The TraBical Kitchen Gardinet. 



SECT. III. CHAP. XXI. 



Of herbacious and fibrous -rootled kitchen 

 plants. 



IT will not, I prefume, be to my pur- 

 pofe to wafte much time on the ety- 

 mology from which this fcdion has its 

 denomination 5 nor on tiie opinions of 

 thofe who feem to criticife fo nicely 

 on the word, and diftinguifh the olla 

 herbs (which are never eaten raw) from 

 the acetaria, which are never boil'd > 

 inferring from thence, that the original 

 of the fir ft is okiSy from olluy a pot ; or 

 whether it be deduced from 'oAc$-, com- 

 prehending the univerfal genus of the 

 vegetable kingdom i or that it has its 

 derivation ab olendo, or rather, ab alendoy 

 the one fignifying the nature of its growth, 

 and the other its general ufes and proper- 

 ties, as having been the original and ge- 

 nuine food of mankind from the crea- 

 tion 5 fince this would lead me too far 

 from the praftice I here propofe to lay 

 before my readers ; for which reafon I 

 lhall leave it to the cumini fe^fores and 

 iiTipertinently curiouS;, and proceed to 



what 



