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New Principles of Gardening. 
Colour, full of Juice, fharp pointed, and deeply indented to- 
wards the Stalk end, The Stalk rifes about a foot and half 
high, and is hollow within, bearing on its top divers Clufters 
of Flowers, which are fuccceded by a prickly Seed, and is there- 
fore called prickly Spinage. But befides this Kind of Spinage, 
whofe Leaves are deeply indented, there is another Kind cal- 
led round Spinage, on Account of its Leaves being of a round 
Form, without being indented, as in the other. 
3. Their Temperature, 
Spinage is cold and moift, almoft in the fecond Degree. 
4. The Medicinal Virtues. 
Laxative and emollient. 
5. Ihe Parts for Ufe. 
Fhe tender Seed Leaves when eaten in a Sallet, and the 
well grown Leaves when ufed in Soup, Oe. 
6. The Quantity. 
When the young Seed Leaves are eaten in Compofition., 
there muft be the fame Quantity of them as of other {mall Sale 
let Herbs, Radifh excepted. 
Fs The Cultivation. 
Spinage is propagated by Seed, and to. have a plentiful Store 
thereof during the Winter and Spring, we mutt fow the Seed 
about the beginning, middie, and end of Auguft, on good rich 
Land, which when come up, and large enough to hough out, 
muft then be run over with a hough, and left at about five or 
fix Inches apart; and as I before directed its being fown at three 
different Seafons, fo you muft obferve in the Spring alfo, to 
keep fowing fufficient Quantities every Fortnight ; for in the 
Spring ‘tis very rare to find that one Crop will laft longer 
than a Fortnight. 
The prickly Spinage is of the fame Tafte when boil’d as the 
round Leaf, but is not fo much efteem’d by Gardiners. 
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