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make a beautiful house decoration, as the 

 stems are long and stiff. 



Sweet Peas, which no garden can do with- 

 out. Several books say, plant in autumn, 

 very late. I have twice sown two pounds 

 at this time, carefully following the direc- 

 tions, and not one single Pea came up the 

 following spring. Sweet Peas should be 

 sown in the spring the moment the frost 

 comes out of the ground, so that they may 

 become deeply rooted before dry weather, 

 ^iake a trench about a foot deep and a foot 

 wide. Have a good layer of manure in the 

 bottom of the trench, over which put a couple 

 of inches of earth, and over this earth put a 

 good layer of wood -ashes, again a sprinkling 

 of earth. Then sow the Peas, and cover them 

 with a couple of inches of earth. As they 

 grow, fill in the trench, and keep on hilling 

 up the plants until the roots are very deep. 

 It is well to mulch them with the clippings 

 of lawn grass. In this way the plants are 



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