The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . good weather at Framfield, and itis possible to open the ventilators of the 370 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [June 13, 1903. house, admitting fresh air, at a time whenLondon may be submerged in fog. has grown Peas in the manner de-scribed for five or six years, sometimes usingone variety, sometimes another, and withsimilar average results. Dwarf Peas havebeen grown as well as tall ones, but all aretall this year. An exception to the generalcrop of Early Giant is one row of the newPea Edwin Becket
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . good weather at Framfield, and itis possible to open the ventilators of the 370 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [June 13, 1903. house, admitting fresh air, at a time whenLondon may be submerged in fog. has grown Peas in the manner de-scribed for five or six years, sometimes usingone variety, sometimes another, and withsimilar average results. Dwarf Peas havebeen grown as well as tall ones, but all aretall this year. An exception to the generalcrop of Early Giant is one row of the newPea Edwin Beckett. Perhaps it would bepracticable to grow crops of Spinach or Early Crop of Sweet only does Mr. Davis cultivate earlycrops of culinary Peas, but he has suppliedthe market since May 20 with a goodquantity of excellent Sweet Pea flowers, inthe best colours he can get. The house con-taining these is £00 feet long, and about20 feet wide. There are three rows of Peasrunning from end to end of the photograph at fig. 144, p. 871, takenfor us on May 29, will show how well the. Fig. 143.—culinaby peas in me. daviss nursery in may. (see p. 363.) Lettuces between the rows of Peas in thehouse, just as is done outside. In someseasons Mr. Davis has had three successivecrops in the house in a year—Peas, Tomatos,and Chrysanthemums; but there is someoverlapping in that case, and this yearthe Chrysanthemums will follow the of the Chrysanthemums will beplanted-out, and even some of the exhi-bition sorts in pots, as Madame Carnot andits varieties, will be brought indoors asearly as August, that the wood may becomethoroughly ripened. plants were growing and blooming. Therewould have been a more abundant displayof flowers if the packers had not removedon the preceding day all that were thenready. In this case the seeds were sown inpots, and the plants were transferred fromthe pots to the ground at the end of themonth of March. For market purposes,Mr. Davis cultivate
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