The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner. 



many other things of this kind, being 

 too well known for me to enlarge up^ 

 on. 



SECT. IV. CHAP. XXXVI. 

 Of the radifl). 



TH E radifii, raphanuSy is the next 

 efculent I fhall produce under 

 this fedion, being fo ufeful in the 

 kitchen, that Mr. ^e la §iutntinye fays 

 of them, when they are tender, and 

 fnap eafily, and are fweet, they are one 

 of the plants that gives the moft plea- 

 fure of any in the kitchen garden ; and 

 which, for their long and general ufe, 

 he looks upon as a kind of manna, alf 

 belt (as Mr. Evelyn fays) rather medici- 

 nal than fo commendably good, accom- 

 panying fallets (wherein we often flicc 

 the larger roots) and fo are not of fo 

 great a ufe as the younger leaves in raw 

 fallets, whilft I may add, the old leaves 

 are good to boiL Certain it is, the ra- 

 difh, almoft all the year, affords a very 

 grateful mordacity, and fufficiently tem- 

 pers all cooler ingredients, whether 

 boil'd or raw, tho' much propercr for 

 I the 



