| George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 364 ページ
...apples from France, and hardly a mess of rath ripe peas but from Holland, which were dainties for the ladies, they came so far and cost so dear. Since gardening hath crept out of Holland, to Sandwich, Kent, and thence to Surrey, where, though they have given 6l. an acre and upwards, they have made their... | |
| Henry Phillips - 1821 - 428 ページ
...and, according to Fuller, green pease were seldom seen except from that country. " These," says he, " were dainties for ladies — they came so far and cost so dear." About the commencement of the seventeenth century, Tasser, Gerard, Bacon, and others, turned their... | |
| Henry Phillips - 1822 - 446 ページ
...observes they were seldom seen, except those which were brought from Holland, and " these," says he, " were dainties for ladies, they came so far and cost so dear;" but in the latter part of her reign, gardening had made considerable. progress, and, taking into consideration... | |
| Henry Phillips - 1831 - 408 ページ
...according to Fuller, green peas were seldom seen except from that country. •" These," says he, " were dainties for ladies, they came so far and cost so dear." This politic Queen seems to have constantly patronized horticulture. Turner dedicated his Herbal to... | |
| 1851 - 612 ページ
...fetched most of our cherries from Flanders, apples from France, and had hardly a mess of rath-ripe peas but from Holland, which were dainties for ladies —...Since gardening hath crept out of Holland to Sandwich, Kent, and thence into this county, where, though they have given six pounds an acre and upward, they... | |
| Lucy Joynes - 1834 - 56 ページ
...fetched most of our cherries from Holland, apples from France, and hardly had a mess of raeth-ripe peas, but from Holland, which were dainties for ladies ; they came so far and cost so dear." " A writer vindicating the natural soil of England, instances the abundant crops of sea-pease, which... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 ページ
...fetched most of our cherries from Holland, apples from France ; and hardly had a mess of rath-ripe peas, but from Holland, which were dainties for ladies,...they came so far and cost so dear. Since, gardening bath crept out of Holland to Sandwich, Kent, and thence to Surrey, where, though they have given £6... | |
| Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 616 ページ
...in England. For we fetched most of our cherries from Flanders, apples from France ; and hardly had a mess of rath-ripe pease but from Holland, which...crept out of Holland to Sandwich in Kent, and thence into this county, where though they have given six pounds an acre and upward, they have made their... | |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1841 - 566 ページ
...ago ; before which we fetched most of our cherries from Flanders, apples from France, and had hardly a mess of rath-ripe pease but from Holland, which...Since, Gardening hath crept out of Holland to Sandwich, Kent, and thence into this county, where, though they have given six pounds an aker and upward, they... | |
| 1851 - 606 ページ
...fetched most of our cherries from Flanders, apples from France, and had hardly a mess of rath-ripe peas but from Holland, which were dainties for ladies —...Since gardening hath crept out of Holland to Sandwich, Kent, and thence into this county, where, though they have given six pounds an acre and upward, they... | |
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