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e Is placed 

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Jfoasto 



flead of in 

 ter decree 

 e the heat 

 table mu- 



well 



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as 



jercd pro- 



cabba^s 







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 matter, 



them 



bfp 



alate; 



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111 



3 



hk:b 



is 



Sect.^IX. 4 



OF 



FLOWERS 



547 



and to the 



is owing to the evaporatiou of a part of the marine acid, 



remaining alkali, which was the bafis of it, when applied to blu.lh 



a 



etables converting them 



o;reeii, as 



o 



ill th 



common experi 



ment of adding fait of tartar to fyrup of violets ; or, according 



the cuftom of fome cooks, who add a little potaOi 



fixed 



getable alkali, to the water, in which 

 ^ake them green, and afterwards a v 



them 



young peas are boiled to 



y 



little fug 



to fweet 



The fame efTea of making vegetables green, when boiled 



\ 



kinds of hard waters, is 



probably produced by th 



ime, which 



abounds in them ; and which like the vegetable ^alkali when th 



aerial acid, which was 



nited with it evaporate 



faid 



bluifh vegetable colours into g 



The nutritious mucilage refides likewife in the young ftems of 



mercury 

 to open. 



which (hould therefore be eaten before the flower beg 



ood brocoli, if 



The ftalks and immature flowers of fea-cale are fimil 



prefer 



youn 



though many gardeners 



th 



blanching them, which fuppl 

 fcribed in Seft. XIV. 3. 3- A^P 



ly and 

 3 does 



agreeable repafl:, de- 

 not perhaps properly 



belon- to this feaion, as the ftem is eaten, before the flower becomes 



fible 



2. 



The cultivation of brocol 



1 



d cauliflower muft be very fimi 



except as to the feafons of the year 



they are varieties of th 



fame fpec'ies of plarit of the cabbage family. The following direc 



Efq 



for the cultivation of brocoli Were fent me by Edward Tigh 



man of Ireland, along with an elegant Lat 



poem on the fame fubjea, a free tranflation of which is placed 



^ 



end of this {zQi 



Brocoli may be fo managed as to fupply 



table with a deli 



•. De 



d falutary vegetable during the months of Novembe 

 cember, January, February, March, April, and May. 



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