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Years in the fame Place, Co there 

 can be no doubt of their being fe- 

 minal Variations, which are not 

 worth enumerating in this Place. 



The EngliJJj Sea Pea, is found 

 wild upon the Shore in Sujfex, and 

 fcveral other Counties in England; 

 this was firft taken Notice of in 

 the Year ifj'f, between Oxford 

 and AlSorough, where it grew up- 

 on the Heath, where nothing, no 

 not Grafs, was ever feen to grow, 

 and the poor People being in Di- 

 -ftrefs, by Reafon of the Dearth of 

 that Year, gathered large Quanti- 

 ties of thefe Peas, and fo prelerved 

 themfelvcs and Families: This is 

 mentioned by Siovp in his Chronicle^ 

 and Cambden in his Britannia. But 

 they were both miftaken, in imagi- 

 ning that they were Peas caft on 

 Shoar by a Shipwreck, feeing they 

 grow in divers other Parts of Eng- 

 land, and are undoubtedly a diffe- 

 rent Species from the common 

 Pea. 



The Sixteenth Sort is greatly cul- 

 tivated in the Fields in D^rfetjlnre, 

 where they are known by the 

 Name of Pig Peas, the Inhabitants 

 making great Ufe of them to feed 

 their Hogs. Thefe are alio often 

 brought up to Lomlon and fold for 

 the fame Parpofe. 



I fhall now proceed to fet down 

 the Method of cultivating the fevc- 

 ral Sorts of Garden Peas^ fo as to 

 continue them throughout the Sca- 

 fon. 



It is a common Pra^ice with 

 the Gardeners near London, to raile 

 Peas upon Hot-beds, to have thern 

 very early in the Spring, in order 

 to which, they low their Peas up- 

 on warm Borders under Walls or 

 Hedges, about the Middle of Oclo- 

 her ; and when the Plants come up, 

 they draw the Earth up gently to 

 their Stems with a Hoe, the better 



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ro protcd them from Froli,- in 

 thefe Places they let them remain 

 until the latter End of fantmry, or 

 the Beginning of lebruary, obfer- 

 ving to earth them up from time 

 to time as the Plants advance in 

 Height (for the Reafons before laid 

 down) as alfo to cover them in ve- 

 ry hard Froft with Peas-haulm, 

 Straw, or feme other light Cover- 

 ing, to preferve them from being 

 deftroy'd, then at the Time bcfore- 

 mention'd, they make a Hot-bed 

 (in proportion to the Quantity of 

 Peas intended) which muft be well 

 work'd in laying the Dung, that 

 the Heat may not be too great: 

 The Dung fhould be laid about two 

 Feet thick or fomewhat more, ac- 

 cording as the Beds are made earli- 

 er or later in the Seafon j when the 

 Dung is equally levelled, then the 

 Earth (which Ihould be light and 

 frefli, but not over rich) muft be 

 laid on about Six Inches 'hick, lay- 

 ing it equally all over the Bed : 

 This being done, the Frames (which 

 Ihould be two Feet deep on the 

 Back-fide, and about fourteen In- 

 ches in Front) muft be put on, and 

 covcr'd with Giaffes, after which 

 it fhou'.d remain three or four 

 Days, to let the Steam of the Bed 

 pafs off, before you put the Plants 

 therein ; obferving every Day to 

 raifc the Glailes eicher with Bricks 

 or Stones, to give Vent for the ri- 

 fmg Steam to pafs off; then when 

 you find the Bed of a fine mode- 

 rate Temperature for Heat, yoii 

 Diould with a Trowel, or fome o- 

 ther Inftrument, take up the Plants 

 as carefully as pofflble, to preferve 

 a little Earth to their Roots, and 

 plant them into the Hot-bed in 

 Rows, about a Foot afunder, and 

 the Plants fliould be fet about an 

 Inch and Half, or two Inches di- 

 flance from each other in the Rowsj 



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