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LXIX. On Transplanting Peas for Early Crops. In a Letter 

 to the Secretary. By Mr. Daniel Judd, F. H. S. 



Read March 16th, 1824. 



Sir, 



In looking over the last part of the Transactions* I observe 

 that Mr. Knight has written on the transplanting of Peas, 

 I beg leave to offer a few hints on the same subject, which 

 may perhaps convey some additional information. 



It has been an invariable rule with some of the old garde- 

 ners in this neighbourhood for many years, to transplant their 

 first crops of early Peas. I have been in the habit of doing 

 so for thirteen years, very successfully, with my first early 

 Peas, and also with my first large late Peas. 



Mr. Knight's method of sowing is superior to ours ; we 

 have not paid attention to the compost or to sowing them in 

 circles in the pots, but our practice is very simple ; the com- 

 post we use is as free from rotten dung as we can get it, the 

 Peas are sown generally all over the surface, and the pots are 

 placed either in cool frames or in moderate heat, as may be 

 deemed necessary. 



The time of sowing depends on the season, the earliest is 

 about the middle of January ; at the time of planting, the 

 ground which has laid in ridges during the winter is first 

 levelled down, and trenches are then cut through it by fine, 

 somewhat sloping, in the same way as for planting Box, and 



* Volume v. page S41. 



