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mcnts, which they have no unwillingness to commu- 

 nicate, 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 distinctions there is no great 

 profit; a law of nature is perpetually against the tri- 

 fler; for by the intermingling of pollen his catalogues 

 are soon confounded. 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. For late 

 crops sow dwarf marrowfat or blue Prussian, both of 

 which are excellent, and grow only to a moderate 

 height. Those sorts which require staking seven 

 feet high are a pest, as they shadow so much of the 

 ground, or become, if not duly supported, unfruitful 

 by falling in heaps over the stakes and choking one 

 another. The early-frame may be sown about the end 

 of October, along a south wall or on a warm border, 

 to stand the winter. As they generally prove but 

 thin and low, and are soon removed, little injury is 

 done to the trees. As the crop is precarious it is as 

 well not to be troubled with more than a pound of 

 seed sown in this way. The pea agrees well with 

 transplanting; and for the earliest crop it is much 

 surer to raise seedlings in thick rows under a frame, 

 to be planted out in the end of February. For a 

 later crop, seed may be sown on the open ground at 

 the same time; and onwards to the first of July you 

 may sow for a succession of crops, according to your 

 demand, observing to make the last of an early sort. 

 The chief thing in the management of peas is to 



