Nuneaton was not a Stratford on Avon, nor had it a salubrious air.

to decore a cabbage

Cochins or Shanghaes.

It was generally believed, before the experiments made by M. Kuhn, but without any foundation, and upon simple conjecture, that the seminules or spores of the ustilagoes and uredoes of the cereals penetrate by the radicles of the plant in order to arrive, creeping by degrees, to the leaves and seeds of those vegetables.