Facts for Everybody: An Encyclopædia of Useful Knowledge

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Robert Kemp Philp. Facts for Everybody: An Encyclopædia of Useful Knowledge

Facts for Everybody: An Encyclopædia of Useful Knowledge

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Preface

FACTS FOR EVERYBODY:

A Miscellany of Useful Knowledge

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Robert Kemp Philp

Published by Good Press, 2021

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February and March. All meats and game as in the former month, with the addition of chickens and ducklings. Fish.—Exactly as last month, excepting cod, which is not supposed to be quite so good up to July. Vegetables.—Just the same as the previous month, only now you have kidney beans. Fruits.—Apples and pears, and forced strawberries.

April, May, and June. Meats.—Beef, mutton, veal, lamb, and in June venison. Poultry.—Pullets, fowls, chickens, ducklings, pigeons, rabbits, and leverets. Vegetables as before, only in May early potatoes, peas, radishes, French beans, early cabbages, carrots and turnips, cauliflowers, asparagus, artichokes, and all kinds of salad, but this is forced. Fruits.—In June, strawberries, cherries, melons, green apricots, currants, and gooseberries for tarts only. Fish.—Carp, soles, tench, smelts, eels, trout, turbot, lobsters, chub, salmon, herrings, crayfish, mackerel, crabs, prawns, and shrimps.

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