The TraEiical Kitchen Gardiner. i z i 



the BaUerfea and Ruffia cabbage, both 

 fmall and early, and the ^uUh, being 

 the flatteft and the largeft of all, and a 

 very hard and flat cabbage it is, fit on- 

 ly for the lafl: table in large families. 

 To thefe may be added, the BraJJica flo- 

 ridUy or collyflower before-mentioned, 

 the Savoy, the borecole, being both 

 great, and red, and curFd on the edges, 

 and, above all, the broccoli from Naples 

 or Venice^ from whence we have the 

 feed tranfported to us every year 5 per- 

 haps the Halmerida of 7 liny y fo much 

 magnified, and now in the greateft e- 

 fteem and repute of any of the fea-kele^ 

 or crambe kind. 



Some phyficians decry the c^hh^^c The proprl 

 and colewort, as affording but crafs and 

 melancholy juice , loofning if but mo- 

 derately boird, if over-much aftringent, 

 according no Celfus ^ and therefore fel- 

 dom eat raw, but by the T^utchy who 

 drink large quantities of geneva and o- 

 thcr hot liquors, to palliate its cold qua- 

 lity. The beft feed (fays our oft-men- 

 tion'd author) comes from T>enmarky 

 RuJJtay or from Aleppo y but now we 

 have feed enough railed annually of our 

 own, except the broccoli, which is beft 



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