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 row, they will infallibly rot, before they nre fit for the 

 table. 



Let your early Hotfpurs be fown in February, to be 

 fucceeded by tlie Spani/h Morrato. In y^/^ril and Aday 

 will be the proper feakm for fowing large Pcafe, inch as 

 the Marrowfats, Rouncival?, Role, Egg, Crooked Sugar- 

 Peafe, and Dutch Admiral Peiife. 



For thefe large Peafc, particularly the Egg and 

 Marrowfat, let the drills be made to the depth of 

 four inches, and one foot the diftance between the firft 

 two or double drill, and between each double drill, let 

 there be a fpace of feven feet, or more, where ground 

 can be fpared, as air and fun-fliine greatly contribute to 

 their well-bearing, and this dillance gives room for ga- 

 thering the pods from the higher brarrches, without in- 

 juring the haulm. Your drills being ready, and your 

 "diflances laid out, you muil provide yourfelf with the 

 following compon:, that is, one part ol well-rotted dung, 

 and two parts oi^ un-flacked lime, well wrought toge- 

 ther; this for a poor foil, as in a rich, the dt.ing would 

 make the Peafe run too much to haulm : tiiis is to be 

 laid in the bottom of the drills, to the depth of two 

 inches; but before you fow the feed, draw fome of the 

 garden m.ould lightly over this comport ; this Avill protect 

 the feed from irs heat and firft fermentation, b'lt by the 

 time the Pea fends its fibres into it, it will be fufficient- 

 ly meliorated, and contribute greatly to the fuccefs of 

 the crop. In good foils, a light fprinkling of lime only 

 is nectflary, obferving always fo to manage your drills, 

 that the lafl covering of the Peafe fivill be no more 

 than two inches deep. Turf-afhes, fuch as have been 

 preferved under cover, and mixed with lime, in this 

 proportion, viz. one fhovelful of afl-.es 10 two of lime, to 

 be laid two inches deep in the drills, will give fine crops 

 ot large Peafe. The feed of the large Pea is to be fown 

 at the dillance of one inch, Pea from Pea, and then to 

 be covered with the garden-mould, to the depth above 

 pireded. Tl.e two firft landings of the Peafe in the double 

 dri.l are to be drawn from the one-foot fpace between the 

 rows, and the thud, before flaking, from the two outer 

 fides, and fo much mould is to be laid in from them, as 

 w ill fill the infidc, to rife above the former landings ; that 



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