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ART. VII. 
On the Culture of pea 
Tn a. Letter to the Secreragy. 
~ [By Joun Hakvey Prerce, efq.) 
‘DEAR, SIR,» - New-Park, June 20, 1797. 
NE of the fubje&s which appears to me to 
merit:fome:confideration, is, the cultivation 
of furze, as awinter food for horfes. Having re« 
marked a hardy little horfe, which I occafionally 
rode, bite off the green tops of furze in preference, 
I thought, to dry meat, (hay) it occurred that fuch 
was certainly wholfome, and, perhaps, might have 
qualities fuperior. to what its‘rough appearance in- 
dicated. +: was the more pleafed with the idea, 
from recoilecting the attempts of Mr. WuycHERLY 
being fo far fuccefsful'as to introduce (through Mr. 
Roque’s means) the ufe of burnet. I turned the 
matter over.in my mind, but was at a lofs how to 
proceed; when foon after, in a collection of mifcel- 
laneous papers, publifhed by R. Maxwe ut, efq; of 
Edinburgh, meeting with the paflages tranfcribed 
and annexed, I was fully convinced, that it might 
not only be ufed as a wholefome, but very nourifhing 
food; and although, perhaps, not quite fo good, in 
many refpects, as fome roots and_ plants: generally 
known, yet from the cheapnefs, might oftener come 
within 
