“the 
THE. GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 19, 1874, 
altogether cutie’ the plant being called 
Eastern 
Passions, wer; in his Popular “Antiquities, 
says :— 
“In th of England ; a herb poraa in which 
the leaves of ae Passi š 
wih a the ai 
_ blessings r Eia redemption.’ 
This is all very well as fer it goes; but the author 
follows up his ea shee a statement re this 
in the parts of fructificatio uces fancie 
os ions of the m &c,.” No 
doubt he had the Passion-flower in at th 
time, and, misled by the resemblance of name, applied 
to the Bistort the] ary details of the former plant. 
The custom of a herb pudding on is 
ble to the pre- n peri 
probably Reforma riod : 
the law “ol the Catholic Church as to = fast of that 
have sup} 
yos "h whos ai jron 
every year i e spring, about th 
as the pey: ribein ” (Chamb bers Book of D py 
e name is, as I have already 
It has been Fara je it is derived 
difficult to su eppes. a partly Saxon, partly 
name, or ee at such would become general in 
district of England. 
nary opaa of the aa a seems at be 
somewhat generally pantay in the North Lof Er cent. 
Caley says that in were sold about Man- 
abetiate i name of Pati PT e used 
a substitute greens ; and Deering says that 
t Not “the good women er the 
leaves i in the s ~~ and boil them as they do Spinach 
er n greens ; they call them Meeks and 
Gentle Do 2 
I have also a note of pors ‘hoe 
ment in Ayrshire, where used i 
ind niracted by the 
idle. conceit of eating 1 ga aki pulse for forty days = 
Lent, as some say, i se cee of ; for 
have seen several kee hale pd 
tion by that jaar pane that neither Tansy 
nor Steel could ever repair it,” Should our eran 
hos e “Cu linary Notes,” lately appeared i 
pag 
is hike, the following recipe mm. the Closet oe aes 
(I 1706) may be useful to them 
—Take abou 
dozen new-laid eggs, be beat eae ee up with. 3 pints e cream, 
strain them thro’ a coarse linen cloth, and put in n of the 
jege A 
rapt . 
sieht ec of butter. under it, in 
dish, an e it in a moder ately Sines — , Scrape 
over it loaf-sugar, sprinkle rose-water, and se 
Here is a more ancient form, which was idasi 
in 1676 :— 
“ How to Make a very good Tansie,—Take fifteen eggs, 
ont six Sof the whites, beat them very = ]l; then put in 
t 
very tender. When it is fryed enough, then 
pe it in a dish, and strew some sugar upon it and serve 
Perha aps the most remarkable feature of this 
‘‘tansie”—which we should now-a-days call an 
be gn its resemblance to of “Hamlet 
th the part of Beera left out, inasmu uch as 
ar ! More modern r Tansy puddings will 
be found in our okt | ie 1873, pp. 1210 and 1372. 
THE mth = ie 
of the labourer has come to the front, 
ca 
and the agricultural drudge has, in cee = onslaught, 
ve 
lst biype battle, and that in the e of har 
e sa a predicted that his services oe 
be i. and could not be done without. 
ffering the effe ate a defeat, and seeking in all 
humility his old quarters, homeward bound— 
‘t As mountain waves from wasted land 
Roll back to blue. 
s = starred though brave,” the labourers had staked 
very existence upon 5 success of their Union, 
pa now in bitterness of soul they see that ee have 
been leaning still deserve 
eaning upon a broken reed. They st 
the hearty sympathy of RT ria live by ‘‘ labour and 
tillage ; ;” but it is not the cause of the farmers’ man 
t that ote Didin oo Even 
for do not saad ety the hat to woul 
rather kindly and fai 
and 
-into Be Park. ; were until very 
Bey, to be found in the dacuper portions jons of the se 
= the piece of water, 
erb puddings were by no 
former da 
put into a nines io rt 
Gogn, e “it Taen a miniai: rahn (n, 
Le, pde us that it 
leaves i 
o a plant was the Tansy 
poplar is Geer ee yor 
eggs, are 
season; but 
measures, 
upon the ear, usical co ights 
i argument D geren back, so as Tps repeat "ibe 
salient points, and courts applause b 
audience in the chorus and refrain. 
better 
the monasteries in England to his day, and 
== gires Some dogger Taes of the time to prove his 
ourteen eggs a penn 
Tht were both good aa new.” 
In Stockport Market last week eggs were sold at nine 
* Cobbett’s History of the Reformation. 
for 1s.—I had my quotation on the ot—enough 
aney to — peon aerei a mg eggs Re before the 
friars went d be said now-a-da 
of the rate oe wages pai mid ay the Pere she of Holy 
Writ who ee his Vine dressers at all hours of the 
day an e h ~_— an even tariff, e ae etting 
only a ny—denarius, the Roman penny, about 
oink to Ge the = part of an ounce of silver? 
unce, a crown 
eight ‘ee sE usual hire for the d 
per week, for the led day labo 
t no one think lightly of this kind of reckoning. for 
the Parable of ‘*the Labourers in neyard ” is 
purely and simply the word of God, The day is the 
oe as it was then, and the 
n, 
rtable as ever, but the labourers at a 
ra or 
least. The drudgery of horti ws 
f the Medes and Persians, altereth not ;” the 
does not increase as the labou It was once the 
carp re states Is. a day, 
It is too fresh in my memory to be forgotten, that in 
London nurseries, in th yal Garden 
Kensington, e Earl of Mansfield’s, Cae 
other veel round » wi ne pes others, 
the labourers 
ere paid 12s. erhounds 
and other sporting dogs in = Royal Mar had no 
of carrion, and the 
igi so sleek an 
O, : 
posed t the ‘‘ Song of the Shirt” applied to the seam- 
what I am applying to garden labourers— 
“ O God! that bread should be te dear! 
And flesh and blood so cheap ! 
p against a certain illustrious personage — F 
bourers 
It was 
that he he ad ‘the aren pigs and the leanest la 
ibit. 
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he custom 
powder and livery. Now it 
me that liveries concealed = pove 
or rather cover ny he 
that flecked the uniform garnished the Gone by 
o pan well paid, notwithstanding his o 
a 
the “ nimble 
aey 
a-day, ees ge 
so reduced as to live upon Potatos, = a 
bla e staff of life, calling Potat 
root, instead of blessing the plant that fed the pers 
i i 
in w. Connell term 
until oo u should co 
axed ne to > feed the pay > +. the” 
time 
es kept for pleasure in- : 
P 
Had 3 not, been for the Potato pa the soil of 
ve been untilled, fe 
eshire the — 
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