The TraEiical Kitchen Gardiner, 26$ 



hand-glaffes, or frames of glaffes before 

 them to ripen the feed the better, and 

 as foon as it is ripe, which may be feeu 

 by the downy cottony matter that is on 

 the tops of the feeds, then the whole 

 ftalk Ihould be laid carefully in fome 

 green-houfe, and well dry'd, till it be 

 fit to threfh or beat out, which it will 

 foon be. 



Lettuce is that mod ufcful manna o^ofthefen^ 

 our beft gardens (as Mr. 2)^ la ^inti- f'^^^^ 

 nye terms it) and of which all the world J^^^^'-^^J^ 

 is fo fond 5 it requires many and diffe- raifmgiet- 

 rent feafons of fowing, thofe which are 

 good in fome months of the year not 

 being fo in others 5 fome that grow well 

 ^in fpring, thriving not fo well in the 

 fummer 5 and thofe which profper in 

 autumn and winter, coming to nothing 

 neither in the fpring nor fummer 5 fome 

 that pome and cabbage of their own ac- 

 cord, and others that muft be tied up 

 to make them clofe and white, as the 

 cofs or gofs lettuce, the Silefiay Ro- 

 many &c. 



Now tho* there are many kinds ofo/ the 

 lettuce, as has been before fet <^^wn, ^^^^^^^ 

 yet there are not above fix or eight kinds ^fttiiceu 

 I would recommend to any fmall garden, 



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