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pease do growe in pastures and earable fields 

 in diuers places, especially about the fields 

 belonging vnto Bishops Hatfielde in Hart- 

 fordshire." He adds, " there be diuers sorts 

 of peason, differing very notably in many re- 

 spects, some of the garden, and others of the 

 fielde, and yet both counted tame, some 

 with tough skins or membrances in the cods, 

 and others haue none at all, whose cods are 

 to be eaten with the peas when they be yoong, 

 as those of the yoong kidney beane ; others 

 carying their fruit in the tops of the branches 

 are esteemed and taken for Scottish peason, 

 which is not very common." At that time 

 (1-597) he describes the rownciuall, the 

 garden and field peas, the tufted or Scottish, 

 the peas without skin in the pods, the wild 

 pea, and the everlasting pea. 



The garden peas have been greatly im- 

 proved in this country, by what is called 

 rouging; which is done by looking carefully 

 over such as are designed for seed at the 

 time when they begin to flower, and drawing 

 out all bad plants, to prevent their farina 

 from impregnating with the good ; to effect 

 which this is always done before the flowers 

 open. By thus diligently drawing out the 

 bad, and reserving those which come earliest 



