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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… SPINACH, CABBAGE, BROCCOLI, CAULIFLOWER, FRENCH BEANS and ASPARAGUS. 'You should always be careful', she wrote, 'that …
Journal of the House of Lords
… not) with One Hundred Pieces of Gold, and Three Bunches of Asparagus. And this Examinant further faith, That, after he …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by 10 or more businesses. 51 Among the crops were asparagus and rhubarb on a smallholding in Milton Road in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… 245, 247, 259, 266. Ashurst, in Lyghe, 272. Ashway's, 169. Asparagus, beds of, at Gravesend, 324. Asteley, Thomas, 213, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… village greens, Wood green, Ashwell (Herts.): resident, asparagus, asphalt making, Aspland: Jane Eliz., John, Rob. … rotation crops and produce, selected and less common, see asparagus; bullimong; butter; cabbages; celery; cheese; …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Frances, see Cotton Harriet, m. Sir Thos. Hatton, fam., asparagus, Aspland: Thos., Aspland ( cont.) fam., assarting, … fields, crops and produce, selected or less com mon, see asparagus; butter; celery; cheese; clover; coleseed; cucum …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 287 a. in 1970, and celery, 236 a. in 1950, besides much asparagus. From the late 1920s the main such crop was …
Survey of London
… to provide in addition to a money rent one hundred of Asparagus in the Month of January in every Year. 14 In 1785 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of hedging shrubs, fruit trees, grass seed, flowers, and asparagus plants at his nursery; he visited South … in Lichfield in the early 19th century. 92 Potatoes, asparagus, and gooseberries were grown by Thomas Cartmail in …
The Environs of London
… observations on the vegetables used in this country. The asparagus 6, he says, was very small and very dear in London, … was not cultivated to a greater extent, since an acre of asparagus would, in a short time, yield more profit than ten … for the market by farming-gardeners. The cultivation of asparagus is carried on to the greatest extent in the …