250 NATURAL HISTORY 
priories. The barons neglected every pursuit that 
did not lead to war or tend to the pleasure of the 
chase. 
It was not till gentlemen took up the study of 
horticulture themselves that the knowledge of gar- 
dening made such hasty advances. Lord Cobham, 
Lord Ila, and Mr. Waller of Beaconsfield, were 
some of the first people of rank that promoted the 
elegant science of ornamenting, without despising 
the superintendence of the kitchen quarters and 
fruit walls. 
A remark made by the excellent Mr. Ray in his 
Tour of Europe at once surprises us and corrobo- 
rates what has been advanced above ; for we find 
him observing, so late as his days, that “the Ital- 
ians used several herbs for salads which are not 
yet or have not been but lately used in England, 
viz., selleri (celery), which is nothing else but the 
sweet smallage, the young shoots whereof, with a 
little of the head of the root cut off, they eat raw 
with oil and pepper.” And farther he adds, 
‘curled endive blanched is much used beyond 
seas, and for a raw salad seemed to excel lettuce 
itself.’ Now this journey was undertaken no 
longer ago than in the year 1663. 
LETTER XXXIV. 
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Selborne, Feb. 12, 1778 
Dear Sir, 
“‘ Forté puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido, 
Dixerat, ecquis adest? et, adest, responderat echo. 
Hic stupet; utque aciem partes divisit in omnes ; 
Voce, veni, clamat magna. Vocat illa vocantem.” 
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