GARDEN PEAS. 



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quite half a dish, was paid for late Peas on October 28 of that 

 year. 



I will endeavour to give you some idea of the sorts of Peas 

 that were cultivated in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth 



Fig. 58. — Old World Peas. Kounceval Pease : Pisum majus. 

 (Facsimile from Gerarde's "Herbal," 1597.) 



centuries, so far as I have been able to get information. Fuller, 

 writing in the reign of Elizabeth, says that it was customary to 

 obtain the best varieties from Holland as fit dainties for ladies : 



