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Show The Kitchen Garden. The Kitchin: Garden, r FPSBSLR RSET ESS S E ae Cuar. LID Pifers. Peafe, "To is avery gteat variety oFmanured Peafeknown to vs, and think morein our Countrythen in others ; whereof fome profperbetter in one groundand country, and fomein othets : I fhall give you the defcription of one alone for allthe reft, and recite vnto you the namesof the reft. Garden Peafe are for the moft patt thegreaceft and {weeteft kinds, and are {uftained with ftakes or bufhes. The Field Peafe arenot.fo vied, but growe without any fuch adoe. They {pring vp with long, weake , hollow,andbrittle (whilethey are young and greene) whitifh greene ftalkes, branched into diwers parts, and at cuery ioynt whereit parteth one broad round leafe compaffing the ftalke about, fo tharitcommethas it were thoroughit : the leaues are winged, made of diuers {mall leaues fet to amiddleribbe, of a whitifh' greene. colour, ‘with clafpers at the ends of the leaues, whereby it taketh hold of whatloeuerftandcth next yntoit: betweenethe leaues and the ftalkes comeforth the flowers, ftanding two or three together , cuery oneby it felfeon his owacfenerall ftalke, which are either wholly white, or purple, or mixed white and purple, or purple and blew : the fruitarelong,and fomewhat round cods, whereoffone are greater,othersleffer,fome thicke and fhort,fome plaineand fmooth, others little crooked at the ends; wherein alfo are contained diuers formes of fruit or peafe; fome being reund, others cornered, fome fmall, fome great, fome white, 0 thers gray, and fomefpotted: the roateis {mall and quickly perifheth. SZ ir KUN Thekindes ofPeafearethefe: \ \. The Rounciuall. The greene Hafting: Thegtay Peafe. The white Hafting. The'SugarPeafe, The Peafe without skins: The {potted Peafe. The Scottifh or tufted Peafe, which fomecall the Rofe Peale,isa good white Peafe fitto be eaten. The early or French Peafe, which fomecall Fulham Peafe, becaulethole grounds thereabouts doe bring them fooneft forward for any quantity, a; though lometimes they mifcarry by their hafteandearlineffe. Cicer -Arietinam, Rams Ciches; This isa kinde ofPulfe, fo tach vfed in Spaine,thatitis vfually omeoftheir dain- tie difhes.at all their feafts : They are of twoforts > White and red ; the whiteis onely vied for meate, the other for medicine. It beareth many vpright branches with wia- ged leaues, manyfet together, beingfinal; almott round,and dented aboutthe edges: the flowers arecitherwhite or purple, according to.the colourof the Peafe which follow, and are fomewhit round at the head, bat cornered and pojatedat the end, oneot twoat the moft ina finall roundifh cod. The Vie ofPeafe. Peafe ofall or the moft of thefe forts; arecither vfed“when they ate greene, and be'a difhroftncate for the'table of ‘thé rich'a¢ well ag the poore, ycteuery one obferuitig his time, and the kinde’: the fairelt, fweetelt, yout gcft, and earlictt’ for the better fore , thelaterand meaner kindes for the meaner, who doehotgive the deereft price: Or 3 Being dry, they feruc to boyleinto akinde'of Broth or pottage, whereil many doe put Tyme, Mints, Sauory,or fome other fuch hot herbes,togive itthebetcerrellifh, and is much vied in Towne and Countrey ia the Lent rime, ae pir; Jy arden Peale, Pi/ umbcllatum fine Kofeum 1> Fabafatina.Garden Beanes. a 2 Pbafeol /atiui.French Beanes. 2 Pifum vulga'e, i Sul ‘ _ chesor im,a Sporced Peale, a 7 raee Cicer case Arictinnm, Ra Ramste Ciches a Or Scottith Peale. § Pifum Saccbatatum, Sugar Peales 6 -Pifam masaiainm. ~p iCerg, |