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tall and larger kinds of peas, particularly for 

 Knight's tall wrinkled, the egg-pea, and such like, 

 full an inch apart is required. 



In respect of earthing peas : such as are to have 

 sticks should have two earthings: the first when 

 they are a few inches high ; after the hoe is used be- 

 tween them, a little is to be drawn on each side ; and 

 the second, previously to their being sticked, when 

 six inches high. Those intended to be laid down 

 may also have a little earth drawn up on each side, 

 but not so much as to draw them from the side 

 where they are to be finally laid, which should be 

 the warmest of the row, and the earth should be 

 in sufficient quantity to keep them in that position, 

 by which means not only will the peas be strength- 

 ened, but the wind will have less power over them. 



Where a constant succession of peas is required, 

 they should be sown more or less every three weeks 

 or a month from February to July ; and, from 

 the hint here given of sowing early and late sorts 

 at the same time, a succession may be kept up, not 

 only during the summer, but till October, and in 

 some years until the middle of November ; for it is 

 a well-known fact (which the author has proved) 

 that Knight's tall green marrow, sown about mid- 

 summer, will produce a supply from the middle of 

 September till the end of October, or longer, should 

 the weather continue mild and open. If it so hap- 

 pens that the weather is very hot and dry when 

 peas are to be sown, the following hints should be 

 attended to : After the drills are drawn they must 

 be well soaked with water, and the peas likewise, 

 during the previous night, which will cause them 



