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WINTER PEAS 
AUSTRIAN WINTER Pisum arvensis 
A very widely used and well adapted winter legume soil-improvement crop for 
the cotton soils of Texas and other southern states. Shows a preference for well 
drained fairly fertile loam soils. Produces a rank growth and high tonnage of 
green manure which decays quickly when plowed under. Makes its best growth 
in the cool, moist periods of the fall and spring. Often planted with oats for 
grazing and soil building. 
CANADA FIELD Pisum sativum 
A northern commercial field crop resistant to Fusarium wilt. Suited to mixed 
soils in Texas and the Southwest for fall and early spring planting as a soil 
improvement crop and for green, high protein grazing. In some sections used 
as a home garden variety for table peas. Probably should be used more often 
for soil building as it will grow in the cool dry periods better than most other 
legumes and may be planted with oats. 
‘WINTER (Caley) Lathyrus hirsutus 
A native annual, winter-hardy legume related to the cultivated flowering Sweet 
Pea, recently brought into cultivation as a soil building and green grazing legume 
crop. Well adapted to the bottom lands of east Texas and other southern states, 
interplanted with oats, barley or rye. 

Austrian Winter Pea 
