CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

PEAS

Description. Peas are more used in the kitchen than in the shops, bein known to every body to have whitish green leaves, consisting of two or three pair of large oval pinnæ, with claspers at the ends; the stalks are weak, angular, and not able to support themselves. The flowers are white and papilionaceous; and the peas, when ripe, round and white.

Place. They are planted in fields and gardens.

Time. They flower in May, and the fruit is eat in June.

Government and virtues. Jupiter in Aries has dominion of this esculent plant. Peas, when green, are a pleasant, grateful, nourishing food, but somewhat flatulent and windy, as well as when dry; and are good to sweeten the blood, and correct salt scorbutic illness, either raw or boiled.