ANTIQUITIES. 



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Quince trees. 



Raspis. 



Reisons. 



Small nuts. 



Strawberries, red and white. 



Service trees. 



Wardens, white and red. 



Wallnuts. 



Wheat plums. 



Though the fig is omitted by 

 Tusser, it was certainly introduced 

 into our gardens before he wrote. 

 Cardinal Pole is said to have im- 

 ported from Italy that tree which 

 is still growing in the garden of 

 the archbishop's Palace, at Lam- 

 beth. 



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tion of his work, under the title of 

 One Hundred Points of good Hus- 

 bandry, in 1557. 



In his fourth edition, from 

 whence this list is taken, he first 

 introduced the subject of garden- 

 ing, and has given us not only a 

 list of the fruits, but also of all 

 the plants then cultivated in our 

 gardens, either for pleasure or pro- 

 fit, under the following heads. 



Seedes and herbes for the 

 kychen, herbes and rootes for sal- 

 lets and sawce, herbes and rootes 

 to boyle or to butter, strewing- 

 herbes of all sorts, herbes, branch- 

 es and flowers for windowes and 

 pots, herbes to still in summer, 

 necessarie herbes to grow in the 

 gardens for physick not reherst 

 before. 



This list consists of more than 

 150 species, besides the following 

 fruits : 



FRUITS 



Apple trees of all sorts. 



Apricockes. 



Barberries. 



Boollesse, black and white. 



Cherries, red and black. 



Chestnuts. 



Cornet plums. 



Damisens, white and black 



Filberds, red and white. 



Gooseberries. 



Grapes, white and red. 



Grene, or grass plums. 



Hurtil-berries. 



Medlars, or merles. 



Mulberry. 



Peaches, white and red. 



Peeres of all sorts. 



Peer plums, black and yellow. 



• Mr. Owen, in his Welch Dictionary, under the word bedw, birch, says, that 

 ' it was an emblem of readiness, or complacency, in doing a kind act. If a young 

 woman accepted of the addresses of a lover, she gave him the birchen-branch, mostly 

 formed into a crown ; but if he was rejected, she gave him a collen, or hazel.' 



Account of ancient Customs in 

 Cheshire. 



[From Messrs. Lysons' MagnaBritannia, 

 Vol. II. Part II.] 



Of the customs and ceremonies 

 peculiar to certain parts of the 

 kingdom, Cheshire has its full 

 share ; we shall notice some of 

 those which are most remarkable. 

 There is a custom among the 

 young men, of placing, on the 

 first of May, large birchen boughs 

 over the doors of the houses, 

 where the young women reside to 

 whom they pay their addresses;* 

 and an alder bough is often found 

 placed over the door of a scold. 



Another singular custom which 

 prevails in this country, is that of 

 lifting at Easter. On Easter Mon- 

 day, the young men deck out a 

 chair with flowers and ribbands. 



