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which all men most like. Its culture is universal, 

 where people have the means of growing it. The ■ 

 sorts of peas are very numerous ; and I will men- ' 

 tion a few of them presently. — The soil should be 

 good, and fresh dung- is good m.anure for them. 

 Ashes, and compost, very good ; but peas, like In- 

 dian Corn, will bear to be actually sown upon dung. 

 Never were finer peas grown than there are grown 

 in the United States ; and, as we shall presently ' 

 see, ihey 7nay be had, in the open ground, in Long 

 Island, from first of June till the sharp frosts set 

 in. — The sorts are numerous, one class is of a small- 

 size and the other large. The latter grow taller, 

 and are longer in coming to perfection, than the 

 former. The earliest of all is the little white pea. ' 

 called, in Long Island, the May-Pea, and, in Eng- 

 land, the early frame-pea. Then come the early 

 Charleton, the Hotspur, the Blue Pea, the Dwarf 

 and Tall Marrowfats; and several others, espe- i 

 cially the Knight Pea, the seed of which is rough, i 

 uneven shaped and shrivelled, and the plant of i 

 which grows very tall. — All the sorts may be grown ( 

 in America, without sticks, and even better than j 1 

 with. I have this year (1819) the finest peas I ever I I 

 saw, and the crop the most abundant. And this is : 

 the manner, in which I have sown and cultivated l 

 them. I ploughed the ground into ridges, the tops ] 

 of which (for the dwarf sorts) were four feet apart ] 

 I then put a good parcel of yard-dung into the fur- i 

 rows ; and ploughed the earth back upon the dung. i 

 I then levelled the top of the ridge a little, and drew 

 two drills along upon it at six inches distant from 

 each other. In these I sowed the peas. When the 

 peas were about three inches high, I hoed the 

 ground deep and well between the rows and on each > 

 outside of them. I then ploughed the ground from " 



