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tain i whilft herbs cool and alky the in* 

 flammations of the ftomach and blood, 

 ftrengthen and corroborate the brain, and 

 are of the utmoft ufe in all difeafes, whe- 

 ther chronical or acquired. 



To all this may be added, what is juft 

 hinted at in the preliminary pages of this 

 Treatife, the delightful profped of a 

 kitchen garden in the fpring (as Mr. De la 

 §}uintinje paints it) when almoft all the 

 earth is covered over with a new decora- 

 tion of infant plants \ here we fee arti- 

 chokes rifing as it were from the dead; 

 and there afparagus piercing the ground in 

 a thouGmd places; here we fliould with 

 pleafure obferve cabbage lettuces wind 

 themfelves up into round balls ; and there 

 multitudes of legumes and green herbs, fo 

 different in colour, and (b various in their 

 (hape, that a contemplative man can't but 

 ftand ftill with wonder and amazement; 

 thefei thefe! are the innocent and natu- 

 ral dainties, where they prefent themfelves 

 and grow for the nourifliment and delicious 

 entertainment of human kind. 



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