264 The TraBlcdl Kitchen Gardiner, 



by the antients, by way of eminence, 

 called fana. 



And the mofl excellent and abftemi- 

 ous Emperor Tacitus, fpending almoft 

 nothing at his frugal table in other dain- 

 ties) was yet fo great a friend to lettuce, 

 that he would often fay, when he had 

 cat thereof, and refted well, that he 

 procured his fleep at a great price ^ and 

 AriJioxenuSj as an oft quoted author in- 

 forms us, ufed to water his lettuce beds 

 with water and honey mix'd. But to 

 the feed, culture, (^c. 

 Of lettuce. It is bcft to havc lettuce feeds frefh 

 ^^/j^^^^^^ every year from foreign countries, be- 

 caufe it is fuller and better feed, and 

 produces much finer lettuce than what 

 has been faved often with usj however, 

 in good years we fave it plentifully e- 

 nough 5 all which is too well known for 

 me to enlarge or infill upon 5 I need 

 only mention that the feed fhoud be 

 faved only from the largeft and beft of 

 the lettuce heads, and fuch as are the 

 clofeft and beft of their kinds, and which 

 have been tranfplanted and flood all the 

 winter 5 for then the feed has time to 

 ripen well, and in order to make it the 

 more perfect, it is well to fet fome 

 2 hand- 



