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Apples prepared and boiled with pepper, salt, 

 and oil ; but they yeelde very little nourishment 

 to the bodie, and the same naught and corrupt." 

 Nor does Batty Langley, writing in 1728, mention 

 Tomatos, though he gives long lists of " raw 

 sallets," which include Nasturtium blossoms, 

 Tarragon, Borage flowers, and Sorrel. 



The handsomest of our beds at present (except 

 always the beds of Jackman's Clematis and scarlet 

 Lobelia) is a permanent bed of Tritomas, which 

 hold up their orange and crimson maces thickly as 

 possible. These Tritomas would, however, show 

 to most advantage if planted with the Arundo 

 conspicua, the white plumes of which form the 

 happiest contrast to their glowing spikes. The 

 Pampas-grass would be better still, but I have 

 not been able to make them blossom together. A 

 patch of Tritomas on the corner of the lawn has 

 been a failure, owing to the carelessness of a 

 gardener, who cut them down with the grass in 

 mowing. 



One other bed, also a permanent one, I have 

 still to mention. It is a mass of Anemone japonica 1 



1 Why is this Anemone called japonica ? It was first brought 

 from Simla by Lady Amherst (the wife of the Governor-General of 

 Iniia), as her granddaughter assures me. 



