The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner. 



SECT. IL CHAP. XV. 



Of the feed of cucumbers ^ its age, fro- 

 pertiesy 6cc. 



IT muft be obferved (as to the feed) 

 that that of cucumbers will not laft 

 fo long as melon feed will 5 cucumbers 

 of the fecond, at moft of the third 

 year, being the propereft for a crop of 

 any. And fome there are that efteem 

 feed of the firfl: year beyond any of 

 them. It has been a queftion in debate 

 amongft the curious, whether the ftecp- 

 ing of melon and cucumber feed in 

 milk, liquid honey, or other fweet wa- 

 ters, does really add to the goodnefs of 

 their tafte, or no. 



And Scaltgery in his notes on Theo- 

 phrafttiSy lib.z. cap. 18. affirms it does. 

 Cucumeriim fervid la5ie aut melicrato 

 fr£macerariy quo fiant fruBus dulciores. 

 But our moderns, amongft which is 

 Mr. CollinSy denies it has any fuch ef- 

 fcd. But every body agrees, that in cafe 

 the owner and planter is behind-hand 

 in his work, that it adds to the quick- 

 nefs of its growth, for which reafon 



