T^he TraBical Kitchen Gardiner, 



thus much concerning melons, the me- 

 thod of raifing, perfedion, i^'C. 



SECT. 11. CHAP. XIIL 

 Of the cucumbers, 



'T^HE cucumber is the next to be 



^ treated of, being the firft of the 

 three kinds^ Bauhinus has reduced to this 

 head 5 tho' indeed much inferior to the 

 foregoing, both in beauty and good- 

 > nefs. 



This kind of fruit was in fo much e- 

 ileem in Tlinfs time, that he beftow'd 

 X whole chapter in his Natural Hijlory^ 

 on this and fome other kinds he joins 

 to it, and tells us, in the account he 

 gives, of the great virtues of the feeds 

 being fteep*d in wine, for thofe that are 

 afflicted with coughs, and for nephritic 

 and dyfenterial difeafes in women. The 

 encomiums that Tliny has given, and the 

 care that has been taken of them, caused 

 many to behave that what the antients 

 caird cucumbers, was in reality our me- 

 lons, as has been already noted. 



* Vid. Bmhinus in FiMce, lilr, 10. cap. 4. ut antea- 



The 



