142 The ^raBical Kitchen Gardiner. 



larly, in that I find both our Englijh 

 cooks and gardiners too, negled and 

 fet little value upon them. 



It is better known and pradifed a- 

 mongft them, that the root of the red 

 beet fliced crofways makes a handfome 

 ornament in raw fallets, and are ufed 

 much by French and Italian cooks and 

 gardiners ; the natives of which coun- 

 tries, as well as the T^utch^ eat them as 

 they do nioft other roots, raw, with oil, 

 vinegar and pepper ; however difagree- 

 able they are to Englijh palates. But of 

 this more when we come to treat of 

 cfculents. 



SECT. III. CHAP. XXVIL 

 Of Spinach y or Spinage. 



SPinage is another excellent boiFd fal- 

 let, that has for fome time fufnifh'd 

 the tables of the curious. 



It is fo caird, fay the * botanifts, from 

 the hardnefs and pricklinefs of its feeds. 

 Our Herbals mention two kinds, *viz, 



* Spinachia iic dicla ob femina dura Sc fpinofa. C^f- 

 Hon. Botan. Ox on. p. 173. 



fpinachia 



