154 List of Fruits cultivated by the Romans. 



fingers on the hand. Martial speaks favour- 

 ably of the hard skinned grape for eating, 

 xiii. 22. 



Walnuts. They had soft shelled, and hard shelled, as we 

 have : in the golden age, when men lived upon 

 acorns, the gods lived upon walnuts, hence the 

 name Juglans, Jovis Glans. 



As a matter of curiosity, it has also been deemed expedient 

 to add a list of the fruits cultivated in our English gardens, in 

 the year 1573 : it is taken from a book entitled Five Hundred 

 Points of- Good Husbandry, &c. by Thomas Tusser. 



Thomas Tusser, who had received a liberal education at 

 Eton school, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, lived many years 

 as a farmer in Suffolk and Norfolk : he afterwards removed 

 to London, where he published the first edition of his work, 

 under the title of 100 Points of Good Husbandry, in 1557- 



In his fourth edition, from whence this list is taken, he first 

 introduced the subject of gardening, and has given us not 

 only a list of the fruits, but also of all the plants then culti- 

 vated in our gardens, either for pleasure or profit, under the 

 following heads. 



" Seedes and Herbes for the Kychen ; Herbes and Rootes 

 for Sallets and Sawce ; Herbes and Rootes to boyle or to but- 

 ter ; Strewing Herbs of all sorts ; Herbes, Branches and 

 Flowers for windowes and pots ; Herbs to still in summer ; 

 Necessarie herbes to grow in the gardens for Physick not 

 reherst before." 



This list consists of more than 150 species, besides the 

 following fruits. 



