New Principles of Gardening. 
| 4. Their Medicinal Virtues. 
The tender Sprouts or. Tops being boiled, and eaten as 
Afparagus, cleanfe the Blood, provoke Urine, and comfort 
the Entrails. 
5. The Parts for Ufe, 
Are the young Shoots or Tops gathered in March and April, 
when they firft come up, and about eight Inches in height 
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6. The Quantity to be eaten is at Pleafure. 
7. Their Calculation. | 
The Hops from which the young Shoots are gathered, are 
generally from thofe that grow wild in Hedges, and do natu- 
tally love a very rich fat Soil. To lay down proper Direc- 
tions (in this Place) for the Propagation of Hops, for the 
fake of their Flowers only, would be a Subje& very foreign 
to our purpofe, therefore I fhall omit that for the prefent, and 
purfue our other Sallet Herbs, as they come in order. 
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Of Lettuce. 
pre 1. Its Names. 7 
ABBAGE LETTUCE is commonly called Laétuca capi- 
C tata, and Lattuca fefilis. Purny calls it, Lattuca La- 
conica : Columella, Lattuca Betica : Petrus Crefcentius, Lac- 
tuca Romana, and in Englifh Cabbage Lettuce. 
~~ But befides this common Cabbage Lettuce, there are many 
others which cabbage very well, as the Capafcen Lettuce, 
the Brown Dutch Lettuce, the Roman Lettuce, the Lmperial 
Lettuce, and the Sélefa Lettuce: To which I may add divers 
French, and Gofs Lettuces which are extreme good, and cab- 
bage very well with a very fmall Afliftance of the Gardiner in 
tying them clofe up. ’ 
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