GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 51 



PARSNIP. 



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



CUZiTUBB. — 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. 



THB HOIfZiOW CROWN OB STTGrAB. — Is the kind generally cultivated, it possesses 

 all the good qualities for which other varieties are recommended. 



PEAS. 



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 Pois (Fr.j, Erbse (Ger.), Guisant (Sp.), Pisello (Ital.) 



CUZiTUBB. — 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 w^eather 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; 1^^ bushels to the acre. 



CABTBB'S TBZiBPHONB. — A wrinkled 

 English late variety; grows from about 

 4^ to 5 feet. The pods are very long, 

 containing from 8 to 12 fine flavored peas. 

 It is productive. 



BISHOP'S DWABF I.ONG POD. — An 



early dwarf variety; very stout and 

 branching, requires no sticks. It is produc- 

 tive and of excellent quality. 



CHAMPION OF ENGLAND. — A late 

 large vined and large podded sort. The 

 peas are sweet, tender and deliciously fla- 

 vored and are borne until late in the 

 season. 



BABLT TOM THUMB.— Very dwarfish 

 and quite productive. Can be cultivated in 

 rows a foot apart; requires no branches or 

 sticks. 



AMBBICAN WONDEE.— A wrinkled pea 

 of dwarf growth; is prolific, early, of fine 

 quality, and comes in after the Extra 

 Early. 



MELTING SUGAB. — This variety is 

 used either shelled or cooked in the pod, 

 like string beans, and when young is very 

 tender and sweet. 



EABLT ALASKA. — This is an extra 

 early pea, blue in color, the earliest by a 

 few day.s of any otlier kind: very sweet and 

 prolific; the best flavored pea "among the 

 Extra Early smooth podded kinds. Recom- 

 mend it highly. 



DWABF SUGAB. — A variety of which 

 the whole pod can be used after the string 

 is drawn from the back of the pod. 



TALL SUGAB. — Has the same quality 

 as the foregoing kind, only grows taller, 

 and the pods are somewhat larger. 



CLAUDIT. — They are the same color and 

 average about one and a half times as 

 large as the Alaska, the pods being in about 

 the same proportion. The vines usually 

 grow 2y2 feet high, bearing seven to nine 

 peas to the pod, and retaining their fresh- 

 ness a long time after picking. For earlS' 

 market planting it cannot be surpased 

 anywhere. 



ECLIPSE. — A very early wrinkled pea, 

 of excellent quality, for the home garden 

 and for shipping. 



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. 



PBINCE OF WALES.— Hardy, vigorous 

 and upright in habit. Flavor of first quali- 

 ty, which is true of nearly all white 

 wrinkled peas. Height 2% feet. Seed 

 white, wrinkled and flattened. 



EABLY WASHINGTON, EABL7 MAT 



OB FBAME, which are all the same thins-, 

 is about ten days later than the Extra 

 Early. It is very productive, and keeps 

 longer in bearing than the foregoing* kind. 

 Pods a little smaller. Very popular about 

 New Orleans. 



STECKLEB'S PIBST AND BEST. — 



(Pedigreed). — A selection made from the 

 Extra Early or First and Best; an im- 

 proved variety and selected grain; used 

 largely by market gardeners of New Or- 

 leans, and recommended highly for the 

 home garden. 



LAXTON'S PBOLIFIC LONG POD.— A 



green, narrow pea of good qualitv. Pods 

 long and well filled. It is second early, and 

 can be recommended for the use of market 

 gardeners, being very prolific. 



Steckler's Seeds Are True to Name and Quality. 



