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garden. In 1688, Winchester College plants twelve horse- 

 chesnuts, and twelve Dutch elms. In 1690, Eton buys eight 

 plum trees, and Winchester sixty lime trees, twenty-four fir 

 trees, and four cypresses ; and in the next year fifteen more 

 cypresses. In 1692. New College buys seven lime trees, 

 which are very likely still standing; and in 1693 and 1694 fir 

 trees. In 1698, Caryll plants 120 redstreaks, a kind of apple 

 I believe ; and in 1700 fifty chesnut trees. In 1702, King's 

 College, Cambridge, plants 115 Philarees, by which I presume 

 is meant lime trees ; while the following fruit and ornamental 

 trees are purchased in London nine peach, six nectarine, four 

 apricot, five pear, two plum, six standard duke cherry, six 

 standard May cherry, two wall duke cherry, forty-six honey- 

 suckles, three lauristinuses, and one round-headed lauristinus. 

 I do not indeed assert that these are the first occasions on 

 which such fruit and ornamental trees are planted in the 

 several localities in which they occur, but when one considers 

 how particular and how minute the accounts are of the time 

 in everything except carpenters' and masons' bills, the previous 

 silence of the accounts is I submit very significant. 



There yet remain a few products on which a brief comment 

 should be made. On five occasions cabbages are purchased ; 

 in 1585 at ^d. a piece, in 1594 at id., in 1597 at id. (one of 

 these is in London, the other two at Worksop), in 1621 for $d. 

 at Wormleighton, and in 1641 for id. at Winchester. It is 

 difficult to account for these prices. Again, there are fourteen 

 entries of artichokes by the head and two by the bushel ; the 

 first and second in London at id. and i\d. In 1603 they cost 

 $d. at Theydon Gernon ; in 1604, \\d. at the same place, where 

 they are again $d. in 1607. In 1608 they are i\d. in London, 

 in 1621 they are at 4d. at Wormleighton, where they are also 

 twice bought by the bushel in the same year at $s. ^d. and 3$. 

 They cost at Winchester, where they are a favourite vegetable, 

 4d. in 1640, 6d. in 1641, i\d. in 1642, $\d. in 1643 (when 160 

 are bought), $d. in 1644. They are found in the manciple's 

 book again in 1684, 1685 and 1686, when they are at 3^., and 



