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panmnica latif^ or common Sfmnifh vi- 

 pers grafs 3 the other kind is Scarzonera 

 humilis Utifolia^ dwarf vipers graft \ 

 whether the other kind that goes by the 

 title of Scorzonera Hifpanica^ be the 

 fame or another kind than that before- 

 mentioned, is to me unknown. 



Monf. T^e la ^intinye gives an ac- 0/ tie- 

 count of two kinds, which were in his 

 time cultivated in France^ under the 

 names of Scorzonera and faffify ; it is 

 (as that curious obferver of vegetables 

 affures us) admirable good, both for the 

 pleafure of the tafte, and the health of 

 the body, (food) being either boii'd v/ith 

 chicken, with afparagus, fliced and fried 

 in pancakes, or baked in pies amongft 

 other meat, affording a very excellent 

 nourifhment, the laft not much unlike 

 the bottom of an artichoke, far beyond 

 any root that the garden affords. 



It is rais'd not only by feed fow'd in Propngn^ 

 March, when carrots and other feeds'"'? ''^''^ 



culture, 



are fown, but in beds by it felf 5 it muft 

 be fown pretty thin, or weeded and 

 howed, in order to give room for the 

 root to enlarge it felf ; but fix or eight 

 inches will be diftance enough, the root 

 not being fubiecl to wax big 5 it is good 

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