GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



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PARSNIP. 



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Panais (Fr.), Pastinake (Ger.), Chirivia (Sp.), Pastinaco (Ital.) 



CUIiTURB. — Should be grown in deep, mellow soil, deeply spaded, as the roots are 

 long-, in drills twelve to eighteen inches apart; when the plants are three inches high, 

 thin out to three inches apart in rows. Sow from September to November for Winter, 

 and January to March for Spring- and Summer crops. One ounce to 250 feet of drill; 

 5 pounds to the acre. 



THE HOLIiOW CROWN OR SUG-AR. — Is the kind generally cultivated, it possesses 

 all the good qualities for which other varieties are recommended. , 



PEAS. 



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Pois (Fr.), Erbse (Ger.), Guisante (Sp.), Pisello (Ital.) 



CUIiTURi:. — The ground should be manured the previous year; if it is heavily 

 manured for the crop it causes them to grow more to vine and produces fewer pods. 

 For the first planting (which should be as early in the season as the ground can be 

 worked) select a light, dry soil. The drills should be from two to three feet apart, and 

 the seed planted two inches deep; when a few inches high, draw earth to them, and 

 repeat it again when more advanced. When the tendrils appear, provide them with 

 suitable stakes or branches, which should be of fan form, and placed in the ground in a 

 slanting direction; on the other side of the row, reverse the position of the stakes, which 

 affords the vines more protection and security. If the weather is dry at the time of 

 planting, soak the seeds twenty-four hours in water. Peas for a general crop should 

 always be planted much deeper than for the early one; they will not only produce larger 

 crops, but will remain in bearing condition longer; the roots penetrating to a greater 

 depth of soil, will always make a stronger growth, and are not so liable to be injured by 

 dry weather. One quart to 160 feet of drill; ly^ bushels to the acre. 



Carter's Telephone. 



CARTER'S TELEPHONE.— A wrinkled 

 English late variety; grows' from about 

 41/4 to 5 feet higli. The pods are very long, 

 containing from 8 to 12 fine flavored peas. 

 It is productive. 



BISHOP'S DWARP LONG POD. — An 



early dwarf variety; very stout and 

 branching, requires no sticks. It is produc- 

 tive and of excellent quality. 



CHAMPION OP ENGLAND.— A late, 

 large vined and large podded sort. The 

 peas are sweet, tender and delicately fla- 

 vored and are borne until late in the 

 in. 



EARLY TOM THUMB.— Very dwarfish 

 and quite productive. Can be cultivated in 

 rows a foot aijart; requires no branches or 

 sticks. 



AMERICAN WONDER.— A wrinkled pea 

 of dwarf growth; is prolific, early, of fine 

 quality, and comes in after the Extra 

 Early. 



MELTING SUGAR. — This variety is 

 used either shelled or cooked in the pod, 

 like string beans, and when young is very 

 tender and sweet. 



EARLY ALASKA. — This is an extra 

 ! early pea, blue in color, the earliest by a 

 I few days of any other kind; very pure and 

 i prolific; the best flavored pea among the 

 j Extra Early smooth podded kinds. Recom- 

 mend it highly. 



I DWARP SUGAR.— A variety of which 

 I the whole pod can be used after the string 

 I is drawn off from the back of the pod. 



j TALL SUGAR. — Has the same quality 

 as the foregoing kind, only grows taller, 

 and the pods are somewhat larger. 



j CLAUDIT. — They are the same color and 

 ; average about one and a half times as 

 I large as Alaska, the pods being in about 

 the same proportion. The vines usually 

 grow 2% feet high, bearing seven to nine 

 peas to the pod, and retaining their fresh- 

 ness a long time after picking. For early 

 market planting it cannot be surpassed 

 anywhere. 



ECLIPSE. — A very early wrinkled pea. 

 of excellent quality, for the home garden 

 and for sliipping. 



EUGENIE. — A white wrinkled variety of 

 fine flavor; it is of the same season as the 

 Advancer. Cannot be too highly recom- 

 mended for family use. 



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