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‘New Principles of Gardening. 
When your Horfe Radifh is become large enough for the 
Table or Market, in taking it up, ‘tis beft to trench the 
Ground back again, obferving to bury its Prunings in the bot- 
tom of Trenches, which. will come up again, and produce a 
new Crop, whofe Roots will be fine and fmooth, free from 
‘Knots, Canker, @c. 
$ 8:0. TT... oXRXIY. 
Of Rampion. 
1. lts Names. 
AMPIONS are called by many, /opecuros, becaufe that 
R the Ear or Spike of Flowers are very like unto Alope- 
curon, or Fox Tail, which is another Herb; and by others it 
has been called Rapunculum <Alopecuron, that it may differ 
from the true and right A/opecuros, or Fox Tail. In Latin 
‘tis called Rapuntium majus, and in Englfh Great Rampion, 
or Garden Rampion. ya 
2. Their Defcription. 
The Leaves of the Garden, or great Rampion, are.tolerably 
large, {mooth and plain, very like unto thofe of the Beet. 
From the Head of the Root fpring up divers Stalks, fet 
with the like Leaves, but decreafing in their Magnitude, as they 
approach the top. The Flowers are produced at the top of 
the Stalks in a thick Clufter, like unto an Ear of Wheat in 
Form ; and before they are open’d they appear like fmall crooked 
Horns, after which, when full blown, they are like {mall 
Bells (which makes me believe them to be of the Bell Flower 
Tribe) being fometimes purple, and at other times white. 
3. Their Temperature. 
The Roots are of acold Temperature and fomething binding. 
4. Their Medicinal Virtues. 
*Tis reported by many, that the Decoétion of the Roots are 
good for all Inflammations of the Mouth, and Almonds of 
‘the Throat, ec. and is a very great Nourifher. tf The 
