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to eat at leaft as any of the common 

 cabbage lettuces 5 but the feed, as yet, 

 I have not had the good luck to fave. 

 There is alfo a little round lettuce, the 

 fame in all probability that the French 

 call the mignion lettuce, which is a 

 wonderful lettuce to cabbage, and lies 

 low, fnug, and in a little room, and 

 fo not improper to preferve all the win- 

 ter under frames or glalTes, and fomc of 

 them may be tried in the open ground, 

 being tolerable hardy. 



SECT. V. CHAP. LI. 



Of minty tarragon:, and other fallet herbs 

 that ft and many years without renew- 

 ing, their frnall leaves being only cut 

 in the fpring. 



' I this clafs of plants belong eight 

 \ forts, *viz, the common mint, 

 tarragon, fage, cives, onions or chibouls, 

 rocket, burnet, forrel ; they all affed 

 one kind of culture, and are all of them 

 adapted to the fame purpofes. 

 Of mint. And firft of mint, call'd menta, by 

 7 liny y lib. 19. cap, 8. but for the fweet- 

 nefs of its odour it was amongft the 



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