Gardening.- Virgo (Thomas, of Twickenham) [Notes on gardening, cookery and remedies], manuscript, c. 130pp., numerous tears with some loss, some ff. loose or working loose, numerous ink stains, browned, original vellum, soiled and marked, holes in upper cover for clasps, 8vo, 1750-56. ⁂ Mentions Will's Coffee House and Lady Ogle, widow of Sir Chaloner Ogle (1680/81-1750), naval officer. Notes include: "A receipt to make verry"; "To Pressure frute or a Mellon through ye Winter Put them in & Ise House"; "A Catalogue of ye frute Trees"; "Plant artichooks 6 Foot Asunder..."; "A Catalogue of my Mellons for ye year [17]50"; "Fines of Desenters from ye Church of England"; "A never failing remedy for the Ague"; "Virginity Where of Chaste fools do Boste"; "No Better way to Raise Early Cucumbers"; "The best way to have good Cyder" etc.
Gardening.- Virgo (Thomas, of Twickenham) [Notes on gardening, cookery and remedies], manuscript, c. 130pp., numerous tears with some loss, some ff. loose or working loose, numerous ink stains, browned, original vellum, soiled and marked, holes in upper cover for clasps, 8vo, 1750-56. ⁂ Mentions Will's Coffee House and Lady Ogle, widow of Sir Chaloner Ogle (1680/81-1750), naval officer. Notes include: "A receipt to make verry"; "To Pressure frute or a Mellon through ye Winter Put them in & Ise House"; "A Catalogue of ye frute Trees"; "Plant artichooks 6 Foot Asunder..."; "A Catalogue of my Mellons for ye year [17]50"; "Fines of Desenters from ye Church of England"; "A never failing remedy for the Ague"; "Virginity Where of Chaste fools do Boste"; "No Better way to Raise Early Cucumbers"; "The best way to have good Cyder" etc.
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