The Tragical Kitchen Gardinerl 



A curious gentleman who has been 

 abroad, recommends a very fine kind 

 of fennel that grows in the gardens at 

 Naples J that has a higher taftc and more 

 fliort than either the feliery or alifan- 

 derSy and not quite fo aromatick and 

 fweet a tafte as tlie fweet fennel 5 in 

 fhort, the account given of it will, I 

 think, fufficiently recommend it to the 

 curious to endeavour to propagate it. 



This ingenious gentleman affures mc 

 he has tried it in Englandy from feeds 

 brought over along with him, and all 

 the fault he can find is, that it is very 

 apt to run to feed, but the often tranf- 

 planting and keeping it well watered, 

 may, in all probability, obviate fuch a 

 misfortune in this, as well as it hath done 

 in other herbs of the fame nature. 



SECT. VI. CHAP. XLIX. 

 Of the garden fuccory^ endive y &c. 



THO* fuccory and endive might 

 well have been deferred in this 

 account till we had arrived to the fixth 

 fedion or clafs, which treats of fallet- 

 ings, it being one of the beft that is 



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