P-ORCING STRAIVBERIUES UNDER GLASS. 187 



An English writer says : " We find forced strawberries 

 mentioned as being served at an installation dinner, April 

 23d, 1667 ; but the idea had already occurred to the great 

 Lord Bacon, who writes, ' As we have housed the exotics of 

 hot countries, so we may house our natives to forward them, 

 and thus have violets, strawberries, and pease all winter.' " 



