238 THE VEGETABLE CULTIVATOR. 



The following excellent mode of raising an early 

 crop of peas was communicated to the author, 

 through ,that most useful of all works on garden- 

 ing, London s Gardener s Magazine, a few years 

 since, and he has practised it with perfect success. 

 About the first or second week in November, select 

 six dozen pots of the 16 size, and fill them within 

 two inches of the top with light rich mould. Then 

 sow over the surface of each pot, with early frame 

 or racehorse peas ; but not so thick as to touch 

 each other : little more than a quart will sow the 

 whole. The pots are then filled up with the same 

 mould, and placed in a cool frame or vinery, pro- 

 tected from frost and the mice. In. the first week 

 in March they will be about six inches high, and 

 the pots well filled with roots. Having made choice 

 of a warm spot on a south border, they are now 

 transplanted, by digging a hole sufficiently large to 

 receive the contents of each pot ; care being taken 

 not to disturb the roots, but to preserve the balls 

 entire. They are planted in rows, four feet apart, 

 and two feet in the rows, in the alternate or quin- 

 cunx manner. If the nights should prove frosty, 

 cover each tuft with a flowerpot, and take it off 

 every morning, which prevents them from receiving 

 the least check. At the latter end of the month 

 the pots are taken away, and the peas are sticked, 

 each tuft separately, and inclining a little outwards 

 at the top, to allow the plants plenty of room to 

 spread. This method is quite applicable to all 

 dwarf-growing peas, which will never be found too 

 thick : the air having a free circulation round each 

 tuft, they begin bearing nearer the ground than 



