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GARDENING FOE YOUNG AND OLD. 



the soil and the better the preparation, with a liberal 

 amount of manure, the more satisfactory will be the crop. 



Sow as soon as the land 

 can be got in good 

 working condition; the 

 earlier the better. Peas, 

 as a rule, cannot be 

 sown too early. The 

 succession of crops 

 should be looked after, 

 by sowing varieties that 

 are early, second early, 

 medium and late, rath- 

 er than by the time of 

 sowing. In the garden 

 we usually sow all ex- 

 cept the dwarf varieties 

 in rows, three to four 

 feet apart, and stick 

 brush on each side of 

 the row for the peas to 

 climb upon. This is 

 done for the conven- 

 ience of picking, and 

 it may be that a larger 

 yield is obtained. 



In raising them on a 

 large scale for picking 

 green for market, or for 

 the canning establish- 

 ments, peas are never 

 stuck or brushed. My 

 own plan is to drill in the seed in a double row 

 twenty-eight inches apart. "We take a wheat drill 

 which has coulters or tubes, seven inches apart; the 

 two outside tubes we wire together, so that they are 



Fig. 15. GREEN PEA PODS. 



