The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner. 



by ofF-fets or flips. And thus much 

 concerning forrel. 



I {hall now finifh this fedion with 

 the artichoke and afparagus, that with 

 fo much honour bring up the rear of 

 boil'd fallets. 



• SECT. III. CHAP. XXX. 

 Of the articheaux, or artichoke. 



TH E artichoke of the Englijh, or 

 articheaux of the French, which 

 was in former times calFd Cynara, might 

 have very juftly maintained a priority in 

 this feftion, but that I have referv'd this 

 and the afparagus to ciofe the ranks, 

 and bring up the rear of all boil'd fal- 

 lets. 



The antients have a fable, by which 

 they would make us believe that arti- 

 cheaux, the Cynara of thofe times, had 

 its original appellation from Cynara, a 

 certain virgin, who was metamorphosed 

 out of her own fhape into this ufeful 

 plant: But others, better skill'd in bo- 

 tanology, fay it had its derivation a ci- 

 mere (from a^es) which makes them flou- 

 lifli very well j or rather, that it is fo 



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