These beautiful butterflies, Mr. Moore tells us, are called, in the Chinese language, Flying leaves. 
“ Some of them” continues he, “have such shining colours, and are so variegated, that they may be called 
Flying flowers; and indeed they are always produced in the finest flower-gardens.” 
“ Here are sweet peas on tip-toe for a flight, 
"With wings of gentle flush, o’er delicate white, 
And taper fingers catching at all things, 
To bind them all about with tiny rings.” 
Keat. 
In his Calendar of Nature, Mr. Hunt speaks of sweet peas, as looking like butterflies turned to flowers. 
In short, it seems scarcely possible not to feel this. They seem only to linger to sip their own honey. 
Arboretum Botanicum. 
Pisum Sativum, petioles terete, bearing three pairs of ovate, entire, glaucous leaflets, with undulated 
margins, usually opposite and mucronulate ; stipulas ovate, somewhat cordate, crenated at the base ; pedun- 
cles two or many flowered ; legumes rather fleshy. Natives of the south of Europe, and now cultivated in 
fields and gardens, throughout the world. Flowers white or red. 
The pea has been cultivated in this country from time immemorial. It was not, however, very common 
in Elizabeth’s time, when as Fuller informs us, peas were brought from Holland, and were “ fit dainties for 
ladies, they came so far, and cost so dear.” The use of the pea in cookery is familiar to every one. In one 
variety, called the sugar pea, the inner tough film of the pods is wanting, and such pods when young are 
frequently boiled with the seeds or peas within them, and eaten in the manner of kidney-beans. This 
variety is comparatively new, having been introduced about the middle of the seventeenth century. 
Estimate of sorts. The varieties, besides differing in the colour of the blossoms, height of stalks, and 
mode of growth, are found to have some material differences in hardiness to stand the winter, time of coming 
in, and flavour of the seeds. The Charltons are not only very early, but great bearers, and excellent peas for 
the table, and are therefore, equally well fitted for the early crop, and forward succession crops, and inferior 
to few even for the main summer crops. 
The frame pea may, indeed, be raised without the assistance of heat for a forward crop, and if a genuine 
sort will fruit a few days sooner than the Charltons, but it grows low and bears scantily. The Hotspur is 
hardy and prolific, and makes returns nearly as quick as the Charlton, and about a fortnight before the 
marrow-fat . Bishop’s dwarf-pea is an early kind and a great bearer. The sorts already specified, therefore, 
embrace the best for sowings made from the end of October till the middle of January, and for late crops 
raised between the middle of June and the beginning of August. The fine flavour of the marrow-fat is well 
known. A few dwarf marrowfats may be sown in December and January, as mild weather may occur ; 
but the time for sowing full crops of the larger kinds of peas is from the beginning of February till the end 
of April. The egg, the maratto, the prussian-blue, and the rouncivals, the large-sugar, and the crown, are 
all very fine eating peas in a young growth, and like the marrow-fat may be sown freely according to the 
demand, from the third week in February to the close of April, and in smaller crops, until the middle of 
June. For late crops, in addition to the early sorts already mentioned, the dwarf sugar, headman’s dwarf. 
Bishop’s dwarf, are small delicious peas, great bearers, and in high request at genteel tables, but as the fruit 
of Leadman’s as well as Bishop’s dwarf is long of coming in, it is not advisable to sow it after the third week 
in June ; rather sow it in March, April, and May, and then it will be later than the Charltons raised five 
weeks afterwards. The Charltons and Hotspurs may be sown in May, for late full crops, in June for a 
smaller supply, and in July along with the frame for the last returns. 
Soil and situation. The soil should be moderately rich, and deeper and stronger for the lofty growers. 
Peas are not assisted, but hurt by unreduced dung, recently turned in. A fresh sandy loam or road stuff ; 
and a little decomposed vegetable matter, is the best manure. The soil for early crops should be very dry, 
and rendered so where the ground is moist, by mixing sand with the earth of the drills. For early crops, 
put in from October till the end of January, let the situation be sheltered and the aspect sunny. Before 
the end of December, every one or two rows should stand close under a south or south eastern fence. In 
