9 
5 
Al'iD 
¥EST 
at one picking. This is not the case with 
me. I have picked nice peas from the same 
vines every other day for twenty-five days. 
I believe it is $ great deal in the way they 
are cultivated that gives length to the pick¬ 
ing season. 
My mode of cultivating peas is to break 
up the ground very deep and work it 
mellow. Mark off the rows two feet and a 
half apart with a shovel plow. Two furrows 
are run in the same place as deep as the plow 
can be made to go. These furrows are then 
filled with a rich compost of one part stable 
manure and two of leaf mold, so that two 
inches of soil will make it level with the sur¬ 
face. The seeds are scattered in these fur¬ 
rows on the manure and then two inches of 
soil raked over them. As soon as they com¬ 
mence coming up they are cultivated with 
a shovel plow as deep as the plow can be 
made to go by bearing on the handles, then 
the soil is raked level. In this way they are 
cultivated every four or five days until cul¬ 
tivated six times. 
In picking care is taken not to injure the 
vines, the best filled pods being picked off 
every other day; or in other words, one-half 
of the rows is picked one day and the other 
half the next day, and so on. 
Varieties.—I will describe their habits 
in order of maturity. 
American Wonder. I can join with Mr. 
Marshall in saying this is one of the finest 
dwarf peas I have ever cultivated, and with 
me, very prolific. 
Philadelphia Extra Early matured same 
day as the above. This is truly a pea of 
great market value. Height 18 inches; very 
prolific, and of delicious flavor; bears its 
crop at two pickings. 
Carter's Premium Gem. One day later. 
More productive than Little Gem; height 15 
inches; very luscious in flavor; season not 
so long as Litttle Gem. 
McLean’s Little Gem grow r s to about 12 
inches high; very productive; of the richest 
flavor, and while Avith me it is not as valu¬ 
able a market pea as some others, it stands 
at the head for private families on account 
of its long season. 
Champion. Though late when it comes 
in market with its long, large and well-filled 
pods of the most delicious peas, the market 
bids adieu to all others. 
But if one should taste for all, the Gray 
Sugar, or so-called Edible Pod, stands "pre¬ 
eminent to all other peas. 
A Phantom from the Past. 
BY W. B. FOX. 
There’s a face that haunts my pillow 
Through the lonely hours of night, 
Bending o'er me, like a shadow, 
With its pleading eyes so bright. 
And from out their depths of azure 
Seem again those glances steal; 
Fraught with joy—Oh! blissful pleasure 
Their sweet spell once more to feel. 
’Mid the scenes, methinks, we wander, 
Of our childhood, as of yore; 
Sever’d hearts with love grow fonder 
As I press those lips once more. 
Other hearts may oft have spoken 
Whispered words of love to thee; 
Still, the spell remains unbroken 
That w r as wove in childhood’s glee. 
Darkly as the wmrld grows ’round me, 
Fiercely as the tempest’s rave, 
Never shall the love that bound me 
Perish but within the grave. 
Idle were the vow r s thou gavest, 
False the words thou promis’d true; 
Another’s love too soon thou cravest 
And the past all to undo. 
Hallowed are the hours of slumber 
When in dreams thy face I see; 
Ages seem the days in number 
When I’m waking—far from thee. 
Drifting o’er life’s troubled ocean 
I, a wmeck, am cast away; 
Sighing for a heart’s devotion 
Once that loved but to betray. 
Often o’er the hopes that perish’d 
Memory broods with tender care, 
Of the joys so watch’d and cherished 
Naught remains but dark despair. 
Hidden on this page before you 
Is a name that’s dear to me, 
In these lines it lies before you 
Like a gem beneath the sea. 
[To translate the address, read the first letter but 
one, in every alternate line, in connection with each 
similar letter throughout, and the name will thus 
appear.] 
A bashful printer refused a situation in 
a printing office where females are employ¬ 
ed, saying that he never tk set up’’ with a 
girl in his life. 
An American judge has recently declared 
that a man’s residence is where he gets his 
washing done. This is rough on the average 
bachelor. 
■ i 
