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It will be seen that the above plan is really taking three 

 crops off the same piece of ground, which will of course 

 require to be well manured. Do not forget that " the midden 

 is the mither o' the meal-kist." 



I am Sir, yours, &c. 



E. Roger. 

 Turf Inn, Kilmarnock, June 18. 1828. 



Art. XIV. On raising an early Crop of Peas, as formerly practised 

 in Tynningham Gardens, East Lothian. By Mr. Main, A.L.S. 



Sir, 



The indefatigable President of the Horticultural Society, 

 among his many valuable papers presented to the Society, has 

 one on the practicability of raising a first crop of peas, by 

 transplanting. On this same subject it may not be amiss, for 

 the information of your readers, to detail the practice of gar- 

 deners in Scotland forty years ago, particularly the never- 

 failing method followed by the late Mr. Thomas Thomson at 

 Tynningham, the seat of the Earl of Haddington. 



About the 10th of November, provide as many clean 24- 

 sized pots as may be necessary ; fill them with light rich com- 

 post ; divide the pots by a diametrically placed piece of broken 

 glass, slate, tile, or any thin bits of pales cut to length, thrust 

 down into the mould ; draw, with the two fore and middle 

 fingers united, shallow drills on each side the partitions. In 

 these sow the seed (the earliest sort) moderately thick ; cover 

 with the compost ; plunge the pots in a cold frame, in an open 

 spot, and protect them from mice and frost ; giving air on all 

 seasonable occasions throughout the winter. As soon as the 

 rigours of winter are over, they may be transplanted ; if under 

 a south wall the better. Dig a spit along and close to the 

 wall ; cut out a shallow trench within 5 in, from it ; turn out 

 the contents of each pot into or upon the hand ; withdraw the 

 partition, and separate the roots of the divisions which will be 

 found united at bottom with a knife ; then place the divisions 

 along the trench, earth up, and make all smooth. Stick them 

 immediately with light slender sticks previously prepared, and 

 about 2 ft. high. This will not only defend them from the 

 boisterous equinoctial gales which happen about that time 

 (middle of March), but also from frost. The peas are fit to 

 gather about the 1st of May, according as the spring is more 

 or less genial. 



I am, Sir, yours, &c. 

 Chelsea, Aug. 1829. J. Main. 



