New Principles of Gardening. 
| 3. Their Temperature. 
Moderately cold, moift and acid. 
4, The Medicinal Virtues. 
Cools a hot Stomach, creates an Appetite, opens the Ob- 
ftrutions of the Liver, and affwages the Heat thereof, * cuts 
tough Humours, and ftrengthens the Heart. - 
s. The Parts for Ufe. 
The tender young Leaves. 
6. The Quantity in a Sallet. 
The Quantity of Sorrel in a Sallet is generally at Pleafure; 
fome loving a greater Quantity of acid than others: But the 
ufual Quantity is an equal part, proportionable to the other Sorts 
of Herbs, as a fourth part, when the Sallet is compofed of 
four Kinds of Herbs; a fifth, when of five, dre. 
7. Its Cultivation. 
The Garden and French Sorrels are propagated from Seeds 
fown in March in Drills on the edge of a Borde. : and thake a 
very handfome and profitable Edging. 
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Of Spinach, or Spinage. 
. Its Names. 
YPINAGE was ancient called Spinachia, and Spinachium 
olus., , and by fome.Hifpanicum olus. Fuchfius calls it 
Smwaggle § ; the Arabians and. Serapio call it Hi/pane, the Ger- 
mans Spinet, the French Efpinas, and the Englifh Spinach, 
or Spinage. 
2. Its Defeription. 
It is fuppofed by many Herbaliffs that Spinach is a Sort of 
Orach ; the Leaves being foft and tender, of a dark green 
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