To a Gardener, by Robert Louis Stevenson
……
Nor thence be missed the speary heads
of artichoke; nor thence the bean
that gathered innocent and green
outsavours the belauded pea.
These tend, I prithee; and for me,
thy most long-suffering master, bring
in April, when the linnets sing
and the days lengthen more and more,
at sundown to the garden door.
And I, being provided thus,
shall, with superb asparagus,
a book, a taper, and a cup
of country wine, divinely sup.
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* esculents - suitable for eating, edible
* pease-cods - the pod of the pea
Writing in the fourth century AD, Palladius, an agricultural author recommended that a cat be kept in an artichoke patch to keep away rodents and moles.
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