Useful plants : plants adapted for the food of man described and illustrated.

Date:
1870
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Credit: Useful plants : plants adapted for the food of man described and illustrated. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hedgerows. The wild variety has a sweet peculiar flavour, but is of very small size. Its name is an old Saxon one, and means the “ strawing,” or “spreading” berry, because it Quince. grows on the ground, and creeps along it like ivy over a wall. You do not despise straw- berries, I know, Edward. Strawberries and cream, on a hot day, I take to be a dish for a king—or a queen either ! Do you like the large kind, called hautboy, or oboe—that is, haut bois, two French words for the “high wood ”—be- cause it was first found on the wooded hills of Hungary ? Every kind, however, has a rich,