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New Principles of Gardening. 
~ 1. The Names. 
Cucumbers, are called in Latin Cucumis fativus or Garden 
Cucumber, in Italjan Concomero, in Spanifh Cogombro, in High 
Dutch Cucumern, in Low Dutch Coucommeren, and in Eng- 
lifh Cucumber, and vulgatly Coweumber. 
2. Their Defcription. 
Altho’ there be divers Kinds of Cucumbers, as the long and 
fhort prickly Cucumber, the long and fhort {mooth Cucumber, 
the white Cucumber, the Turky Cucumber, the Adders Cu- 
cumber, Pear fafhion Cucumber, Spanifo Cucumber, wild Cu- 
cumber, @vc. yet I cannot-recommend any but the long and 
fhort prickly, the fmooth and Turky- Cucumbers, which in 
general are well known, and therefore need no Defcription. 
3, Their Temperature. 
All Sorts of Cucumbers are temperately cold and moift in 
the fecond Degree. : 
4. Their medicinal Virtues. 
Cucumbers in general are foon putrified in the Stomach, 
but do not. much. nourifh the Body, and what is, (as before) is 
cold and moift, and therefore not good. Being eaten raw 
with Oyl, Pepper, Salt and Vinegar provokes Urine, fharpens 
the Appetite, opens and cools the Liver, and helps the Cheft and. 
Lungs that are inflamed. 
5. The Parts for Ufe. 
When Cucumbers are very young and pickled, ’tis ufual to 
eat the out-fide Rind of the Fruit with them; but when they 
are largely’ grown, as fit for flicing; to be either fried, ftew'd 
or caten raw, they are generally pared, and then ufed. “Tisa 
very great Cuftom amongfta great many People to make choice 
of the very largeft Cucumbers, believing them to be the beft, 
which are not, but inftead thereof, are the very worlft, except 
fuch asare quite yellow. Therefore in the Choice of Cucum- 
bers, lrecommend thofe that are about three Parts grown, Or 
hardly fo much, before thofe very large ones, whofe Seed are 
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