128 New. Principles of Gardening. 
SECT. XIX. 
Of Peafe. 
1. Their Names. 
HERE being divers Kinds of Peafe, are therefore called 
by many, Names, and are diftinguifhed by their {everal 
Degrees of Magnitude, as well as by the Perfons or Places by 
whom they were firft cultivated. 
The great Peafe are called by Theophraffus and other old 
Writers, in Greek. zicov, in Latin Pifum Romanum, or Pi- 
Sum majus, in French des Pots, in Low Dutch, Koom[cheerwiten, 
and in Englifh Roman Peafe, or Peafe of the Garden: We 
have many other, Sorts much fmaller, that are cultivated in the 
Gardens alfo, which the Ancients call’d Ps/ium minus, and in 
Englifh little Peafe, or the common Peafe. 
But fince that Peafe were firft cultivated in Gardens they 
have been greatly improved, and now confift of a great many 
new Kinds, which our ancient Herbarz/is and Gardiners never 
knew, or heard of. 
. The feveral Sorts of Peafe now cultivated in Gardens are as 
follow. 
Firft, of {mall Peafe, viz. fuch as the Ancients called Pfam 
MINUS, ViZ. 
The feveral Sorts of Hot/purs, of which thofe are the beft that 
were firft raifed and improved by Mr. Cox, lateof Kew Green 
near Richmond in Surrey, Nurfery Man, deceafed: And another 
Kind, called and known by the name of Maffer’s Hots, firtt 
raifed.and improved by an ingenious Gardiner and Nurfery Man 
of that Name, now living at Strand in the Green, near old Brent- 
ford in Middlefex. The other Sorts of fhort and long Hot{pur 
Peafe, are the Reading Peafe, Rofe Peafe, and Dwarf Peate. 
Secondly, of large Peafe, fuch as the Ancients called P- 
[um majus, viz. 
es ; 4 (1.) The 
