... first-rate blood purifier. Sorrel and sainfoin our fathers used largely for salads, and comfrey affords a cheap substitute for asparagus. NOli one man in a thousand nowadays knows any- thing of the taste of these herbs. Withregard. to herbs which are sold in ...

... prices. Whitebait is retailed at from eighteen pence per pint. Escallops are cheap. The vegetable markets are attractive. Asparagus is cheaper, owing to the arrival of supplies from Spain. New potatoes are cheaper, quantities having been received from the ...

... vegetable market is in a brisk cheerful condition, with abundant sup- plies coming in and business improving every day. Asparagus is rather dearer than it ought to be in mid-May. Green peas are retaded in West-end shops at Is per lb. There are some large ...

... Young cabbages are dear as yet, being scarcely larger than well grown let. tuces. Peas are still at 8d to Is per lb. retail. Asparagus is much cheaper. There is a good supply of gooseberries from abroad for Whitsuntide at low prices. The English fruit is much ...

... sold in the West- end at eighteenpence the pint. A few early vegetable marrows are now obtainable. The bountiful supply of asparagus continues. Cauli. flowers are dear, and not to be depended on just now, being likely to turn out hard and stringy. French ...

... namelv, ham in honey, a pure of peas, vegetables, and dogfish four side dishes haricot cheese with bamboo buds (a kind of asparagus), roots of bam- boo, chicken, shellfish four hors d'eeuvres in duplicate ham and chicken, fish and gizzard, pork tripe, and ...

... at from 4d per lb., a very low price at this season. Young carrots and turnips are also unusually in. .expensive. English asparagus is very abundant and cheap. Rhubarb is uncommonly fine, and- sells at low prices. Mushrooms are good and plentiful. Spinach ...

... gloomy view. But this valley is favour- ably situated for the growth of fruit and tbe better class of vegetables, such as asparagus, yet even then it is only by conltant toil and severe deprivation that the stocking is filled. Occasion- ally, too, the peasant ...

... West-end shops at a penny each. Brocoli is now dear. Green peas are sold at 4d the pound, unshelled. In Frenoh beans and asparagus there is no change to chronicle. Cabbages are inexpensive. English peaches are procurable at about five pence each. Straw ...

... at a quarter-past twelve for a one o'clock meal at half-past put the potatoes to boil, a few minutes later peas, beans, asparagus, cauli- flower, or cabbage. Always put any fresh vege- table in boiling water. Beet or carrots should be put on to boil at ...

... namely. ham in honey, a pure of peas. vegetables, and dogfish four side dishes haricot cheese with bamboo buds (a kind of asparagus), roots of bam- boo, chicken, shelltish; four hore d'eeuvres in duplicate; ham and chicken, fish and gizzard, pork tripe ...

... drapery, and tables in the bays supported slender crystal vases, filled with magnificent chrysanthemum blooms and trailing asparagus ferns. The concert room was lighted by clusters of lamps affixed to the garter shields beneath the knightly trophies displayed ...