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Black-eyed Marrowfat seems to bear the summer heat 

 better than most kinds, and is of good flavor. 



Hair's Dwarf Mammoth grows 2 feet high, with a large, 

 wrinkled seed, of a bluish green color, and the highest 

 flavor. Like Bishop's Long-pod, and Allen's Dwarf, the 

 peas should be planted from four to six inches apart in 

 the row, as they branch much. An improvement on 

 Knight's Dwarf Marrow. 



Knight's Tall Marrow.— This sort grows 6 or 7 feet 

 high, with large, dark glaucous green leaves, large, broad, 

 well-filled pods; seed large, thin skinned, tender, and 

 sugary, wrinkled, and of a bluish cast ; productive. The 

 rows should be six feet apart. 



TllC Sugar Peas are without the tough interior lining 

 to the pod when young, and they will snap in two as readily 

 as the pod of the kidney bean, like which they are prepared 

 for the table. There are two sorts : the Dwarf Sugar 

 about 3 feet high, with small crooked pods; and the 

 Large Crooked Sugar, with large, broad, flat, crooked 

 pods. The stems grow about 6 feet high. 



As some families prefer white, others blue, some dwarf, 

 and others tall sorts, it will not be difficult to make a 

 selection from the foregoing list. There are some fifty 

 sorts in the catalogues, but many of them are synonyms. 



Potash and phosphoric acid are large constituents of the 

 ash of the pea. Ashes and bone-dust, or superphosphate 

 of lime, especially the former, are likely to be the special 

 manures most needed. 



Culture. — A moderately rich and dry calcareous loam 

 is best suited for the early pea and the dwarf varieties. 

 The late peas and the lofty growers do better in heavier 

 soil, and a cool, moist situation. The manure should be 

 applied early the preceding autumn, to be well reduced by 

 the time the crop of peas is ready to feed upon it. In 

 poor ground, fresh stable manure is better than none. 



