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wz. the faba hortenjts alba ^ nibray 

 Gerard J p. 1029. TarkinfoUy /. 521. 

 with fome other kinds, which will be 

 mentiond in their proper places. The 

 jphafeolus of divers kinds, viz. the whitC;, 

 red, black, and party-colour'd kidney- 

 beans 5 but the moft numerous of all 

 the legumes, is the piftm, or garden 

 peafe, fo call'd, as Mr. Ray fets down, 

 from * 7ifa, an ifland or country fituate 

 between OJfa and Olympus ^ where they 

 grew in great abundance 5 all which dif- 

 fer from one another either in the fize, 

 fhape, growth, or colour of their haulm, 

 cods, ^c. or in their earlinefs or late- 

 nefs of ripening. 



All thefe legumes (except the phafeo- Sr^o?! of 

 /us) are good ruftical hardy plants, ^LadM^^^^s- 

 may be fown in the open ground, with- 

 out needing any other culture than be- 

 ing howed, weeded, and earth'd, whilft 

 they are young, and before they begin 

 to burnifh and cod. 



To the general culture of peafe, beans, 0/ the 

 &c, may be added alfo that of the foil/'^^^' 

 fituation and afpcd, which tho' they of- 



* Pifmn a Pifa qu?5 inter OlTam & Olympum copiofilii- 

 me nafcicur. Raii Hi/}. Flavt. lib, i 8- r.-//. z, p. S90. 



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