The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner, 



cartli d up. And this method alfo ought 

 to be ufcd in cabbage plants. All that 

 I fliall fay further upon this head is, that 

 howing and earthing up often, during 

 the winter feafon, is a great preferver 

 of them againft all froils and cold j as 

 the topping of them, either with the 

 Iheers or ones hand, difpofes them to 

 cod the fooner and better 5 to all which, 

 planting out when they are young con- 

 tributes likewife very much, 



SECT. V. CHAP. XLIV, 

 Of garden feafe, 



THE. garden peafe, by the Latins , 

 pifumj are accounted by fome the 

 moll genuine and whole fome food which 

 the garden produces : Hippocrates and 

 Galen^ antient writers in botany, alTure 

 us they are not fo windy as beans 5 but 

 they do not feem to intimate that they 

 contain much nourilhment in them > 

 however, when young, and gently boil'd, 

 they are now very juftly accounted one 

 of the greateft delic^icies of the garden. 



They are fo called from the Greek 

 \vQrd TTTltro-coy which fignifies their readi- 



3 nefs 



