The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner, 



may be done by cabbages, juft as they 

 are poming or cabbaging. 



The hanging collyflowcrs with their 

 heads downwards, in a cellar or green- 

 hoiife, is likewife a method pradis'd by 

 feveral ingenious gentlemen. 



SECT. III. CHAT. XXVL 

 Of the beet. 



HE beet herb, very eaiy to be 



1 rais*d, well deferves the care and 

 cultivation of the laborious gardiner, be- 

 ing, in my opinion, one oi the ufeful- 

 Icll and bcft fallets boil'd that we have 

 in the fpring, as not partaking of that 

 toughneis or bittcrnefs that cabbage, cole- 

 vv^ort, and other boil'd fallets at that 

 time of the year do. 



Thofe that arc skiird in botanical ety- 

 mology, tell us, that the beet has its 

 name from the Greek letter /3 in the al- 

 phabet, or rather from fome words out 

 of that language, v/hich lignifies its ufe 

 and promptitude to be propagated > 

 Tltny (in his XIX^^ book, caf, 8.) takes 



notice 



