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miscarry by their hast and earliness."* The " Rams ciche" or 

 " ciche pease " (Cicer arietinum] was occasionally grown. Turner 

 says he had seldom seen it in England, and Gerard says it "is 

 soun in our London gardens, but not common." This " Chick 

 Pea" never became popular. Miller, writing a hundred years 

 later, says it was much grown in France and Spain, but rarely 

 sown in England. 



" THE SOUTH PROSPECT OF CASTLE BROMWICH IN WARWICKSHIRE. THE SEAT OF 

 SIR JOHN BRIDGEMAN, BART." DUGDALE'S "ANTIQUITIES OF WARWICKSHIRE," 1730. 



Any practical gardener, if asked the use of an orchard, would, 

 doubtless, reply that the use is to ensure a sufficient supply of 

 fruit ; but Lawson tells us that no one can deny, " that the 

 principal end of an orchard is the honest delight of one wearied 

 with the workes of his lawful calling"; and, again, he speaks 



* Parkinson. 



