164 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. [chap. vi. 
and which remain green even when quite 
ripe; and the sugar peas, which are boiled, 
like kidney beans, in their pods. The soil 
for peas should be a light, dry, sandy loam, 
tolerably rich, but not freshly - manured; 
and, for this reason, they are particularly 
well adapted to succeed any of the cabbage- 
tribe, for which a great deal of manure is 
required. They should generally have an 
open sunny situation; and the early crops 
should be sheltered from the prevailing winds 
of the district. If peas are sown in freshly- 
manured, very moist, or clayey soil, they 
will run to haulm, that is, they will produce 
more leaves and stalks than peas: and, if 
grown in calcareous soil, they will boil hard 
and tough, even when young, and when old 
will never become floury. 
The early peas are small, and few in each 
pod, and with so little flavour, that we never 
have them sown in our little garden, but 
have the green Prussians sown early for a 
first crop, and again, a little later, for a 
second. The early dwarf peas are, indeed, 
of little use, except for forcing. They are, 
however, frequently sown in November and 
