Show wild strawberries strawberries straw berries have improved very much in flavor since the fifteenth cen tury until then the orgy only strawberries eaten were wild strawberries of a kind which would never and a market nowadays by however they were beginning to bo be cultivated for records under that date a particularly fine crop frown by the bishop of ely in the grounds of hla his palace now covered by clatton oar don den lie he quotes the duke of Clou gloucester cester as saying to tho the bishop my lord you have very good strawberries in your garden in holborn I 1 require you to let us have a mess mesa of them this speech was copied coaled almost verbatim by shakespeare in webard III still ava kalta the bishops fruit would not ap ao fall 11 much to modern connoisseurs JB the ta garden strawberries a at t that tha mod were only transplanted wild ings the plants being sold eold at about ad a bushel london landon chronicle |