136 October 1748. 



who had lived in this kind of houfes complained 

 of thefe inconveniences. 



O<5?. gth. PEASE are not much cultivated in 

 Penfylvania at prefent, though formerly, accord- 

 ing to the accounts of fome old Swedes, every far- 

 mer had a little field with peafe. In New Jer- 

 cy y and the fouthern parts of New Tork, peafe are 

 likewife not fo much cultivated as they ufed to 

 be, But in the northern parts of New Tork, 

 or about Albany, and in all the parts of Canada, 

 which are inhabited by the French, the people 

 fow great quantities, and have a plentiful crop. 

 In the former colonies, a little defpicable infedt 

 has obliged the people to give up fo uleful a part 

 of agriculture. This little infeft was formerly 

 little known, but a few years ago it multiplied 

 exceffiveiy. It couples in fummer, about the 

 time when the peafe are in bloflbm, and then de- 

 pofits an egg into almoft every one of the little 

 peafe. When the peafe are ripe, their outward 

 appearance does not difcover the worm, which, 

 however, is found within, when it is cut. This 

 worm lies in the pea, if it is not ftirred, during all 

 the winter, and part of the Ipring, and in that fpace 

 of tirneconfumes the greateft part of the infide of 

 the pea: In fjpring, therefore, little more than the 

 mere thin outward fkin is left. This worm, at 

 laft, changes into an in-fedt, of the coleoptera 

 clafs, and in that ftate creeps through a hole of 

 its own making in the hulk, and flies off, in order 

 to look for new fields of peafe, in which it may 

 couple with its cogeneric infedts, and provide 

 food fufiicient for its pofterity. 



THIS noxious infed: has fpread from Penjyl-* 



r oania 



