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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



" The large Sugar Pease (which many take to be a fair white 



sweet Pease succeeding the Hotspur, but erroneously) is a tender 

 Pease planted in April, and ripe after midsummer : the cods are 

 very crooked and ill-shaped, which, being boiled with unripe 

 Pease in them, are extraordinary sweet. The greatest dis- 

 couragement in raising these is that their sweetness attracts the 

 small birds unto them, to their total destruction, unless care- 

 fully prevented ; which is a sufficient argument of their pre- 

 excellency. 



" The large white and green Rounceval or Hastings are 

 tender, and not to be set till the cold is over, and then not very 

 thick, for they spread much and mount high, and therefore 

 require the aid of tall sticks. Every one knows the worth of 

 them. 



" There is another very large grey but extraordinary sweet 

 Pease that is largely propagated : it is tender but very fruitful, 

 and deserves a large bed in your kitchen garden." 



Gerarde further informs us that " Peas are set and sown in 

 gardens and also in fields in all parts of England. The tufted 

 Peas are in reasonable plenty in West Kent, about Sevenocke. 

 In other places not so common. Wilde Pease do grow in 

 pastures and arable fields in divers places, specially about the 

 fields belonging unto Bishop Hatfield in Hertfordshire." 



Parkinson, in 1629, in his "Paradisus Terrestris," says : — 

 " There is very great variety of Marrowed Pease known to us, 

 and I think more in our country than in others. Garden Pease 

 are for the most part the greatest and sweetest kind, and are 

 sustained with stakes or bushes. 



" The kinds of Pease are these : — 

 The Rounceval. Grey Pease. 



Green Hastings. Peas without skins. 



White Hastings. Scottish or Tufted, which some 



Sugar. call the Rose Pease, is a good 



Spotted. White Pease fit to be eaten. 



" Early or French Pease, which some call the Fulham Pease 

 because the ground thereat doe bring them soonest forward for 

 any quantity, although sometimes they miscarry by their haste 

 and earliness." 



I think that the so-called French Peas would be nothing but 



