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Chap. LII. 
Pi/am. Peafe. 
T Here is a very great variety of manured Peafc known to vs, and I think more in 
our Country then in others, whereof fomeprofper better in one ground and 
country, and fome in others : I (hall giue you the defeription of one alone for 
all the reft, and recite vnto you the names of the reft. 
Garden Pcafe are for the moft part the greated and fweeteft kinds, and are fuftained 
with Hakes or bufhes. The Field Pcafe are not lo vfed, but growe without any fuch 
adoe. They fpringvp with long, weake, hollow, and brittle (while they are young 
and greene) whitifli greene ftallces , branched into diners parts , and at cuery ioynt 
where it parteth one broad round leafe compaifmg theftalke about, fo thatitcom- 
methasit were thorough it .‘the leaues are winged, made of diuers fmall leaues ftt to 
a middle ribbe, of a whitifh greene colour, with clafpcrs at the ends of the leaues, 
whereby it taketh hold of whatl ocucr dandeth next vnto it : betweene the leaues and 
theftalkes come forth the flowers, (landing two or three together, euery one by it 
felfeon his owncfeuerall ftalke, which are cither 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,orhers le(Ter,fome thicke and Abort, fome plaine and fmooth’ 
others a little crooked at the ends j wherein all'o arc contained diuers formes of fruit 
or peafe 5 fome being round, others cornered, fome fmall, fome great, fome white, o- 
thers gray, and fome fpotted •. the roote is fmall, and quickly perifheth. 
ThckindesofPeafearethclc: 
Thegray Peafe.' 
The white Hading.' 
The Peafe without skins^ 
The Rounciuall. 
The greene Hading. 
The Sugar Pcafe. 
The fpotted Pcafe. 
TheScottifhor tufted Pcafe, which fome call the Rofe Peafe, is a good 
white Peafe fit to be eaten. 
The early or French Pcafe, which fome call Fulham Peafe, becaufe thofc 
grounds thereabouts doebiing them fooned forward forany quantity , al- 
though fometimes they mifearry by their hade and earlincfle. 
Cicer Priamum. Rams Ciches. 
This is a kinde of Pulfc,fo much vfed in Spaiue,that it is vfually oneof their dain- 
tiedilhes at all their fcads : They areof twoforts, white and red 5 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, almod round, and dented about the edges: 
the flowers arc cither white or purple, according to the colour of the Pcafe which fol- 
low, and are fomewhat round at the head, but cornered and pointed at the end, one or 
two at the mod in a fmall roundifheod. 
The Vfc of Pcafe. 
Peafe of all or the mod of thefeforts, areeithervfed when they are 
greene, and be a difh of meatc for th e table of the rich as well as the poore, 
yet euery one obferuing his time, and the kinde : the faired, fweeted, youn- 
ged, andearlied for the better fort , the later and meaner kindes for the 
meaner, who doe not giue the deered price: Or 
Being dry, they ferue to boyle into a kinde of broth or pottage, wherein 
many doe put Tyme, Mints, Sauory, or fome otherfuch hot herbes, to giue 
is the better rcllifh , and is much vfed in Towne and Countrey in the Lenc 
time, 
