HOW TO USE THE FRUITS OF THE GARDEN 



pots, with whole pepper and as much vinegar as 

 covers them all over, stopping them close. 



Asparagus maybe parboyled and pickled as arti- 

 chocks, and so may green peas with cods. 



Purslainas cucumbers; and so may taragon,sam- 

 peir, broom-buds, &c. 



Lettice, endive, sellery, &c. by blanching and 

 ranging among sand in cellars. Cabbage by hanging. 

 Roots by housing, sanding, &c. as is shewed in 

 Chap. VI. Sweet herbes as well as physical, by 

 hanging to dry in some open room, not in the sun, 

 as some advise. 



Put marygold-flowers in paper-bags near the 

 chimney, till they pass hazard of mouldiness ; do 

 just so with true saffron: but because fewknowhow 

 to order it, observe to part its off-sets, and plant 

 with other bulbs at half a foot distance in the beds 

 or bordures in July; it flowers in September; then 

 be careful to go through in the mornings, and gather 

 the saffron, viz. the thrums that are in the middle 

 of the flowers: it bears not well till the third, fourth 

 and fifth year, then you must remove it. But to the 

 matter in hand. 



As for the use of these fruits, the physicians know 

 their medicinalls, the cook their ordering in the 



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