FARMING FOR LADIES. 165 



To this we must add, that a friend of our's 

 fattens his fowls without cramming ; and that 

 chiefly on the seed of the sun-Jloicer, which 

 most ladies have in their gardens, and which, 

 as Moore elegantly says — 



'• turns to her god, when he sets, 

 The same look that she turned when he rose." 



Its properties are not only highly fattening, 

 but are thought to impart to the flesh some- 

 what of the flavour of the pheasant ; this, how- 

 ever, having been denied in a recent publica- 

 tion,* and we also conceiving that the seed 

 would render it oily, he lately sent up a pair 

 for our use from his residence in Surrey. 

 They were fine fowls— roasted, of course, and 

 served up with bread-sauce to a large party, 

 who all tasted of them, and admitted that 

 they were highly flavoured, without any ap- 

 pearance of oiliness, but devoid of the pecu- 

 har haut-gout of game, though very fat : yet 



" Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, No. xl., p. 519. 



