1^2 The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner. 



to be procured every year from Italy \ 

 and the oftner any Qther kinds are chang- 

 ed;, the better. 



Tliny (in his Natural Hijlory, lib. 20. 

 cap. 9. as aforefaid) gives us a long 

 chapter on the virtues of this plant, and 

 in general, that they are faid to allay 

 fumes, and prevent intoxication, artd our 

 learned and laborious Naturalift com- 

 mends the juice raw, with a little ho- 

 ney. How much in efteem they were 

 amongfl: the antients, who call'd them 

 divine, and ufed to fwcar per brajjicaniy 

 I leave to thofc that are curious in an- 

 tient phylology. 

 of the feed. The feed of all thefe Brajficas fhoujd 

 be faved from the largeft and beft of 

 their kinds 5 and not from thofe that 

 cafually run to feed before their time. 

 The hoUower the cabbages are you fet 

 for feed, or chufe to eat, the better; 

 and thefe fliould be fet into the ground 

 at about three or four foot afundcr, a- 

 bout Michaelmas^ and being cover'd o- 

 ver, to preferve the heads from the froft, 

 you may the next year expeft to have 

 very good feed. The borecole comes 

 oft from Holland, where they eat it raw, 

 with vinegar and oil, and there you may 

 - ' have 



