garden pea

IPA: gˈɑrdʌnpˈi

Examples of "garden-pea" in Sentences

The plant has somewhat the appearance of the dwarf garden-pea, though more bushy.
The varieties of the common garden-pea are numerous, and differ considerably from each other.
-- Most botanists look at the garden-pea as specifically distinct from the field-pea (_P. arvense_).
The latter exists in a wild state in Southern Europe; but the aboriginal parent of the garden-pea has been found by one collector alone, as he states, in the Crimea. [
This is the case with the garden-pea, and also with our beautiful bee-orchis, in which the pollen-masses constantly fall on to the stigmas, and the flower, being thus self-fertilised, produces abundance of capsules and of seed.
In the various kinds of peas and beans it is the pod or fruit and the seed that has been subjected to selection, and therefore greatly modified; and it is here very important to notice that while all these plants have undergone cultivation in a great variety of soils and climates, with different manures and under different systems, yet the flowers have remained but little altered, those of the broad bean, the scarlet-runner, and the garden-pea, being nearly the same in all the varieties.