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they would easily obtain whatever they set 

 their hearts upon. We can match this cre- 

 dulity in modern times, by that of the disci- 

 ples of Johanna Southcot. 



The garden-endive appears to have been 

 first cultivated in England in the reign of 

 Edward the Sixth, 1548; but the wild endive 

 or succory, Intubus, being indigenous to the 

 soil, was sown in all probability at a much 

 earlier period, both as a pot-herb and as a 

 salad, as Old Gerard informs us, that " the 

 leaves of these wilde herbes are boiled in 

 pottage or broths for sicke and feeble persons 

 that haue hot, weake, and feeble stomacks, 

 to strengthen the same." This early and ex- 

 cellent English herbalist notices that the 

 wild endives " do growe wilde in sundry 

 places in Englande, vpon wilde and vntilled 

 barren grounds, especially in chalkie and 

 stonie places." He also gives an account of 

 the manner by which the garden-endive was 

 preserved for winter use in the time of Queen 

 Elizabeth. 



" Endiue being sown in July, it remaineth 

 till winter, at which time it is taken vp by the 

 rootes, and laide in the sunne or aire for the 

 space of two houres ; then will the leaues be 

 tough, and easily endure to be wrapped vpon 



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