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come in in May and June, and for late crops to
come in in September or beginning of October.
For the main summer crops, the Egg, the Morat-
to, the Prussian Blue, the Rounceval, and Large
Sugar Peas, are the most suitable, and may be
sown freely from the beginning of March to the
end of April, and in smaller crops till the begin¬
ning of June. For late crops, in addition to the
early sorts mentioned, the Dwarf, Dutch Sugar,
Spanish Dwarf, and Leadman’s Dwarf, are very
suitable. Leadman’s Dwarf is a good bearer and
a delicious Pea, but the fruit is long in coming in,
on which account it ought not to be sown later
than the last week in June. If it is sown in
March, April, and May, it will be later than the
Charltons, sown six weeks after. The Charl¬
tons and Hotspurs may be sown for full succes- *
sional crops, from the beginning of May to the
beginning of July, which last sowing will make
returns in the autumn.
In respect to the time of sowing, much that
relates to it has been observed in the estimate of
sorts. It is the practice of many people to try for
an early crop by sowing in warm situations in
October, or November and December, and after
a great deal of trouble and anxiety to protect the
crop from the inclemency of the weather, it more
frequently happens that their trouble, anxiety,
and crop, are all lost together, than otherwise, and
they are no forwarder than those who never sow
till the middle or end of February, and the fruit
of such is seldom a week later than those sown in