STRAWBERRY.] NATURAL HISTORY. 299 



pass tofore them, as it were leading the Storks, and with- 

 stand with all their might fowls that hate Storks. 



Bartholomew (Bertkelet], bk. xii. 8. 



STORKS nourish their parents when oppressed with age. 



Minsheu's Dictionary, s.v. 



Stover. 



TEMPEST, iv. I, 63. 



Stover, or Estover Fodder. 



Minsheu s Dictionary, s.v. 



THRESH barley as yet but as need shall require 

 Fresh threshed for Stover thy cattle desire. 



Tusser, " November's Husbandry." 



Straw. 



SOME Straw is kept to fodder of beasts, for it is first meat 

 that is laid tofore beasts, namely in some countries, as in 

 Tuscany. And the kind thereof is cold that it suffereth 

 not snow that falleth to shed [melt], and is so hot that it 

 compelleth apples for to ripen. 



Bartholomew (Bertkelef], bk. xvii. 65. 



Strawberry. 



The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, 

 And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best 

 Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. 



KING HENRY V., i. I, 6c. 



My lord of Ely, 

 When I was last in Holborn, 

 I saw good strawberries in your garden there. 



KING RICHARD III., iii. 4, 34. 



STRAWBERRIES do grow upon hills and vallies, likewise 

 in woods, and other such places that be somewhat shadowy; 

 they prosper well in gardens. Gerard's "Herbal," <.v. 



[Evelyn (" Kalendarium Hortense ") enumerates the follow- 

 ing kinds: Common Wood, English Garden, American or Vir- 

 ginian, Polonian, White Coped, Long Red, Green, Scarlet, etc.] 



