1 1 6 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



others of which I shall give an account ; and 

 of fruit and other trees, the pearmain (a 

 species of apple mentioned in Drayton's 

 Polyolbion as a novelty), the pomegranate, the 

 bullace-plutn, the mulberry, the masculum 

 (which is glossed orange), the damson, the 

 filbert, the almond, the dog-rose, the syca- 

 more, and the cedar. The peach was also 

 known, as well as the apricot or apricock; 

 but the nectarine is not specified ; it may, 

 like the apricot, have been included among 

 the plums, although in the stone and skin 

 both so materially differ therefrom. 



Onion (yne-leac) and garlic (gar-leac) have 

 been noticed as entering into the cookery of 

 the eleventh or twelfth century. 



Now enters the onion-seller as an inde- 

 pendent calling, shewing how largely that 

 precious esculent began to enter into our 

 cookery ; and also the vendor of apples. 



The Spanish onion was in use in the time 

 of Charles II. Evelyn reports it in his letter 

 to Lord Sandwich (1668) : 



"The Spanish onion seed is of all other the most 

 excellent, and yet I am not certain whether that which 



