VEGETABLE SEEDS 
GARDEN PEAS. 
Cultivation. — Peas do well in any good garden soil, but thrive best in ground deeply trenched and manured or a previous 
crop. Sow about an inch and a*half deep in double rows 6 or 8 inches apart. It is also a good plan to sow in trenches wide apart, 
with some other crop between ; by this means both sides of the rows get the full advantage of light and air, while the trenches are 
convenient for watering in dry seasons. They should be kept clean from weeds and earthed up twice in their growth. The height 
to which peas will grow in a great measure depends on the richness of the soil and the wetness of the season. The large wrinkled 
varieties are the sweetest and most delicately flavoured, but are not so hardy as the dwarf sorts, and therefore not so well adapted 
for small gardens. Those growing 3 feet high should not be nearer each other than 3 or 4 feet, and have stakes or bush for support. 
For an early crop a sowing of the Earliest varieties may be made in November, December, and January — they are hardy, and frost 
will not harm them. Sowings of Second Early varieties may be made in February, and the main crops in succession from March to 
the end of May. Late sowings for Autumn crops may be made, according to the season, until the early part of July. Peas should 
be gathered as fast as they become fit lor use. 
Earliest Varieties. 
Per Qrt. 
COOLING’S FIRST EARLY, a s. d. 
careful selection from Earliest 
of All; it is ready quite 3 or 4 
days before that variety, and 
produces longer and better 
filled pods; we offer it with 
every confidence as the best 
and mo.st prolific first early 
round variety with which we 
are acquainted 24 ft. 2 (i 
COOLING’S EARLY MARKET, 
ail early wrinkled Pea, which 
quickly follows the preceding 
variety. It is hardy and very 
productive ; highly recom- 
mended ... ... ... 14 ft. 2 (i 
CHELSEA GEM, an early 
wrinkled variety of superior 
quality 1 ft. 2 0 
GRADUS, a large podded first 
early wrinkled marrow of 
great merit ; produces deep 
green coloured pods which are 
as large and well filled as 
Duke of Albany 3 ft. 2 0 
PETER PAN. It is a tremend- 
ous cropjjei', pi'oducing long 
I',",-. rn;';i -»[*sa 
with peas of exqui.site flavour. 
Robust in habit, it will cer- 
tainly become the favomite 
dwarf early Pea 
PRIMO. The distinctive merits 
of this grand Pea are its 
combined with exceptional 
quality ; pods as large as 
Gradus, very hardy and abso- 
lutely fixed in chai'acter 3 ft. — 
Pint, 
s. d. 
1 f 
1 -1 
i 2 
1 2 
2 0 
2 0 
Cooling’s First Early— The best Pea for first sowing. 
