SECT. XV. OF ESCULENTS. £01 



ing them to our ufe, by an unnecefTary preference 16 

 other foods. " There was a time, when bread and 

 herbs (with a little fruit) were the only dainties 

 wherewith the tables oi" the greateft voluptnaries were 

 fpread." 



" Vegetables and fruits were our innocent, primi- 

 tive, and natural food ; but men's depraved appetites 

 have fubftituted the fhambles ; yet, after all, the inven- 

 tions of the moll luxurious and voluptuous epicure, the 

 molt Cafarian tables would want of their magnificence, 

 noble guft, and grateful reliih, withou: fruit and the 

 productions of the garden, which gives the true con- 

 diment, and mofl agreeable clofure to all the reft." 



"Their ufe is, all our life long, of that umverfal 

 importance and concern, that we can neither live nor 

 fubfift in any plenty, with decency or convenience, or 

 be faid to live at all without the^i : whatfoever contri- 

 butes to delight or refrefh us, are fupplied and brought 

 forth out of this plentiful and delightful ifore of the 

 garden . ' ' 



Let it be a rule to gather vegetables of all kinds 

 (deiigned for the table) in the morning, before much 

 fun has Ihined on them, and lay them by in a cool place- 

 till wanted. 



Alexander is a culinary plant, formerly much 

 ufed, bat has given way to celery; like which it is 

 blanched (about a foot high) for ufe in foups and fallads. 

 The feeds are bed fown in drills two feet afunder,- 

 and thinned to fix or eight inches diftance, though they 

 may be fown at broad caft and tranfplanted. Spring 

 fown plants come in for autumn, and autumn ones for 

 the ufe of fpring. 



Artichoke, there are two kinds of, the globe and 

 the conical. The latter is the hardieff , but the former 

 is generally preferred, both for fize and flavour. Arti- 

 chokes are propa.a:ed from rooted flips, or offsets in 

 K 5 April, 



