Oft raising an early Crop of Peas. 463 



I fill the pots to within half an inch of the top, water them, and 

 keep them in a brisk heat of from 65^° to 75°. As soon as they 

 have spread two rough leaves, I pick out the leading bud from 

 each plant close to the second leaf, and in a few days each plant 

 will put forth two shoots, and they are ready for plunging in the 

 hills, without breaking the balls of earth ; i. e. one pot in each 

 hill. When these shoots have made two joints they must be 

 stopped at the second, as before, and pegged down with a 

 piece of straight stick, 6 in. long, broken half through in two 

 places, [fig. 86.) Each shoot will now produce two more, 

 86 which never fail to show fruit at the first joint, and 

 must be stopped at the second ; which operation 

 must be done to all as they make two joints. Pick- 

 ing off the male blossoms, and setting the fruit as 

 they open, should be done in the morning, just 

 before the sun comes strong on the frames, until the weather 

 will admit of the lights being open a great part of the day; 

 watering should also be performed at the same time, shutting 

 the frame close for a few minutes after. 



Cuttings of the ends of shoots, about 4 in. long, taken off 

 close under a joint, and planted in a pot deep enough to 

 admit a flat pane of glass on the top, will strike freely (see 

 J. Mearns, in Encyclopcedia of Gardening), and come into 

 bearing sooner than seeds, but they are not of so long 

 duration. I am, &,c. 



Archdeanery, Brecon, Wm. P. Vaughan. 



April 22. 1829. 



Art. XV. On raising an early Crop of Peas, as practised in a 

 Garden at Chichester. By C. V. R. 



Sir, 



Mr. Main's letter, in Vol. VI. p. 555. has induced me to 

 communicate my method for raising an early crop of peas, 

 which I have practised for the last twelve years with perfect 

 success, and which will, I think, be found on trial decidedly 

 superior both to Mr. Main's mode, and to the old one of 

 transplanting peas, so well known to the gardeners in the 

 neighbourhood of London. My method is this : — 



In the first or second week in November, I select six dozen 

 pots of the 16 size, and fill them within 2 in. of the top with 

 light rich mould. I then sow all over the surface with the 

 early frame pea, but not so thick as to touch each other. I 



