522 The Kitchen Garden. 



CHAP. LI I. 

 Pifum. Peafe. 



THere is a very great variety of manured Peafe known to vs, and I think more in 

 our Country then in others, whereof fome profper better in one ground and 

 country, and fome in others : I fhall giue you the defcription of one alone for 

 all the reft, and recite vnto you the names of the reft. 



Garden Peafe are for the moft part the greateft and fweeteft kinds, and are fuftained 

 with ftakes or bufhes. The Field Peafe are not fo vfed, but growe without any fuch 

 adoe. They fpring vp with long, weake, hollow, and brittle (while they are young 

 and greene) whitifh greene ftalkes, branched into diuers parts, and at euery ioynt 

 where it parteth one broad round leafe compaffing the ftalke about, fo that it com- 

 meth as it were thorough it : the leaues are winged, made of diuers fmall leaues fet to 

 a middle ribbe, of a whitifh greene colour, with clafpers at the ends of the leaues, 

 whereby it taketh hold of whatfoeuer ftandeth next vnto it : betweene the leaues and 

 the ftalkes come forth the flowers, {landing two or three together, euery one by it 

 felfe on his owne feuerall ftalke, which are either wholly white, or purple, or mixed 

 white and purple, or purple and blew : the fruit are long, and fomewhat round cods, 

 whereof fome are greater, others lefler, fome thicke and fhort, fome plaine and fmooth, 

 others a little crooked at the ends ; wherein alfo are contained diuers formes of fruit 

 or peafe ; fome being round, others cornered, fome fmall, fome great, fome white, o- 

 thers gray, and fome fpotted : the roote is fmall, and quickly perifheth. 



The kindes of Peafe are thefe : 



The Rounciuall. 

 The greene Hafting. 

 The Sugar Peafe. 



The gray Peafe. 

 The white Hafting. 

 The Peafe without skins. 



The fpotted Peafe. 



The Scottifh or tufted Peafe, which fome call the Rofe Peafe, is a good 

 white Peafe fit to be eaten. 



The early or French Peafe, which fome call Fulham Peafe, becaufe thofe 

 grounds thereabouts doe bring them fooneft forward for any quantity, al- 

 though fometimes they mifcarry by their hafte and earlineffe. 



Cicer Arietinum. Rams Ciches. 



This is a kinde of Pulfe, fo much vfed in Spaine, that it is vfually one of their dain- 

 tie dimes at all their feafts : They are of two forts, white and red ; the white is onely 

 vfed for meate, the other for medicine. It beareth many vpright branches with win- 

 ged leaues, many fet together, being fmall, almoft round, and dented about the edges : 

 the flowers are either white or purple, according to the colour of the Peafe which fol- 

 low, and are fomewhat round at the head, but cornered and pointed at the end, one or 

 two at the moft in a fmall roundifh cod. 



The Vfe of Peafe. 



Peafe of all or the moft of thefe forts, are either vfed when they are 

 greene, and be a difh of meate for the table of the rich as well as the poore, 

 yet euery one obferuing his time, and the kinde : the faireft, fweeteft, youn- 

 geft, and earlieft for the better fort, the later and meaner kindes for the 

 meaner, who doe not giue the deereft price : Or 



Being dry, they (erue to boyle into a kinde of broth or pottage, wherein 

 many doe put Tyme, Mints, Sauory, or fome other fuch hot herbes, to giue 

 it the better rellifh, and is much vfed in Towne and Countrey in the Lent 



time, 



