GARDEN LETTERS 185 



ayre ; at least very trifling, with the greatest industry 

 of stoves & other artifices. 



We have Aspargus growing wild both in Lincoln- 

 shire 5c in other places; but your Lordship observes, 

 they are small & bitter, & not comparable to the 

 cultivated. 



The red Pepper, I suppose, is what we call Ginny- 

 Peper, of which I have rais'd many plants, whose 

 pods resemble in colour the most oriental & polish'd 

 corall : a very little will set the throat in such a flame, 

 as has ben sometimes deadly, and therefore to be 

 sparingly us'd in sauces. 



I hope your Lordship will furnish your selfe with 

 Melon seedes, because they will last good almost 20 

 years ; & so will all the sorts of Garavances, Calaburos, 

 & Gourds (whatever Herrera affirme) which may be 

 for divers oeconomical uses. 



The Spanish Onion-seede is of all other the most 

 excellent : and yet I am not certaine, whether that 

 which we have out of Flanders & St. Omers, be all 

 the Spanish seede which we know of. My Lady 

 Clarendon (when living) was wont to furnish me with 

 seede that produc'd me prodigious cropps. 



Is it not possible for your Excellency to bring over 

 some of those Quince and Cherry-trees, which your 



