168 AMERICAN GARDENER. 



241, PEA. This is one of those vegetables 

 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 

 mention 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 

 Indian 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 England, the early frame-pea. 

 Then come the early Charleton, the Hotttfiuf, the 

 Blue Pea, the Dwarf, and Tall Marrowfats; 

 and several others, especially 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. 1 

 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 

 furrows ; 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 



