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 
(Facsimilefrom 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 : 
