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opening all obftrudions of the liver, but 

 the curled is the moft delicate, being 

 eaten alone or in compofitions. It is 

 excellent good boil'd, the middle part 

 of the blanched ftalk feparated eats firm, 

 and the larger leaves are by many, and 

 that with good reafon, preferred before 

 lettuce. 



All forts of them agree tolerably well Soil avd 

 with all kinds of foil (as Mr. T>e la'-'^'-"''- 

 ^intinye obferves) but a rich foil a- 

 grees with them the beft, and fuch as is 

 a little light and fandy, as experience 

 teaches 5 and they are fown about the 

 middle of May^ but thinly, that you 

 may have room to come about them to 

 tie them up 5 or they may be planted 

 out in rows under fome good wall, at 

 about eight or ten inches afunderj but 

 of thefe there need not be many, be- 

 caufe their ufes as yet are not fo great 

 as they will be hereafter. 



The main feafons for fowing it is at Seafon, 

 the latter end of June, and during the 

 whole month of July, in order to have 

 fome good for fpending in September^ 

 which is the firft month they are eat 

 with any great guft, being ufed chiefly 

 in foupes, with the firft fellcry that comes 

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