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New Principles of Gardening. 
0 J Temperature. 
- Rocket is hot and dry in the thitd Degree, therefore Galen 
advifes it not to be eaten alone, being rather too hot for 
the Stomach. 
4. The Medicinal Virtues. 
_ Being eaten in Compofition with other Sallet Herbs that are 
cold, .as Lettuce, Purflane,. ¢yc. is very wholefome for the 
Stomach, and provokes Usine, . but .when eaten.alone, caufeth 
the Head-ach. ; 
; s» The Parts for Ufe, 
Are the young and.tender Leaves. 
6. The Quantity. | 
If the Sallet is compofed of cooling Herbs, as before obferved, 
there may be one Pugil, or equal Quantity of Rocket. 
ees . 7. Its Cultivation. 
The Seed is ripe in September, and fhould then be fown; 
it delights in a warm rich Soil, and is very hardy, efpecially 
the Roman Rocket, which is an Annual, and dying every 
Year, as foon as its Seed is ripe, rifes again from its own Seed, — 
if fuffer’d to fall. 
9: Es h sce Vi. 
| Of Red Sage. 
1. Its Names. 
S‘ GE is called in Greek tAcAicQanes, in Latin, Italian and 
Spanifo Salvia, in High Dutch Salben, in French Sauge , 
in Low Dutch Sauie ; and in Englifh Sage. | 
2. Its Defcription. 
To defcribe red Sage, which is fo well known, would benced- 
lefs, and therefore | fhail only add, that the Flowers are in 
blaom in the Months of Fume and Fuly, 3. Its 
