253 OF ESCULENTS. SECT. XV. 



not fet very contrary. Some people fow double rows 

 of peas at ten inches or a foot afunder, and fet flicks 

 only in the middle, earthing the peas towards them. 

 Peas that are to grow without flicks, may be fown, 

 the fmaller forts are two, and the Lrger at three feet 

 afunder. But ufe flicks if poffible. 



The beginning of December, more peas mav L :- 

 fown, and towards the end of January or the t can- 

 ning of February, in order to have a Jull fupply a: the 

 firft ot the feafon : The earlieft opportunity in the nczu 

 year mould be taken, if thofe fown before have been 

 cut oft, or greatly injured. Peas fown at the begin- 

 ning of February are often not a week behind thofe of 

 November. Peas fown in the winter months in ccid 

 wet foils, may have fome coarfe fetid dug 1:1 the drills, 

 to preferve them from rotting, and otherwiie help 

 them ; fome alfo may be ftrewed over them. 



To have a full fuccefftm, peas fhouid be fown every 

 three weeks in fpring s and everv fortnight in fummer : 

 which may be continued till the mich.ie of lni\ y when 

 if fome hot/purs are fowit in a flickered and funny 

 fkuation, they may anfwer. 



The late, and large forts of peas , as the marrowfat, 

 Mo ratio, American, 3ict Ihould be firft fown towards ttih 

 end of February, and not fooner. left they rot. 



The dwarf mar roue fats may be laid in the drills half 

 an inch afunder, the large marrowfats three quarters, 

 the Moraito an inch, and the American two inches, 

 and each fort covered two inches. The Lcadman'3 

 dwarf pea, for it's fmallTize, is admired at genteel 

 tables, and is fweet and fruitful; but rather longer in 

 coming in than the ufual late forts : It efcapes the 

 mildew better than other peas, and therefore is- proper 

 for the latefl crops in open ground. It requires flicks 

 only from two to three feet high, and ma) be fown 

 thicker than any other pea ; and till Midjiimmer, On 

 the fame day that hot/purs are fown, put in a crop of 



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