Crossword-Solution: POIS 4 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The tall kinds have larger leaves than the dwarf kinds, but not in strict proportion to their height:—_Hair’s Dwarf Monmouth_ has very large leaves, and the _Pois nain hatif,_ and the moderately tall _ Blue Prussian,_ have leaves about two-thirds of the size of the tallest kind.

Gordon includes eleven sub-varieties, it is the pod which differs most; thus _Lewis’s Negro-podded pea_ has a straight, broad, smooth, and dark-purple pod, with the husk not so thin as in the other kinds; the pod of another variety is extremely bowed; that of the _Pois géant_ is much pointed at the extremity; and in the variety “à grands cosses” the peas are seen through the husk in so conspicuous a manner that the pod, especially when dry, can hardly at first be recognised as that of a pea.

The varieties, however, of the _Pois sans parchemin_ differ much more in their pods, and these are eaten and valued.

The thin-shelled peas, called _pois sans parchemin,_ are attacked by birds[25] much more commonly than ordinary peas.

They recalled memories of old days, when no doubt a dog cutlet would have been less tempting than now -- memories of dishes on which the cutlets were elegantly arranged side by side, with paper frills on the bones, and a neat pile of petits pois in the middle.