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hog-pea en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An heirloom field pea or a native vining legume, grey-brown in color.
   • we shall only state the names of those which amply repay the labour and expence of cultivation; namely, the Grey Hog-Pea 1802, Unattributed, Domestic Encyclopædia, Volume 3^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Domestic_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_(1802)/Pea):
   • The grey or hog pea was the most common field pea in 18th century England. In one of the few references to field peas in 18th century Virginia, Jefferson wrote to George Washington in 1796, ” “I am trying the white boiling pea of Europe (the Albany) this year, till I can get the hog pea of England, which is the most productive of all.” 2008, Slack, Susan, “Farmer's Market Report: Dixie Lee Peas”, in Taste of California:
   • After many Years Experience, we Hertfordshire Farmers have found none to answer our Intereſt ſo well as the Horn-grey Hog-pea;, the Maple, the Blue, and the White. It is theſe four Sorts that we chiefly fow in our incloſed Fields, in Refuſal of all others 1744, Ellis, William, chapter VII, in The modern husbandman, or, The practice of farming / by William Ellis v.2, page 62:
   • Thought this was Hog Pea at first but leaves are different and it had little itty bitty orange flowers. — Gloucester 2021, Tammy Newhouse Gill, Virginia Native Plant Society Group:

Forms

Synonyms

carlin pea · maple pea · grey peas · black badger