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New Principles of Gardening. 
6. The Quantity. 
This Herb being well mixt in a Sallet, gives it a very agree- 
able Relifh, altho’ fome cannot endure any part of it in a Sallet. 
When a Sallet is compofed of fix or feven Sorts of Herbs, and 
of each a Pugil, to them may be added about twenty five large 
Leaves of Tarragon, and the like of a Sallet of any other 
Size. 
7. The Cultivation. 
This Herb delights in a warm Expofure, and is increafed by 
Slips taken from the Roots, and planted any time in the Spring. 
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S E.C 2. iL, 
Of Turnips. 
1. Its Names. 
HE Turnip is called in Greek yoyyiay, in Latin Rapum, 
and by fome Rapa. The Lacedemonians call it yasne, in 
High Dutch Ruben,in Low Dutch Rapen, in French Naueaurond, 
in Spanifo Nabo, and in Englifh Turnip and Rape. 
2. Their Defcription. 
To defcribe the feveral parts of a Turnip, which is already 
well known, would be a neediefs work, and therefore I fhall 
pafs over the fame in Silence, and only add, that the very beft 
Kinds are the yellow and flat white Turnip, red on the upper 
part, and of thefe the beft are thofe of a midling Growth; the 
very large ones being, for the moft part, either fticky and hard, 
or woolly and foft like unto the Pith of an Elder Tree. 
3. Their Temperature. 
Windy and moift. 
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