EVERLASTING-PEA. lOS 



thereby called Betsome, and in divers other 

 places." Mr. Ray observed it about the middle 

 of the last century in the Cambridgeshire woods ; 

 and Martyn tells us that it has also been found 

 at Rocks, near Red Neese, by Whitehaven, Se- 

 vern Stoke Copse, Worcestershire, (§'c. It is 

 also found in various parts of the South of 

 France, 



This plant is too large and rambling for the 

 flovi^er border, but it forms a splendid ornament 

 in the shrubbery or wilderness walks, where, by 

 covering the bare trunks of trees with its clusters 

 of rose-coloured flowers, it adds greatly to the 

 cheerfulness of these scenes from the middle of 

 June to the end of July. Where walls or other 

 fences are covered with ivy, this pea mixes with its 

 gloomy leaves v/ith a happy effect. We are not 

 aware whether it has ever been cultivated by the 

 agriculturist, but as it is perennial, and yields 

 a great quantity of green fodder, the experiment 

 may be worthy the trial. We will venture to 

 promise that the seeds will be acceptable to the 

 farmer's pigeons and the landlord's game, whilst 

 its flowers will materially assist to fill the comb 

 of the cottager's hives, even if it be no farther 

 cultivated than for decorating the common hedge- 

 rows, where its bunches of papilionaceous flowers 

 could not fail to delight the passenger by their 



