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I heir culture has however fallen rather into disrepute in allwell managed districts, being found both unprofitable and in-jurious to the ground, in consequence of the quantity of an-nual and perennial weeds, which grow among the crop whencultivated according to the broadcast system. Even whensown in drills, as the plants fall over very early, the necessaryhoeing can seldom be properly executed. Sown along withdrilled beans, as already mentioned, peas are often cultivatedto great advantage. On such soils as are not of sufficientdepth for beans, and where from other circumstances thecultivation of peas, is advisable, a mixture of peas with a small-er proportion of beans, will prove advantageous, as the beanswill serve as props to sustain the peas from falling down, inwhich way the sun and air has much more influence. In thecase of a sufficient mixture of beans, which may be from athird to two-tliirds of the seed, the preparation, cultivation,and other steps belonging to this crop, are precisely similarto those already detailed in the preceding section.
§ ‘2. Kinds .—There are two varieties of the gray or fieldpea cultivated in Scotland , which are usually distinguishedlike oats, by the names of hot-seed and cold-seed. The hot-seedy bastings, or early pea, admits of being sown at any timetill the first week of May. The cold-seed, on the contrary, isa late ripener, an«J requires to be sown in February or March,to give a fair chance of ripening and harvesting in due time.The hot-seed pea, of which an approved sub-variety, called theMagbiehill pea, from the place of its original growth, is consi-derably speckled, seldom exceeds three or four feet in the lengthof its haum, and when it comes away kindly in a favourableseason, generally produces a satisfactory crop of grain ; but,as its haum is short, and consequently of small bulk on theground, its produce of fodder is proportionally scanty. Thecold-seed pea is larger in the grain, and of a more uniformunspotted colour, often growing to six feet long in the haunt,and sometimes even to ten or twelve feet. It is thereforo