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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AUGDST 18, 1910. 



. . . TRY MY . . 



Xillili:^ OF THE ^AtiliEY 



3038-40-42 WEST MADISON ST 



GHICiAGO 



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Giving the largest number and biggest bells all the 

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injured, often so much so as to make 

 the picking of them for culinary uses 

 unprofitable. Again, the good appear- 

 ance of the pods in the basket is very 

 dependent upon evenness of form and 

 maturity, a comparatively slight dif- 

 ference in the form or the age of a few 

 pods ruining the effect of the whole. 

 Lastly, any overripe or off-colored pea 

 is made more conspicuous and objec- 

 tionable by cooking. 



For these reasons, evenness in size 

 of plant and in date of maturing is a 

 more important element of value in gar- 

 den peas than in most other vegetables. 



Cultural Bequirements. 



The pea plant, like that of the bean, 

 is very materially influenced as to habit 

 of growth and maturity by soil condi- 

 tions, and in the pea changes due to 

 this cause are transmitted through the 

 seed seemingly with cumulative force. 

 It is consequently very important that 

 all of the plants of a culture for seed 

 should be as nearly uniform in size 

 and maturity as possible. Often a field 

 which has been recently cleaned of 

 forest or one which has been heavily 

 manured will yield a large crop of 

 seed, which, however, will not be of 

 the best quality because of lack of uni- 

 formity in the size and in the earliness 

 of the producing plants. 



The best crops of seed peas, as re- 

 gards both quality and quantity, can 

 usually be grown by turning under old 

 timothy sod on a uniform, well-drained, 

 clay or clay-loam soil. Uniformity in 

 character of the soil on which the crop 

 is to be grown is not of greater im- 

 portance than that its preparation 

 should be such as to put it into good 

 tilth and to make it as even and uni- 

 form in composition and physical con- 

 dition as possible, and the seed should 

 be 80 planted as to secure evenness iri 

 germination and in the growth of the 

 young plants. 



Seeds... 



Cauliflower* Red Cabbii,ge* 

 Brussels Sprouts ' 

 Radish, oval, ro-st'-red, white tipped 

 The Best for Xmas ForcinK 



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D. T. POULSEN, Seed Grower 



70 Roskildevej, Copenhagen, Denmark 



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No plant responds more readily to 

 good preparation and culture of the 

 soil than the pea, but its habit of 

 growth and the cultural methods used 

 are such that thorough preparation 

 should be given before the seed is put 

 in the ground. 



Not only the growth of the plant 

 but the harvesting of the crop in good 

 condition is very dependent upon 

 favorable weather, and in most sections 

 of this eountrv where seed peas are 

 largely grown there is much more like- 

 lihood of the early-planted crops escap- 

 ing unfavorable conditions than those 



which are planted later. It is therefore 

 very desirable that the seed should be 

 sown as early as the ground can be 

 put into good condition, and it will gen- 

 erally be desirable that the field, par- 

 ticularly if it be in sod, be plowed in 

 late fall or early winter, which would 

 have the further advantage of destroy- 

 ing many cutworms and other injurious 

 insects. The ground should be worked 

 and the seed sown as early in the spring 

 as possible, but one should not permit 

 the desirability of early planting to 

 tempt him to sow before the ground 

 has had the best possible preparation. 



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 C a b b a g e 9 



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