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Cannell & Sons’ Complete Seed Guide. 
GENERAL LIST OF VEGETABLES. 
YOU OUGHT TO COME AND CAST YOUR 
THEY ARE 
OVER THE BEST VARIETIES WHEN 
GROWING. 
THE GERMINATING QUALITIES OF ALL OUR SEEDS ARE TRIED BEFORE SENDING THEM OUT. 
Those of our esteemed Patrons who have proved the value of our Collections of “Perfect Seeds, 
we respectfully request to acquaint their Friends of our Firm. 
PEAS. 
{Pisum Sativum.') LEGUMiNOSiE. 
CULTURE. — Trenching or deep digging is highly necessary for Peas, in 
fact, all vegetable culture j even this is nearly always done ns unwisely as 
can be. Take all the top good soil off and throw in on the second trench, 
keeping the top on the top, and then thoroughly break up the lower spit (adding 
plenty of manure), which is generally very inferior, another foot: this done, the 
ground is then of double value — in faet, every inch of soil should be done thus, and 
then our crops would bo for ever considerably more productive. The ground should 
be well pulverised and enriched with good manure, burnt rubbish, and lime. The 
earliest varieties may be sown about the second or third week in November, or first 
week in December, another sowing in January, and continuous sowings in the order 
they stand, every three weeks, up to the end of July. Sow in rows four to seven feet 
apart (according to height, which varies wonderfully); for instance, when about five 
or six inches above ground, thin out if required, and properly stick. We find boards 
edgeways along the rows on the windward side capital protection. In a dry summer 
like 18a3, when the Pea season was brought to a premature close, tlie advantages 
that may be derived from itlanting them in trenches were more apparent than usual. 
On soils of a light and burning nature, this is the only way whereby good crops 
of this vegetable lua)" be ensured If the trenches are taken out in the winter time, 
and the soil laid up on each side of them, it will sweeten, and when the time comes 
for sowing, be in a much better condition than digging can bring it to. If the refuse 
from the rubbish heap, mixed with its own bulk of manure, be laid in the bottom of 
the trenches, the roots will find their way into it, greatly to their benefit, when dry 
exhaustive weather comes. The difference in the yield of peas grown in this way is 
great compared to the ordinary method. 
Hy sowing seeds of some of the early kinds in July, a late picking of Peas may 
be hud until the frost sets in. 
The general height is here given of the various kinds of Peas, but, of course, 
the season and quality of the soil will cause a difference. 
SECTION I., or EARLIEST VARIETIES. 
Height Per qt. 
in feet. a. d. 
Cannells’ “ English Wonder.” — Valuable first early Pea we 
have no hesitation in repeating all we said of it last season. It is, 
without doubt, the finest dwarf wrinkled early Pea, as we think 
the unsolicited testimonials and extracts from the various gardening 
papers will prove. The haulm grows from 1 ft. to IG ins. high, 
and is covered with beautiful curved dark green pods, produced 
in pairs, literally packed with 8, ff, and in many cases 10 and 11 
peas of first-class flavour when cooked 1 - 3 
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Best Dwarf Variety in Cultivation. 
