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they came so far and cost so dear. It would therefore appear 
that some different and probably superior varieties were obtained 
from Holland than the Bounceval Pease mentioned by Tusser. 
Gerarde, in his “ Herbal,” 1597, says thus:—“There be divers 
sorts of Peason differing very notably in many respects. Some 
are of the garden and some of field, and yet both counted 
tame. Some with tough skins or membranes on the cods, and 
others have none at all, whose cods are to be eaten with the 
Peason when they are young, as those of Kidney Beans ; others 
carry their fruit on the top of the branches, and they are esteemed 
and taken for Scottish Peason, which is not very common.” I 
have had photographs taken of two of the Peas that are illustrated in 
Gerarde’s “ Herbal,” where the following sorts are enumerated :— 
(1) Pisum majus (Bounceval Pease). (Fig. 58.) 
(2) Pisum minus (Garden & Field Pease). 
(3) Pisum umbellatum (Tufted or Scottish Pease). 
(4) Pisum excorticatum (without skins in the cods). (Fig. 59.) 
This last is doubtless the remote ancestor of the ‘ Sans 
parchemin ’ Peas, which are so highly esteemed on the Con¬ 
tinent, but which are little grown now in England. 
In the “Art of Gardening,” published in 1688, we are in¬ 
formed : “ Pease are of divers kinds, and some of them the 
sweetest and most pleasant of all Pulses; the meaner sort of 
them have been long acquainted with our English air and soil; 
but the sweet and delicate sorts of them have been introduced 
into our gardens only in this latter age. 
“ There are divers sorts of Pease now propagated in England, 
as three several sorts of Hotspurs, the Long, the Short, and Barns’ 
Hotspur, the Sandwich, five sorts of Bounceval, the Grey, White, 
Blue, Green, and Maple Bounceval. Three sorts of Sugar Pease, 
the large White, small White, and Grey Sugar Pease. The Egg 
Pease, Wing Pease, and Sickle Pease ; whereof the Hotspur are 
the most early, pleasant, and profitable of all others. The Sugar 
Pease with crooked cods, the sweetest of all. The large white 
and green Bouncival, and the great Egg Pease we shall more 
particularly advise to be propagated in our gardens. 
“ The Hotspurs are the speediest of growth of any : that being 
sown about the middle of May will in six weeks’ time return 
ripe again into your hands, no Vegetable besides being so quick 
