180 A HOME VEGETABLE-GARDEN 



allow for a sufficient supply for canning in the 

 early sowings. Begin putting in peas as soon as 

 the ground is workable and continue sowing every 

 ten days until midsummer. Not one pod need be 

 wasted. (Plate VII.) Whatever the season, 

 whatever the variety, there are never too many 

 garden peas. 



For the kitchen-garden there is a variety of 

 edible peas just suited to each season. After a 

 little experience, every gardener will have special 

 favorites. For the present, let us choose a quick- 

 maturing dwarf variety like First of All or Nott's 

 Excelsior for the first sowing. Very soon after- 

 wards, put in some long rows of the taller-growing 

 varieties like Prosperity, an excellent tall sort for 

 early sowing. When seeded at the same time as 

 the First of All, their bigger growth delays ma- 

 turity long enough so that, soon after the First of 

 Alls are gone, the Prosperitys are ready with an 

 abundance of large tender peas of most delicate 

 flavor. For the main crop sow the five-foot tall, 

 deeply rooted Telephones. They, in their turn, 

 will furnish a lot of big luscious-sweet peas. The 

 heavy-growing and heavy-cropping Champion of 

 England deserves the same honor in America as 

 a long-time first favorite. When kept in healthy 

 growth, this sturdy, heat-resisting, blight-defying, 

 wrinkled variety will provide a bountiful supply 

 of delicious peas of marrow-rich flavor, until 

 stopped by the frost. One more variety might well 



