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THE NEBRASKA CULTIVATOR 
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Superstitious Beliefs About Peas. 
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. 
Peas are sacred to Frey a, almost vying 
with the mistletoe in alleged virtue for 
lovers. In one district of Bohemia the 
girls go into a field of peas and make there 
a garland of five or seven kinds of flowers, 
all of different hues. This garland they 
must sleep upon, lying with their right ear 
upon it, and then they hear a voice from 
underground, which tells what manner of 
men they will have for husbands. Sweet 
peas would doubtless prove very effectual 
in this kind of divination, and there need 
be no difficulty in finding them of different 
hues. If Hertfordshire girls are lucky 
enough to find a pod containing nine peas 
they lay it under a gate and believe they 
wiirhave for a husband the first man that 
passes through. On the borders unlucky 
lads and lasses in courtship are rubbed 
down with pea straws by friends of the 
opposite sex. These beliefs connected with 
peas aae widespread. 
Mr, I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,—I see a good 
deal about nitrate of soda in the Seed-Time and. 
Harvest, and would like to have some one in the next 
number tell us how to use it and where to get it. 
If it is as good and cheap as some of your correspond¬ 
ents assert, we all want to use it. Yours Truly, 
. C. Farnham. 
Vienna, June 22, 1885. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,— I must write 
a word of commendation in regard to the way I am 
suited with my connection with you the present year 
as agent for your valuable seeds. I have not had a 
word of complaint from any one who bought your 
seeds of me, and I certainly cannot complain, as 
I planted seeds of other growers by the side of 
yours, and yours are far ahead in growth, while a 
larger amount of your seed§ grew. I have the best 
cabbage plants I ever raised, and I have raised them 
for market seven years. I find that good plants 
make a good market, for I expected to spare forty 
or fifty thousand plants for shipment this year, but 
I will not be able to spare any, as I can sell all I 
have ri^Jht from the beds. I think I will have a big 
trade in seeds another year, as all who see mj r gar¬ 
den want to know where they can get seed that will 
grow the way mine does. 
Respectfully, M. D. McCorkle. 
