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branches, that the plants may readily take hold without 

 falling on the gi'ound, and they should be prepared in a 

 fanned manner, so that the side branches extend only the wiay 

 of the rows ; for this purpose, no wood is so good as beech- 

 branches, as they naturally spread out like a fan. Some 

 advise that they should be placed on the most sunny side 

 of the rows ; at least towards the east or mid-day sun, where 

 the position or range of the rows admits ; for the sun will natur- 

 ally incline the plants that way, and they will more readily 

 catch the sticks, which should be placed at such distances in 

 the rows that the branches of each other may meet. Others 

 place a row of stakes upon both sides of the row, and by this 

 means the straw is better kept up than when only one row is 

 used. 



The difficulty of procuring sticks for Knight's marrow pea, 

 has deterred many persons from cultivating that excellent vege- 

 table. An anonymous correspondent, however, in the Gar- 

 deners' Magazine, considers that he has superseded that diffi- 

 culty by the following invention, which consists of an upright 

 stake, or standard of oak, three inches by one and a half 

 inch, and about seven and a half feet long. Holes are bored 

 through this stake with a half-inch auger, about three inches 

 distant. Some good branching pea-sticks are then procured, 

 from three feet to five feet long, and beginning at one side at 

 bottom, are placed in the holes in such a way as to make thera , 

 touch and form a com- -^r^ 

 plete fan. The oaken 

 Gtandard, when com- 

 plete, shows sufficient 

 pea-sticks for eight or 

 nine feet length of row, 

 six feet high. It is 

 driven about eighteen 

 inches into the ground, 

 so as not to be shaken 

 nor moved by the wind. 



The sticks generally used are elm, but hazel, or any other 

 which ia spreading, with small twigs or sprays will do equally 

 well. 



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