ENGLAND'S FIRST CARP.
The first carp introduced into England are said to have swum in the moat of Plumpton Place, Lewes (Strssex), which Jlascall. In his famous "Worthies of England," Thomas Fuller wrote:— "Leonard Mascall, of Plumsted (Plumpton) in tin's country, being much delighted in gardening, man's original vocation, was the first who brought over into England, from beyond the seas, carps and pippins; the one, well cook'd, delicious, the other cordial and restorative. For the proof hereof, we have his own word and witness; and did it, it seems, about the fifth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, Anno Dom., 1514." Maseall was a keen horticulturist, and wrote and translated several books on his hobby. In one the method of making apples fall from a tree is given as follows:— "If ye put fiery coles under an apple tree, and then cast off the powder of brimstone therein, and the funic thereof ascend up, and touch an apple that is wet, that apple shall fall incontinant."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 12 (Supplement)
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170ENGLAND'S FIRST CARP. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 12 (Supplement)
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