274 The Trd6iical Kitchen Gardiner, 



Of f age. Sage^f*, falvia, hot and dry; the tops 

 wcli pick'd and v/afh'd, and alfo the 

 flowers, when they are in bloom, re- 

 tain all the noble properties of other 

 plants to that high degree, that the af- 

 fiduoLis life of it was fuppofed by the 

 anticnts to make men immortal, at leaft 

 very proiifick. This is to be admitted 

 into the fallct only when it is very young, 

 otherwife it is apt to be thought a bitter. 

 It is well known to be rais'd of flips or 

 cuttings, planted m April, 



Of cives. Gives are likewife in the fpring, when 

 very young, to be admitted into the 

 fallet in the room and for want of oni- 

 ons, v/hich it very well fupplies. It is 

 fuppos'd by Mr. T^e la §^intinyey to be 

 a native of England s and is well known 

 to be encreas'd by ofF-fets or flips. 



Of chi- Chibouls, or cerula, has been before 



huh. defcrib'd, under the head of the onion 

 in boil'd fallets. 



Ofburnet. * Timpemellj or pimpinellaj fo much 

 in requeft by the Italians and French, is 



t Quod ad multa, prsefertim ad foecunditatem, falutaris 

 fit, cum fteriles, hujus ufu frequenti, gravidas reddantur, 

 Catal. Hort. Botan. Oxofi. 1 64. 



* Pimpinella vel bipinnella a foliorum binis ordinibus 

 pennatim vel plumatim digeftis nominatur. Yi^:Oxford 

 Catal. p. 141. 



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