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New Principles of Gardening, 
To makeaDefcription of the feveral Sorts of Lettuce is need- 
Jefs, in regard to their being fo well known to every Perfon. 
2. Their Temperature. 
All Kinds of Lettuce are moderately cold and moift. 
3. Their Medicinal Vertues. 
This Sallet being eaten raw, allays Heat, Choler, Thirft, ex- 
cites Appetite, and reprefles Vapours ; and when boiled and 
eaten in Soup, or (as Spinach ) with Meat, makes the Body 
loofe and open. 
4. The Parts for Ufe, 
Are the young Lop Lettuces fown on gentle Hot Beds, as 
before dircéted for Chervil, Sect. viii. and Creffes, Sect. xiv. 
or fuch Lettuces as have endured the Winter, which were 
fown the Auguft before. 
5. The Quantity in a Sallet. 
Of whatever Number and Kinds of Herbs the Sallet is com- 
pofed of, the Quantity of Lettuce ought to be equal to one 
of thofe Parts, viz. If compofed of three Kinds, to be ong 
third part, if of four Kinds, one fourth, ee. 
6. The Cultivation. 
The beft Sort of Lettuce, for the Service of thefe three 
Months, is the Brown Dutch Lettuce, which if fown in Au- 
gut, may be tranfplanted out in September for good, and is beft 
whenina light rich Loam, under a South Wall. And for fmail 
Lettuce in Salleting, the Lop Lettuce fown on a Hot Bed, as be- 
fore direétcd, is as good as any other Kind. § 9) s ee 
To have Lettuces cabbaged very carly in the Spring obferve 
the following Dirc@tions, viz. About the middle or end of 
Auguft Sow Brown Dutch, Imperial and Silefia Lettuce in 
the Border of a South Wall, which will be fit to tran{plant out 
for good about a Month or five Weeks after fowing, provided 
that you kecp them moift by Refrefhings of Water given im 
a Morning, if the Seafon is very dry. pe 
N. B. That the Reafon why I advife their, being waterd 
in a Morning is, in regard to the Coldnefs of the Nights Aa 
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