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may be sown two weeks later; therefore would advise, never to sow 
seeds till the ground is in a good dry state, and proper condition to 
receive them. 
Sowing Peas. 
Towards the latter end of this month, prepare a dry and well si- 
tuated piece of ground for an early crop of peas, the early-frame, 
early Charleton, and Golden hot-spurs, are the kinds most suitable 
for this crop, but more particularly the first, though the others are 
excellent, and will immediately succeed the early-frame. 
Sow each sort separate, and pretty thick, in rows or drills three 
feet asunder, covering them not more than about an inch and a half; 
or if the ground be very loose and light, too inches deep; but if it 
is of a stiff nature, one inch will be sufficient. 
But, in order to give the first early crops a greater advantage, 
prepare a south border of dry light earth for their reception, and 
raise the earth into narrow sloping ridges, about a foot broad at the 
base, and nine inches high and at the distance of three feet from 
each other; ranging these in a south west direction, from the north 
side of the border; then on the easterly sides of these ridges, 
about half their height, sow your drills of peas, giving them the 
same depth of covering, as above directed. In this situation, they 
will have all the advantage of the morning and mid-day sun, lie dry, 
and will consequently advance in vegetation, much more rapidly, 
than if sown in the ordinary way. 
Raising Peas in Hot-beds, Sfc. 
Where a few peas are particularly required, in the most early 
season, they may be obtained by sowing some of the early dwarf 
kinds in a hot-bed, to remain, or rather to be transplanted from that 
into another; either of which methods, should be performed early 
in this month, if neglected in last. These may be sown in a 
large hot-bed, in rows from the back to the front of the bed, to re- 
main: or it would be rather more eligible, to sow them thick on a 
small hot bed, to be transplanted into a larger, when about an inch 
or two high; and if you have any in an advanced state, you may now 
transplant them as above, to remain for bearing. But if you have 
the convenience of a Hot-house, or Forcing-house of any kind, you 
may easily and expeditiously raise them therein, by either sowing the 
seeds, or planting the plants, if in a state of forwardness, in large 
pots, and depositing these in convenient places in those houses. 
N. B. A large quantity of the fallen leaves of trees, laid round all 
your hot-beds, as high as the upper parts of the frames, especially 
those which contain tender plants, will afford them a very necessary 
protection, by preventing the frost from penetrating through the 
sides and ends of the frames, and at the same time they will produce 
a lasting and comforting heat in the beds. 
Planting Beans. 
By beans, I mean the Vicia Faba of Linnaeus, and not the P/m~ 
seolus vulgaris, or Kidney-beans. 
