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are the best. They are very prolific, and, like the 

 Egg Pea and Spanish Marotto, very hardy, which 

 qualities render either of them very beneficial to 

 the cottager who can procure sticks to support 

 them, such being absolutely necessary for their full 

 production : the average height is about six feet. 



One property in the Roundcival pea is, that it 

 bears the droughts of summer better than most 

 other kinds Neither it, however, nor the Spanish 

 Marotto, is so delicate eating as many others, and 

 they are both now nearly out of date. 



The author has been induced to enlarge upon 

 the list of peas, in order that the public may be 

 guided in selecting such sorts as they may deem 

 most suitable for their gardens; he will only ob- 

 serve, to those who have but small gardens and 

 wish to make the most of them, that No. 5. in the 

 list may be selected for the first crops ; Nos. 10, 11, 

 12. and 15. for the second or medium crops; and 

 Nos. 9. 16, 17. and 25. for the third or latest 

 crops. 



Culture. The soil in which an early crop of 

 peas is sown should be light, dry, and the more 

 sheltered the better ; and if it had been well 

 manured the year before, so much the better, 

 fresh dunged land being more an enemy than a 

 friend to the peas sown upon it, as it causes them 

 to run more to haulm. 



The land for the later crops, or such as are sown 

 from March to July, should be (if possible) of a 

 more rnoist and holding nature; otherwise much 

 labour must be bestowed in watering during the 

 months of June, Jul}, and August. 



