Leek
This was at one time so much cultivated in England that the very name for a garden was leac-tun, and the very name for a gardener was leac-ward. Still, however, the plant holds a respectable place in the Lettuce flavouring of soups. The Scotch have a soup-Cock-aleekie-which makes much of the leek; and in the French or rather Flemish kitchen the Leek soup and the Potatoand-leek soup (that is, leeks added to potato soup) are in considerable repute.