 France, and had hardly a mess of rath-ripe pease but from Holland, which were dainties for ladies ; they came so far, and cost so dear.  Annual Report - Page 520by Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1876Full view - About this book
 | William Stevenson, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - Agriculture - 1809 - 640 pages
...from Holland, apples from France, and had barely a mess of rath-ripe pease but from Holland, which were dainties for ladies, they came so far, and cost so dear. Since, gardening hath crept out of Holland to Sandwich, in Kent, and thence to Surrey, where, though... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Fruit - 1821 - 408 pages
...salads from Holland ; 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, Tusser, Gerard, Bacon, and others, turned their... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Botany, Economic - 1822 - 446 pages
...ease : So doing more tender and greater they wex, if peacocke and turkey, leave jobbing their bex." Yet garden peas appear to have been rare in the early...studied, her days produced the most complete Herbalist (take him on the whole) that has ever written in these kingdoms. Gerard's work is as excellent as it... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Fruit - 1831 - 408 pages
...from Holland : and, 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... | |
 | Agriculture - 1851 - 612 pages
...from Flanders, apples from France, and had hardly a mess of rath-ripe peas but from Holland, which were dainties for ladies — they came so far and cost so dear. Since gardening hath crept out of Holland to Sandwich, Kent, and thence into this county, where, though... | |
 | Lucy Joynes - 1834 - 56 pages
...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 - Arboriculture - 1835 - 1326 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 614 pages
...from Flanders, apples from France; and hardly had a mess of rath-ripe pease but from Holland, which were dainties for ladies, they came so far, and cost so dear. Since gardening hath crept out of. Holland to Sandwich in Kent, and thence into this county, where... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1841 - 566 pages
...from Flanders, apples from France, and had hardly a mess of rath-ripe pease but from Holland, which were dainties for ladies ; they came so far, and cost so dear. Since, Gardening hath crept out of Holland to Sandwich, Kent, and thence into this county, where, though... | |
 | Agriculture - 1851 - 606 pages
...from Flanders, apples from France, and had hardly a mess of rath-ripe peas but from Holland, which were dainties for ladies — they came so far and cost so dear. Since gardening hath crept out of Holland to Sandwich, Kent, and thence into this county, where, though... | |
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