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than three feet, and is particularly well adapted for 

 a first crop, coming into bearing ten days or more 

 before any other sort in cultivation. 



6. Bishop's Early Dwarf. The name is very ap- 

 propriate, as it does not grow (except in very warm 

 and moist seasons) to much more than a foot in 

 height. It is very early, most prolific, and, from 

 its dwarfish growth, a first-rate pea for forcing : it 

 requires no sticks for support, as a regular earthing 

 will be sufficient. All other sorts of peas at least 

 such as are here described are to be sticked, other- 

 wise the taller varieties must be excluded from 

 small and private gardens. Sticking not only, in a 

 great measure, protects peas from the weather, but 

 also causes them to produce a more regular and 

 abundant crop. 



All the earliest crops, more especially those in- 

 tended for culinary use, require to be sticked, or 

 they will not come nearly so early : but where large 

 quarters or acres are sown, sticks are out of the 

 question, and recourse must be had to a regular 

 earthing, and the final laying down to one particular 

 aspect, and if the lines or rows run from north to 

 south so much the better. 



7. Marquis of Hastings, a fine large pea, which 

 grows to the average height of four feet, and comes 

 in rather late. ,* 



8. Knight's Dwarf-wrinkled Marrow, one of the 

 best of peas, and only exceeded by the follow- 

 ing : 



9. Knight's Green Dwarf wrinkled, without ex- 

 ception the finest pea in cultivation. Its average 

 height is from three to three and a half feet; it 



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