PEA, 



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British Queen, — A wrinkled marrow Pea. of large size, and 

 luscious flavor, grows five to six feet high : a new Pea of great 

 excellence. 



There are twenty or twenty-five other varieties of the Pea, 

 but to go into a detail would be merely repeating what we 

 have already said. They are generally mere varieties of those 

 given, and so closely assimilated, that a name constitutes in 

 most instances the only difference. The above list embraces 

 varieties that become fit for the table in from six to ten weeks ; 

 and by repeated sowings, judiciously made, the garden will be 

 supplied with Peas from May to frost. We believe that there 

 is no vegetable in the catalogue so universally agreeable as 

 the Pea. We have never heard any one say they could not eat 

 well-cooked green Peas, and it should be an emulation to 

 have them always at least in their season. 



Culture. — The soil in which an early crop of Peas is sown, 

 should be light, dry, and well sheltered. I have had great 

 success with early Peas, by sowing a row along the south or 

 east side of a board fence. This is done as soon as the frost 

 is rat of the ground — in some seasons about the first of March, 

 while in others as late as the 19th. Such was the Spring of 

 I S 46. yet I had Peas fit for the table on the 17th of May. 

 This is no criterion of the earliness of the Pea, for in 1844 I 

 sowed Peas on the 30th of April, which were fit for the table 

 on the 10th of June, being within six weeks, and on heavy, 

 loamy soil. Ground for Peas should be well manured the 

 previous year : if it is heavily manured for the crop, it causes 

 them to grow more to straw than seed. As soon as they are 

 two inches high, draw earth to them, and when they have 

 grown a few inches more, repeat it again. When they are 

 eight or ten inches high, this earthing greatly protects the vines, 

 and keeps the wind from driving them about. After the final 

 earthing has been completed, stake them. The stakes, or 

 branches more properly, should be of a fan-form, and put in 



