New Principles of Gardening. 
The fir! Motive that moved me to this Experiment, was . 
from the prodigious great Care and Exaétnefs obferved by my 
Father Mr. Daniel Langley, Gardener at Twickenham, in his an- 
nual Choice of the beft Carrots, from which he yearly raifes 
great Quantities of Seed, and furnifhes many at very reafonable 
Rates. 
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Of Chervill. 
1. Its Names. 
Olumella calls Chervill. Cherephyllum, in Latin ’tis called, 
Cerefolium, in High Dutch Korffeskraut, in Low Dutch 
Kervell, in Italian Cerefoglo, in French ‘Du Cerfueil, and in 
Englifh Chervell or Chervil. 
2. lts Defcription. : 
The Leaves of Chervil are flender, and very beautifully in- 
dented, being fomething hairy and of a light green when young, 
but tending toa red when its Seeds arenearripe. The Stalk fel- 
dom rifes above one Foot, or thereabouts in height, and is 
very flender, at, whofe ends are {mall Tufts, which produce 
white Flowers, that are fucceeded by its Seed, of a long flender 
fharp pointed Form. 
And befides this Kind of Chervil cultivated in Gardens for 
Sallets, there is another Kind, called the great Chervil, ot 
Myrrhe, and in Latin Cerefolium magnum, whote Leaves are 
deeply indented like unto Hemlock, but-of a very pleafant Smelt 
and Tafte, and by many called {weet Chervil, 
3. Its Temperature. 
The Temperature of Chervil is temperately hot and mode- 
rately dry. 
| 4. Its Medicinal Virtues. 
The Nature of Cheryil is fuch, that if *tis boiled in Wine, 
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