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A HISTORY OF GARDKXIXG IX EXGLAXD. 



miscarry by their hast and earhness."'^ The " Rams ciche" or 

 " ciche pease " {Ciccr arictinuin) was occasionally grown. Turner 

 says he had seldom seen it in England, and Gerard says it "is 

 soun in our London gardens, but not common, '^ This " Chick 

 Pea" never became popular. Miller, writing a hundred years 

 later, says it was much grown in France and Spain, but rarely 

 sown in Enjrland. 



" THE SOUTH PROSPECT OF CASTLE RROMWICH IN WARWICKSHIRE. THE 

 SIR JOHN BRIDGEMAN, BART." DUGUALES "ANTIQUITIES OF WARWICKSHIRE, 



SEAT OK 

 " 1730 



Any practical gardener, if asked the use of an orchard, would, 

 doubtless, reply that the use is to ensure a sufficient supply of 

 fruit; but Lawson tells us that no one can deny, "that the 

 principal end of an orchard is the honest delight of one wearied 

 with the workes of his lawful calling"; and, again, he speaks 



* Parkinson. 



