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what is of more general ufe, the diflinc- 

 tion of their fpecies arid properties, me- 

 thod of raifing, governing, and the like; 

 beginning firft with tiiofe that meet with 

 the 2:reatefl: efteem at the tables of the 

 moft curious. 



SECT. III. CHAP. XXII. 



Of the colly flower y cabbage ^ borecole^ 

 boccoH:, &c. 



BRaJ/ica, the cabbage, a difh (as it is 

 faid) fo entirely beloved by Tom- 

 pey, and fo highly celebrated by Cato 

 and TythagoraSy but rnore efpecially by 

 ^iofcorides and Chryflppus the phyficians, 

 that the latter is reported by Tliny to 

 have privately wrote a volume in its 

 praifes, and on account of the benefits 

 it afforded to human bodies 5 the fame 

 author telling us, and in the fame place, 

 that the antient Greeks divided the Braf- 

 fica into three diftind fpecies j 'viz, the 

 firft, crifpa, with curl'd or fhort leaves, 

 and but few ftalks 5 the fecond, leay the 

 leaves growing on long ftalks, for which 

 it was call'd cauleda, perhaps our cole- 

 WOi;ts 5 and the other, crambe^, with fmal- 

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