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and echoed. I am afraid that I should not 

 be thanked for quoting Thorne at large ; 

 yet let me give four lines of his doggerel 

 eulogy : 



4 ' The rich likewise and better sorte, 



His labours could not misse : 

 Which makes them many times to thinke, 

 That Salop London is." 



To do no more than justice to Gardiner 

 himself, however, his tract deals in a sensible 

 and practical way enough with the subject 

 undertaken. He includes beans, carrots, 

 turnips, onions, cucumbers (which Thorne, 

 by the way, approaches nearer to the French 

 by terming concombers), artichokes, cabbages, 

 lettuces, and parsnips ; and he very strongly 

 represents the advantage which might accrue 

 from a more extended cultivation of these 

 vegetables, especially carrots, instead of de- 

 pending on the continental supply, which 

 afforded to the foreigners so lucrative a 

 trade. He dwells most in detail on the 

 carrot. 



He particularises three species as being 



