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New Princples of Gardening. 
6. The Proportion or Quantity that fhould be eaten ina Sallet, 
is an equal Quantity, wiz. if the Sallet i$ compofed of three 
- Kinds of Herbs, there muft be of Brooklime one third part ; if 
of four Kinds, one fourth; if of five Kinds, one fifth, dc. 
7. Its Cultivation. 
This Herb delighting to grow by. Rivers Sides, purling 
Streams, Brooks, gc. is there found in great Plenty, and there- 
fore its Cultivation in Gardens is not regarded. 
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Of Cabbages, Savoys, &c. 
‘ Ltho’ Cabbages, Savoys and Colly-flowers are now fo cal- 
led and diftinguifhed from what is generally called Cole- 
worts, yet they are all of the Colewort Race,as doth appear by their 
Latin Names. The Garden Colewort is called in Latin Braf- 
fica vulgaris fativa; the white Cabbage, Braffica Capitata alba. 
the red Cabbage Braffica Capitata rubra; the Savoy Braffica 
Sabauda; the Colly-flower, Braffica Florida, being no more 
than clofe growing (or headed) Coleworts, and-the like of all 
others of the Cole Tribe. ; 
2. Their Defcription.- 
To make an Attempt of informing Mankind what a Cab- 
bage, Savoy or Colly-flower is, would be both a ridiculous and 
fimple Thing, feeing that every Perfon living are perfectly ac- 
quainted therewith; and therefore. I will, inftead thereof, men- 
tion fuch Kinds as are worth our Notice. ~ 
The beft Kinds of Cabbages are thofe which, tho’ firm, clofe, 
and very large, yet are very light, as the true Sugar-loaf, the 
eatly white Batterfea, and the French Cabbage; and of Sayoys 
the fame. But ofall the feveral Kinds, the curdled Savoy, yel- 
low in the middle, environed with deep green curdled Leaves, 
is, of all others, the moft beautiful, fweeteft, and defpifes the 
Severity of our Winters Frofts, which the other Kinds will 
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