[349] Curiously enough, until about 1820, a public-house, the sign of the Vine, in Dobie Street, St Giles, occupied the very site assigned to this vineyard in Domesday Book, A.D. 1070. [350] Hollinshed’s Description of Britain, p. 3. [351] Faulkner, Antiquities of Kensington. [352] Grosley, vol. i., p. 83. [353] He lived then in Exeter Street, at a stay-maker’s. Boswell’s Johnson: London, 1819, p. 67. [354] “In spring-time the fig-tree does not make any show of beautiful flowers or precocious fruit to deceive mankind with idle hope; but in autumn it generally produces exceedingly sweet fruit, with flowers as it were contained within them.”--_Joachimus Camerarius_, “_Symbolorum Centuriæ Quatuor_,” 1697, Centur. i., p. 18. [355] “Among the many curious properties which the writers on natural history attribute to the palm tree, it is not one of the least singular that this tree cannot well thrive unless it be properly basked by the beams of the sun, and watered by some neighbouring stream.”--_J. Camerarius_, “_Centuria_,” i., 1697. [356] Defoe’s Journey through England, p. 168. [357] Horace Walpole’s Letters to Mr Mann, February 6, 1780. [358] As quoted in Disraeli’s Curiosities of Literature, ii. p. 326. [359] _Publick Advertiser_, Tuesday, June 16-22, 1657. [360] Hatton’s New View of London, 1708, p. 36. [361] Bagford Bills. [362] Evelyn’s Miscellaneous Writings, p. 735. [363] _Gent. Mag._, March 1842. [364] “Christ is represented here After his death and resurrection, As a great gardener Whom every body must praise. This is at the Three Radishes.” [365] “Adam and Eve lived in Paradise, They rarely ate stock fish, but a great deal of hotchpotch, lettuce, and radishes. All sorts of vegetables sold here for human food.” A similarly dull joke occurs in an old English comedy, “Law Tricks,” by John Day, 1608. “I have heard old Adam was an honest man and a good gardener, loved lettuce well, salads and cabbage reasonably well, yet no tobacco.” CHAPTER VIII. BIBLICAL AND RELIGIOUS SIGNS.