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Sect. XVIII. 1.2. 



LEAVES AND WOOD 



509 



boiled to dlminiOi their acrimony, and to coagulate their m 



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the root-leaves of fpinach, fp 



d even of turnips, braffica rapa ; along 



of cabba 



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braffica 



with thefe ftem-leaves of 



^re eaten, as thofe of 



many plants the flower-buds at their fummits are eaten, 



l^^erc' ry, mercurialis, and of fome of the cabbage k.nd called bro 



coli, braffic 

 Many 



organ, but 

 there exifts 



„..., of thefe leaves not only confift of ^^^fp"^^°^y 

 at the lower parts of them efpecially, or in the.r flalks, _ _ 



a refervl of 'n u t ri n, e n t for the rifing flower-flem or for the r.pen.ng 

 feed as m rhubarb leaves, and in cabbage leaves, which is fim.lar to 

 lat'int'e roots of other herbaceous plants, and which re„ ers them 



both palatable and nutritive 



Moft of thefe concentric leaves are 



fituated in contad with the earth, as thofe of 



la^luca 



d 



falfafi, tragopogon 



But others of thenn 



ftem at fome diftance from the ground 



the cabbages, are placed 

 in the former the up- 



per part of the root or caudex is palatable and nutritious 



well 



the lower part of the leaves 



and fome of them are of fuperior fla 



hen boiled 



In the latter the refe 



of nutriment for the 



: ribs of 



future flower.ftem and feed confifts in the lower part of th 



th 



fol 



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the concentric leaves or lamina, which 



the bulb of th 



or even 



the ftalks,. as in cabba 



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and artichoke, which are therefore not only efculent, but palatable 



and 



Oth 



are eaten 



th 



ly flat 



& 



th the ftem 



wn..u they furround, as afparagus, and the young fhoots of fpinach 

 and of fome kinds of brocoli, and of mercury ; which lafl are Ibme 

 t-les fufFered to (hew their flowers before they come to our tables 

 and are then treated of in Seft. XIX 



The art of 



o 



abundant carbonic earth 



all thefe confifts in fupply 

 d with abundant moift 



jd 



them with 

 s- thefe are 



r:: frLi to the ^'unant growth of -^-leaves or ftem 



the produdion ol-the flow 



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ripening of the feeds, as^ap 



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