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^he TraEtkal Kitchen Gardiner, 



SECT. IV. CHAP. XL. 



Of the skirret. 



H E skirret, fifartm, (fays Mr, Eve- 



lyn) is hot and moift, corrobo- 

 rating and good for the ftomach, ex- 

 ceeding nourifhing, wholefome and deli- 

 cate, and of all the root-kind not fub- 

 jeft to be windy, and fo valued by the 

 Emperor Tiberiu.fy that he accepted them 

 for a tribute, and to be conveyed to him 

 yearly from Galduba caftle on the Rhine y 

 as Tlinjfy {lib. i6. cap. 5.) and others re- 

 port. 



Etymologifts don't tell us why it is fo 

 caird, tho' it is a root that Tliny and 

 moft of the antients have made mention 

 of 5 neither has time or experience 

 brought any other to our knowledge 

 but the one kind mentioned by Gerard^ 

 p. 1026. and by Tarkinfon, p. 945- under 

 the name of Jifaruniy or Jijarum vulgarCy 

 common skirrets. 



If the fifer of 7Uny be the Jifarum 

 "/here mentioned, as it feems to be, it 

 has, according to that author, all the 

 good qualities that can polTibly be found 



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