New Principles of Gardening. 
4. Their Medicinal Virtues. 
Garden and Water Creffes being eaten raw in Sallets, are 
very good againft the Scurvy, and are very loofening and re- 
frefhing. 
5. The Parts for Ufe. 
Of Garden Creffes, the Seed Leaves; and the next to them— 
Of Water Creffes, their tender Leaves and Shoots. 
‘4 6. Their Proportion in Sallets. 
The Quantity of each in a Sallet, where are many other 
Herbs that are cold and moift, as Cucumbers, Lettuce, de. 
is of each three Times the Quantity of any other Kind of 
Sallet Herb ufed therein. Bris 
7. Their Cultivation. 
Garden Creffes muft be fown on gentle Hot-Beds, during 
the Months of Fanuary, February, and the firft Fortnight in 
March, as direéted for Chervil, after which they may be fown 
in the natural Ground under a South Wall, cc. 
The Water Creffes are beft in March, when they firft ap- 
pear, and as they delight in gravelly Springs, running Brooks, 
@vc. are never cultivated in the Garden. — ios ? 
SE Gti av. 
Of Cucumbers. 
N Confideration that many ingenious Gardiners raife early 
Cucumbers, and oftentimes cut Fruit for the Table in 
March, and fometimes in February, I have therefore plac’d 
them amongft the firft Salleting, notwithftanding that I cannot 
recommend their being eaten fo very foon as February or March, 
they being much too cold for the Weather of thofe Months. 
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