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teen inches apart. When the plants are up two or three inches 
high, thin them to stand six or eight inches apart in the rows. 
A quarter of an ounce of seed is sufficient for a bed four feet wide 
and twelve feet long. The beds should be kept free from weeds, 
and frequently hoed through the summer. In autumn they will 
be fit for use. The Parsnip will stand the frost without injury, 
and are benefited thereby; for, after being frozen, their flavor is 
greatly improved. 
PEAS. ‘ 
1. Landreth’s Extra Early. 7. Large White Marrowfat 
2. Early Frame, 8. Peruvian Black-eye Marrowfat. 
Early Washington. 9. Knight’s Dwarf Marrowfat. 
Early May. 10. Knight's Tall Marrowfat. 
3. Early Charlton, 11. Matchless Marrowfat. 
Golden Hotspur. 12. Blue Prussian. 
4. Bishop’s Dwarf Prolific. 13. Dwarf Sugar, or Eat-pod 
5. Dwarf Blue Imperial. 14, Tall Sugar, or Eat-pod. 
6. Royal Dwarf Marrowfat. 
Peas should be sown as early in the spring as the ground will 
permit, in a warm dry situation, and covered about three inches 
deep. They are the most productive in a light, but rich soil, but 
may be grown, with care, upon almost any soil if it be well ma- 
nured and drained if inclined to be wet. Peas should be sown in 
double rows, nine inches from each other, as much ground will be 
saved by this method, and they only require half the number 
of stakes as they would when sown in single rows. The seed 
should be sown moderately thick, to allow for the depredations 
of insects or vermin, and having been covered, tread the surface 
of the soil lightly. As soon as the tendrils appear, stakes should 
be placed along the rows, from four to seven feet high, according 
to the growth of the different varieties. No. 2 is an excellent va- 
riety, but some ten days later than No. 1. No. 3 is a productive 
variety and succeeds No. 2. No. 5 is a luscious variety, and gen- 
erally much esteemed. Nos. 6, 7, 8, and 12 are very productive, 
and when sown at the same time with the early varieties, form an 
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