maize, and the like. For wheat, barley, and oats, they ask too much labour; but with pease[1] and beans you may begin, both because they ask less labour, and because they serve for meat as well as for bread. And of rice likewise cometh a great increase, and it is a kind of meat. Above all there ought to be brought store of biscuit, oat-meal, flour, meal, and the like, in the beginning, till bread may be had. For beasts, or birds, take chiefly such as are least subject to diseases, and multiply fastest; as swine, goats, cocks, hens, turkeys, geese, house-doves,[2] and the like. The victual in plantations ought to be expended almost as in a besieged town; that is, with certain allowance. And let the main part of the ground employed[3] to gardens or corn,[4] be to[5] a common stock; and to be laid in, and stored up, and then delivered out in proportion; besides some spots of ground that any particular person will manure for his own private.[6] Consider likewise what commodities the soil where the plantation is
- ↑ Pease. Archaic plural from the Middle English singular 'pesë.' When the final e of 'pese' disappeared, the s of 'pes' (pease) was supposed to be the plural ending, and then the singular 'pe' (pea) was made to suit it. The singular 'pea' is a case of an error in English that has established itself in good usage.
- ↑ House-dove. A dove kept in a dove-house.
- ↑ Employ. To apply (a thing) to some definite purpose; followed by the prepositions for, in, on, and to. Archaic.
- ↑ Corn. Grain.
- ↑ To. For. "His house is not quite a mile from this place; and if he should not be at home himself, he hath a pretty young man to his son, whose name is Civility." John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress. III.
- ↑ Private. Personal interest or use; particular business. "My lords, this strikes at every Roman's private." Ben Jonson. Sejanus his Fall. iii. 1.
distributed from the Parnese garden, in Rome. There it was called girasole articiocco, which means 'sunflower artichoke.' 'Jerusalem' is an English corruption of girasole ('turning with the sun').
