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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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he directionof fine pod production, and so long as thesepods hive been well filled, with not large,but good, soft, succulent Peas, and abun-dantly set on tho plants, there has been greatgain. Of that there can bo no doubt whatever.Last summer some twenty-five varietios ofdwarf or modium height Peas were grown inSurrey, in both light and porous soil, and instiff loam. In one case the plants were staked,iu the other subjected to ordinary field treatment.All were wrinLled Peas with one exception :Princess Royal, once a favourite, second earlymirrow, grown iu this case with Prince ofWales, and one or two other old sorts, to testtho morits of the newer ones. In both casesthe seed was sown thinly, much more thinly thanis the rule in gardons, though not in fields; andone good result was that iu spite of the pro-longed hoat and drought, all did well, andgave capital crops. It is sut prising how Peasthinly sown, especially the robust marrows, wi 1 Januart 30, 1897.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 77
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78 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (January 30, 1897. make side-shoots, and more than compensatefor thinness of plants. The laid Peas in thestiff loam, judged by ripe seed production, gaverather the best results; but on the light dry soilthe results were more than satisfactory, andnone that is classed as first early was sown—but all were of mid-season, and late croppingvarieties, the object being to manifest to the sur-rounding allotment-holders the value of newvarieties such as grown, over those in commonuse, or which run unduly tall. Of these latterthe failures to secure crops during the pastsummer were many ; indeed, they would succeedonly where there were great depth of soil andample manure, and abundant waterings werefurnished up till at least the month of August.Selections were made of the leading varieties offour prominent seedsmen, and in the result ineach case certain selected ones were specially thebest, though all were relatively very good. Thebest two varieties under 24 inches

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