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about many of the early kinds ; one ; 

 good variety is all that is required in a I 

 small garden, and for one combining ! 

 all the good qualities of a pea the Early \ 

 Conqueror, 3 feet high, is the best. The \ 

 Early Warwick, Prince Albert, Dane- \ 

 croft Rival, Shilling's Grotto, &c., are | 

 also all good, well-known peas, where 

 variety is required. The best varieties j 

 to succeed are the Blue Scimitar, 2% to > 

 3 feet high ; Champion of England, a j 

 first-rate pea, 4 to 5 feet high ; Re- \ 

 liance Marrow, to 7 feet high ; British \ 

 Queen, 6 to 7 feet high ; Bishop's new j 

 Long-pod Dwarf; all of which are first- j 

 rate peas to succeed each other from ' 

 May till November. There are many i 

 other good varieties, such as the Au- 

 vcrgne, 4 to 5 feet high ; Spanish Dwarf, 

 1 to 2 feet high ; Banksian Blue, 2 to*3 

 feet high; Ringwood Marrow, 4 to 5 j 

 feet high ; Blue Imperial, 3 feet high ; 

 Blue Surprise, 4 to 5 feet high ; Wood- 

 ford Marrow, 3 feet high ; Knight's Tall 

 Marrow, 7 to 8 feet high ; Knight's 

 Dwarf Green, 3 feet high ; Tall Green, 

 6 to 7 feet high ; Mammoth Tall Green 

 Marrow, G to 7 feet high ; Dwarf Green 

 Marrow, 3 feet high, and Hair's Dwarf 

 Green Mammoth, 4 feet. 



One quart of an early variety of pea 

 is quite sufficient for sowing a row 100 

 feet in length ; half-a-pint less sown in 

 the same distance of the blue varieties; 

 and one pint of the large and tall kinds 

 are sufficient where the soil is rich, 

 well pulverized, and pretty free from 

 slugs, &c. 



Soil. A soil moderately rich and 

 open is best ; rather inclining to strong 

 for the lofty growers and main crops, 

 but for the early and late ones, light 

 and dry. Dwarf varieties will grow on 

 poorer and lighter soils than the others. 



Early Peas. The best mode of ob- 

 taining these is according to the follow- 

 ing plan, suggested by Mr. Bishop, 

 gardener to C. Baldwin, Esq., of Cam- 

 berwell : 



In the last week of January, cut some i 

 turf in strips of three inches in width, i 

 the length depending on the width of j 

 the hotbed in which they are to be 

 placed. Lay the pieces of turf in the 

 frame grass downwards, close together, 

 then make in the centre of each piece 



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of turf, by pressing it with the edge oi" 

 a board, a drill, in which sow the peas, 

 which soon come up, and then take 

 the lights entirely off in the daytime 

 unless very cold, and shut them down 

 at night. Keep them close till the 

 beginning of March. When the peas 

 are to be planted in the border, lift the 

 box entirely off, and the strips of turf 

 in which the peas be well rooted, 

 and place them on a hand-barrow, and 

 take them to the border for planting, 

 which do in a drill cut so deep that 

 they shall be about an inch lower than 

 they were in the box. It may be neces- 

 sary to protect them from frost and 

 cool winds at first, and this may be 

 done by putting some short sticks 

 along the rows, and laying some long 

 litter or cuttings of evergreens over 

 them. Gard. Chron. 



Solving. In January they may be 

 sown in sheltered borders, and larger 

 supplies in an open compartment, and 

 thence continued throughout February 

 and until the end of May, once every 

 two or three Aveeks. 



For the first production in the follow- 

 ing year, a small sowing may be made 

 at the close of October, and repeated 

 about the middle of November and 

 December, though it often happens 

 that these are scarcely a week forwarder 

 than those inserted in the following 

 February. 



Sow in drills, or by the dibble in 

 rows, at a distance proportionate to the 

 height to which the variety grows, as 

 well as according to the season. Dwarfs 

 at two feet, for the early and late crops, 

 but three feet for the main ones. Mar- 

 rowfats at three-and-a-half or four-and- 

 a-half; Knight's Marrowfats and other 

 gigantic varieties at six or eight. Peas 

 not intended to be supported, require 

 the least room. At the early and late 

 sowings, the seed should be buried an 

 inch deep, but for the main crops an 

 inch- and-a-half. With respect to the 

 distances it may be inserted in the row, 

 of the Dwarfs, two in an inch ; Blues 

 and other middle-sized varieties for the 

 main crops, three in two inches ; the 

 tall and Knight's Marrowfat, as well as 

 others of similar stature, full an inch 

 apart. The best mode is to sow in 



