A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

Explore everything; keep the best

By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.