The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner. 



fpinachia ^ufg. or comniet fpinach, and 

 Jpinachia rotunda, or fpinach with round 

 feeds. Nor do our feed- catalogues pro- 

 duce any new kinds but the round and 

 prickley, which are the fame that the 

 Herbals have left both the icons and de- 

 fcription of. 



Upon a careful infpeftion into fome 

 books of antiquity, I can't find that this 

 ufeful fallet was known to the antients, 

 at leaft by- the name we have it ; for, 

 as Mr. Evelyn tells us, it was not of old 

 ufed in fallets, and the oftner kept out 

 the better (fpeaking of the kind 5 ) but 

 being boil'd to a pulp, and without any 

 other water than its own moifture, is a 

 moft excellent condiment, with butter, 

 vinegar and lemon, for almofl: all forts 

 of boird flefh, and may accompany a 

 fick man's diet. Tis laxative, and e- 

 moUient, and therefore profitable, fays 

 our oft- quoted author of the age, and 

 (tho' by original a Spaniard^ may be had 

 almoft at all feafons, and in all places. 



Spinage is one of thofc kitchen plants 

 that requires the beft ground, or at leaft 

 that which is moft amended by dung. 



It is multiplied only by feed, which, 

 (as has been before obferv'dj is cither 



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