It is interesting to recall that the gardener of James the Second conidered that 'a proper salad should have no less than 85 ingredients! What he would have thought of many of the modern salads, which teensist of tomato, lettuce,. and onions only in many eases, one cannot imagine.
One must remember, of course that in those days a great many! items were used which are never heard of nowadays—all quite good in their way and with a distinct alr fof romance and beauty about them such as the petals of roses, violets, primroses,.and cowslips, and the flowers of the elder marigold, nasturiums, gillyflower, and orange, So mich were those salad quisite in demand that many of them were dried and powdered, and others were preserved vin a thin syrup for winter use.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.