66 The Englijh Gardner , 
Of the Ordering of the 
KITCHIN GARDEN. 
And firjl of the Sowing of Peafe. 
\$i»" I"** Ake notice that the earlieft forts are for the moft: 
r I part as hardy, if not more hardy, than the moft 
■ ordinary Field-Peafe 5 they are fown after the 
•JBL manner of Feild-Peafe, or, which is moft futabie 
to onr purpofo, having only a deflgn of laying down rales or 
directions proper to Gardening 5 you are to dig your ground, 
or ifit be much, and lye convenient, you may ploughit very 
well and harrow it, and then you may,as fome do,with a kind 
©f a plough called a drill (as I think) and one horfe to draw 
it, make foveral Trenches or gutters about a foot and a half 
afimder, orlefs if the ground be not very rich, and about three 
inches deep, in the which you may fow your Peafe, covering 
them with a rake. I fuppofe a quart of ordinary white Peafe 
may fow about a pole of ground, or if you fow Peafe in fome 
feiall quantity, as in a private Garden, it will be your beft 
and handfomeft way to range a line or two,and with the corner 
of a Howe to make your trayls or gutters abfout filch a dif- 
fiance as aiorefeicfi the reafon of this order is that you may the. 
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