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house in Essex not far from Saffron Walden, bought, I find, 

 the following garden seeds carrot, radish, cabbage, lettuce, 

 parsnip, spinach, colewort, curled radish, succory, cucumber, 

 skirret, Rounsefalls, clove gillyflowers, gillyflowers, clover seed, 

 saintfoin and asparagus plants, for the first year ; and in the 

 next, in addition to these, striped lettuce, smooth spinach, 

 parsley, scurvy grass, leek, purslane, choice gillyflower, musk 

 milion seeds, artichoke plants, cabbage plants, sandwich peas, 

 winter and summer savory, sweet marjoram, short cucumber 

 and turnip seed. In 1655, the same country gentleman gives 

 me the first notice of cauliflower seed. In 1667 Winchester 

 College buys and plants asparagus sets, in 1671 cauliflower 

 plants, and in"i672 cabbage plants. Had this horticulture been 

 practised before, some evidence of it would hardly have been 

 absent from the accounts. In 1672, tulips are purchased for the 

 garden at Horstead Keynes. In 1697 I find the seeds of clover 

 and rye grass purchased in London in considerable quantities, 

 and in 1698 the following seeds of garden herbs garden cress, 

 lettuce, cauliflower, radish, cornsallet, chervil, Hotspur peas and 

 Windsor beans, salsfrey, spinach, cabbage, carrot, asparagus, 

 French beans, early Dutch cabbage, large onion, parsley, short 

 cucumber, parsnip, sweet marjoram, musk melon, marigold, 

 carduus, sorrel, small and large nasturtian, borage, Roman 

 lettuce, endive, cabbage lettuce, candytuft and roccambole. In 

 the next year, the purchaser adds to his garden seeds, London 

 radish, Lombard lettuce, Dutch brown lettuce, purslane, Lon- 

 don leek, best cucumber, white kidney beans, and plain endive. 

 At Foxcomb in Hants the farmer buys clover and trefoil seed, 

 and in 1702 crap grass and trefoil. In 1702, King's College 

 sows spinach in its garden; and in 1702, besides a considerable 

 purchase of fruit trees, we find dwarf peas, egg peas, and Dutch 

 admiral peas. It cannot be doubted that the origin of these 

 pot and salad herbs and other vegetables was Holland. Carrots 

 occur at Theydon Gernon for the first time in my accounts 

 in 1605, and again at Winchester in 1644; and by an entry 

 at New College, Oxford, in 1691, it is plain that the roots 



