SECT. XV. 



OP ESCULENTS. 



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ing them to our ufe, by an unneceffary preference to 

 other foods. 44 There was a time, when bread and 

 herbs (with a little fruit) were the only dainties 

 wherewith the tables of the greateft voluptaaries were 

 fpread." 



44 Vegetables and fruits were our innocent, primi- 

 tive, and natural food ; but men's depraved appetites 

 have fubflituted the lhambles ; yet, after all, the inven- 

 tions of the moft luxurious and voluptuous epicure > the 

 moil Ccejarian tables would want of their magnificence, 

 noble guft, and grateful relifh, without fruit and the 

 productions of the garden, which gives the true con- 

 diment, and moft agreeable clofure to all the reft." 



44 Their ufe is, all our life long, of that univerfal 

 importance and concern, that we can neither live nor 

 fubfift in any plenty, with decency or convenience, or 

 be faid to live at all without them: whatfoever contri- 

 butes to delight or refrefh us, are fupplied and brought 

 forth out of this plentiful and delightful (lore of the 

 garden . ' ' 



Let it be a rule to gather vegetables of all kinds 

 (defigned for the table) in the morning, before much 

 fun has ihined on them, and lay them by in a cool place 

 till wanted. 



Alexander is a culinary plant, formerly much 

 ufed, but has given way to celery; like which it is 

 blanched (about a foot high) for ufe in foups and fallads. 

 The feeds are beft fown in drills two feet afunder, 

 and thinned to fix or eight inches diftance, though they 

 may be fown at broad caft and tranfplanted. Spring 

 fown plants come in for autumn, and autumn ones for 

 the ufe ot fpring. 



Artichoke, there are two kinds of, the globe and 

 the conical. The latter is the hardieft, but the former 

 is generally preferred, both for fize and flavour. Arti- 

 chokes are propagated from rooted flips, or offsets in 



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