d f f N:A.-TU.RAXi
wholfem.p Pairiiam>? fays he, qtroque reliquis? prasnpitqdecoclnm
hordfei coeleftis, .vulgo' IIjmmelbyg-grato tarn fapore quam ief-
fe6Hi.ie .comEniendans. i;A r n . Bernfen, in. hjs bjook-.ahovfi-quoted,
Page *94' on.the. EqiitFmlkefs/pf;Denmark^Bnd-Nor^ay,r ;pretettds that fomi-:
.Wonderfti •tfefesbiittl^t.;.ye^y:tjie}?<N0rv%/twl^adegdnefaWs^iiitij;soats^;
whilft othefsr imaging:: that . good oat§, i .especially imHedemark,
improve into barley. But* -withoutifurthfr proof,.fuch .anomalous
r&etamorphofes appear to me fcarce? Credible^, and.my Opinion:
is,.;fthat whati jfirflr. gave arjfe itdMhis anbtipni/^as an:dd^^htai;
andiunobferved: mixture of. a little barley with oats, ' or ofoats
with- .barley, .which' in foinesyeara, happehed. to thrive, hetter. that!,
the intended grain,, and this ,;unexjddted insheafe was tniftaken.
for a txanfinutation.,'
S E C T. VI.
Oats. ; Oats, are the grainrof »the mqft general, pfe in Norway* both
for the peafant’s bread,; which is madje.pfit, and in; f@n^fplaces-
for a kind of malt. Iris, alfe much larger, wjnter, and mellower*
than in other c o u n tr y and thrives in,thqfq knds,, where, by:rea;~{
fpn ,of moifture or poverty, mo other :gjain;\yill; anfyer.. -; T]iat-oats:
are no lefs tiutritivq; than rye, naay-be:jiidgpd;.npt only fr6m .|he;
horfes, but the lingular ftrength and;, vigour of the Norway peanuts;
But amidft the great benefits derived to our peafantsfrotfi
good oats, in. fome places, efpecially in PRyefylke, -they complain
loudly of a kind of wild or fpurious oats, .whfeh’-the French call
folio avoine. Where once this takes, root, it*is. extremely:diffie.ult
to be extirpated, overrunning large trads. g£ land,jj^pflxqyjrig the
good grain, and proving as mifehievous, as thofe complained of
in Virgil,
Infelix lolium, et fteriles dominantur avense.1
*' This however! efpoufed by Mr. Frederic Hoffman in' thefe words.' «WJ10 has
ever perfpicuoufly-deinonftrated, bywhatmeans'fome planticomefto' W transformed
mto other lands, .foJvinftarice, wheat into tares,-.good,oats irito' wild, a nutmeg in
Europe, into a walnut, &c.” See his Rational Phyfical Tiieolog, Sgft, xxyii p q6
Whilft I'am writing this, a worthy friend of rnirie raffures me^ that to fatisfy himfelf
in this, doub,t, he lowed a, can of .the fineft barley, without a firigle grain of oats
among its yet, at ;the harveft, of two cans of barley, one and a half proved oats
bo I leave the matter without £urther;.difcui3Ion. Si® ‘
I S E C T .
N A T U R A L H I S T O R Y of N O R W A Y .
S El C T. VII.
White, gsey, and green peak are fowqd, tho’ not to. any greatPea'-
quantity, both in Suden and Nordenfield, .the fdil being taomy.j
hut the beft are produced in the difirid of Sognefiord in this dio-
eefe, where they were introduced by a clergyman, about the mid-
dle of the lafii century; and his. experiment -having recommended
itfelf tn imitation, I fhall here infert a fhort account ofife Mr.
Jacob Kirfebom, minifter of Sognedalt*, reading in, Sam. Paul’s
Flora Danica, of an American finall pea, undef the nadf&of Pifum
de gratia, one dF-which being ftsjjj in M. Klingenbefg’-s garden,
neaf Hamburg, had yielded 324, refojved fo fepd for fpn^e, ^nd
on trial found tfie fertility of his Nofway-garden fetfeperipr to
that near Hamburggli yielded him p i9 peas foi*“one f . Since
which the peaf of t|iq£e jparts have, been veij inuch in vpgup
here.
Vetches, of which fuch quantities are Fow.n in Denmarkvas pro- vetch**,
^vender for horfes, Mr. Jonas Ramus class'*amhngv the. Vegetables
of Norway; whence I ceificliide that pmuft'he Far up me
country where they grow, havipg, |o,^ie beft of my remembrance,
never Jeen- any in thefe parts. In Valders thpy are laid to grow
l|>ehtanedufly, a®d few themfekes, vbut in no peat plenty*
c T. vm,
Wheat, and Buckwheat aHh grow here, bftt n§t 'ift many wheat,
places, thoV it is not improbable, that npffn trialj ttelSNSyth g£
it might be eonfeferably inereafed. Mr. Hans Caflen A mhj^ mj-
nifter of Leyerdal, in this diocefe, being a native qf Lqlljffife •
* There is likewife a parifti in .the diocefe Ch'tifBanfand; name
of Sognedal, and wbieh I am apt to think was M.: EidMfetifaj’h ■
feqqeritly wher? fe bropght p.^ in vpglje, as.-i'dWnpt mppt ^ith' his aame
among the clergy of this dipcele. T
4 Pifum fninus, quod de gratia rosant, gg . ■:
tuphim ferr? fjm? eft. ifaeftatuE.f e « 5giag«^ f f lM ; .& |^ Fr _
experientiae, Claffm Quadnpartit Botan lnw^^o*obfti# 'KSfUSiKergiiprope
Hambuf^tHj' fifficreviftie piftilQ hQP d f gmtja (rece^tprijm t«p vigentij mjtermCL
tWn-<%Ble» qiup.exemplQ'iiwjtatus Do®i. jacobus 4oach*Fuftborn,'' paftm^u^Bog-
nedat N^fVegi^ ex Hbllaiidj» ifta pifa fibi k^sfi curadil'lsiepit in >
fingulg p[fq terrse ihidSJP com^il§>, pifa, quema^rppc^ufn, ^ yeneraqdupi *ffa!a>n -
pareptem feripfit, d.^Jqnii x^pT ciyn D; Joach.' Pau|li‘ p^at^-
ejue axf(^n)en4» WhMrta» Ipdos Dankos Navi pedtufus^tDVe
Nory. ve'ntd contrario fubflfteret. Thom. B.artHoi. AtSa' Med. et Philof. Hafn.
vol.-.I.’ '
P ar t I. F f which