NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 107 



SECT. VII. 



White, grey, and green peas are Cowed, trio' not to any great Pcay - 

 quantity, both in Suden and Nordenneld, the foil being loomy; 

 but the beft are produced in the diftricl: of Sognefiord in this dio- 

 cefe, where they were introduced by a clergyman, about the mid- 

 dle of the laft century ; and his experiment having recommended 

 itfelf to imitation, I mail here infert a fhort account of it. Mr. 

 Jacob Kirfebom, minifter of Sognedal *, reading in Sim. Paul's 

 Flora Danica, of an American fmall pea, under the name of Pifum 

 de gratia, one of which being fet in M. Klingenberg's garden, 

 near Hamburg, had yielded 324, refolved to fend for fome, and 

 on trial found the fertility of his Norway-garden far fuperior to 

 that near Hamburg; it yielded him 610 peas for one f. Since 

 which time the peas of thofe parts have been very much in vogue 

 here. 



Vetches, of which fuch quantities are fown in Denmark, as pro- Vetches; 

 vender for horfes, Mr. Jonas Ramus claffes among the vege- 

 tables of Norway ; whence I conclude that it muft be far up the 

 country where they grow, having, to the beft of my remembrance, 

 never feen any in thefe parts. In Valders they are faid to grow 

 fpontaneoufly, and fow themfelves, but in no great plenty, 



S EC T. VIII. 



Wheat, and Buckwheat alfo grow here, but not in many wheat, 

 places, tho', it is not improbable, that upon trial, the growth of 

 it might be confiderably increafed. Mr. Hans Caften Atche, mi- 

 nifter of Leyerdal, in this diocefe, being a native of Lolland, 



* There is likewife a parilh in the diocefe of Chriftianfand, which bears the name 

 of Sognedal, and which I am apt to think was M. Kirfebom's refidence, and con- 

 fequently where he firft brought peas in vogue, as I do not meet with his name 

 among the clergy of this diocefel 



f Pifum minus, quod de gratia rocant, ex America ad Europseos tranflatum cen- 

 tuplum fru&um ferre fama eft. Atteftatur D. Simon Paulli, vir magna? fama: et 

 experiential, ClafT.ni. Quadripartit Botan. in viridario nobiliff. Klingenbergii prope 

 'Hamburgum, fuccreviffe pifum hoc de gratia trecentorum et vigenti quatuor pifo- 

 rum fertile. Quo exemplo invitatus Dom. Jacobus Joach. Kirfebom, paftor in Sog- 

 nedal Norvegia?, ex Hollandia ifta pifa fibi afferri curans, recepit in Norvegia ex 

 fincrulo pifo terras ibidem commiffo, 610 pifa, quemadmodum ad venerandum fuum 

 parcntem fcripfit, d. 2junii 1672, cum D. Joach. Paulli laudabili propofito patrije- 

 que inferviendi voluntate Indos Danicos Orient. Navi petiturus prope Hitteroe- 

 ^orv. vento contrario fubfifteret. Thorn. Barthol. A6ta Med. et Philof. Hafn. 

 vol. I. p- 66. 



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