

 the rows, and the pease pricked in 

 with a finger to the same depth, 

 and the holes filled with a rake. 

 The former method is best, as the 

 mould about thenease is left light- 

 er ; atid it is more e^ypeditiously 

 performed. 



The ground should be hoed,and 

 kept clear of weeds; and when the 

 young plants are six inches high, 

 the stems should be earthed up a 

 little, and each double row filled 

 with brush wood, so that each 

 plant may climb, and none of them 

 trail upon the ground. The brush 

 should be set strongly in the earth, 

 or they will not bear the weight of 

 the plants in windy weather. I set 

 the larger bushes strongly between 

 the rows, making the holes with a 

 crow bar; and then the smaller 

 bushes in the rows as leaders. 

 The latter may be sharpened a lit- 

 tle at the points, and pushed in by 

 hand. They will be the more 

 fruitful for brushing or sticking, as 

 well as more sightly, and more 

 conveniently gathered. But the 

 low dwarf kinds seldom need any 

 supporting. 



Whatever be the sort, no weeds 

 should be suffered to increase 

 among them ; and the alleys should 

 be hoed deep once or twice after 

 brushing. But the soil should not 

 be very rich, lest the plants run 

 too much to haulm. The most 

 hungry part of a garden answers 

 well for pease. 



The earliest sorts of pease will 

 somtimes be ripe in June : So that 

 a crop of potatoes, turnips, or cab- 

 bages, may be had after them. 



For field pease, land that is 

 newly ploughed out of sward is 

 generally accounted best ; and 

 land which is high and dry, and 

 has not been much dunged. A 

 light loamy soil is most suitable for 

 them ; and if it abound with slaty 

 stones it is the better. But they 

 will do in any dry soil. The 



