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the object has long tried to acquire a relish for 

 this plant, in which, however, he has not been able 

 to succeed. The parsnip agrees with a deep and 

 rich but not recently manured soil. It may be 

 sown in March, either broadcast or in drills one 

 foot apart, and thinned to half that distance. It 

 is not injured by frost, and may be taken up as 

 required; or to have the ground properly cultiva- 

 ted, the whole crop may be gathered in October, 

 and pitted like potatoes. 



Peas. Nothing can be more idle than, to study 

 the endless varieties of peas. To collect parcels, 

 label, sow in patches, keep tallies, boil in several 

 pots, and write the taste in separate pages, is 

 scarcely consistent with the use of ordinary intel- 

 lect, or with the idea that life has other ends than 

 eating. But as there are always some minds which 

 have a predilection for such science, the result of 

 their experiments, which they have no unwilling- 

 ness to communicate, is one of the things which 

 may be safely taken upon credit to the saving of 

 one^s time. But with all this trouble of nice dis- 

 tinctions there is no great profit; a law of nature 

 is perpetually against the trifler; for by the in- 

 termingling of pollen his catalogues are soon con- 

 founded. Get seed from a respectable merchant 

 and raise a good crop, and you will never eat a bad 

 pea. 



For the first crop sow early- frame or Charlton; 

 the former is so named because, being the earliest, 

 it has been used for sowing under glass frames. 



