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that it is not altogether fo very excel- 

 lent 5 they eafily pafs the winter in the 

 ground 5 that it is good to water both 

 kinds in very dry weather, and to keep 

 them well weeded 5 and efpecially to 

 put them in good earth well prepared, 

 of full two foot deep at leaft : All thefe 

 diredions we have obferved, but find 

 that by keeping them in the ground all 

 the winter, they are apt to grow a little 

 fticky in the fpring ; wherefore it may 

 be better to take them up fome time in 

 OSiober or November:, and keep them in 

 fand, a3 you do other culinary roots. 



SECT. IV. CHAP. XXXVIIL 

 Of the turnep. 



'HE turnep, rapunij altho' it is fb 



\ common, and fo well known a 

 root, muft not be omitted in this ac- 

 count of kitchen vegetables, as it docs 

 indeed furnilh it in as confpicuous a 

 manner as any other herb or root yet 

 named. 



The skill'd in botany remark, thzt Derhati- 

 the turnep is call'd by the Latins/"^' 



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