The CABBAGE is an ale-house sign at Hunslet, Leeds, and at Liverpool, and CABBAGE HALL, opposite Chaney Lane, on the road to the Lunatic Asylum, Oxford, was formerly the name of a public-house kept by a tailor; but whether he himself had christened it thus, or his customers had a sly suspicion that it owed its origin to _cabbaging_, history has omitted to record. Another public-house, higher up the hill, was known by the name of CATERPILLAR HALL, a name clearly selected in compliment to Cabbage Hall, intimating that it meant to draw away the customers from Cabbage Hall, in other words, that the caterpillar would eat the cabbage. The OXNOBLE, a kind of potato, is the name of a public-house in Manchester, and the homely mess of PEASE AND BEANS was a sign in Norwich in 1750.[363] The THREE RADISHES was, in the seventeenth century, a common nursery and market gardener’s sign in Holland. There was one near Haarlem, to which was added a representation of Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene in the garden, with this rhyme-- “Christus vertoont men hier Na zyn dood in verryzen, Als een groot hovenier Die ieder een moet pryzen. Dit ’s in de drie Radyzen.”[364] Another, near Gouda, had a still more absurd inscription:-- “Adam en Eva leefden in den Paradyze Zelden aten zy stokvisch maar veel warmoes, kropsla en radyzen. Hier vindt gy allerley aardgewas om menschen mêe te spyzen.”[365] The WHEATSHEAF is an extremely common inn, public-house, and baker’s sign; it is a charge in the arms of these three corporations, besides that of the brewers. In the middle of Farringdon Street, opposite the vegetable market, is Wheatsheaf Yard, once a famous waggon inn, which also did a roaring trade in wine, spirits, and Fleet Street marriages. Indeed, most of the large inns within the liberties of the Fleet served as “marriage shops” between 1734 and 1749; amongst the most famous were the BULL AND GARTER, the HOOP AND BUNCH OF GRAPES, the BISHOP BLAIZE AND TWO SAWYERS, the FIGHTING COCKS, and numerous others. The gateway entrance to the old coach-yard is adorned with very fine carvings of wheat ears and lions’ heads intermixed, finished in a manner not unworthy of Grinling Gibbons himself. The OATSHEAF is very rare; it was the sign of a shop in Cree Church Lane, Leadenhall Street, in the seventeenth century, as appears from a trades token; but this seems the only instance of the sign.