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matick, quickning the drooping fpirits, 

 purging the brain, and of fingiilar efFcd: 

 in the fcurvy, fo that all Englifhmen cmt 

 eat too much of this herb, or chew it 

 too much. 



The method of fowing this and thc^Oftheme- 

 folio win"; herbs is fomethinff different 5 ^/-'^'^ ^-^ 

 one method is in drills which are made 

 with one's finger; and the other is by 

 fowing of the feed all over the bed, and 

 the fifting on of very fine earth thro' 

 a fieve made of fine wire, or fplits about 

 a quarter of an inch thick 5 and this laft 

 is the beft method on hot-beds, there be- 

 ing double the quantity of feed fow'd 

 that way as can be any. This method 

 I remember to have pradis'd in the 

 royal garden in St. Jamess Tark, at 

 that time und^r the diredion of the 

 famous Mr. Lowder^ where it was once 

 my lot to manage this province for fome 

 time, and where we very feldom cut lefs 

 than twenty or thirty fallets a day 5 if 

 it is proper to remember fo unnatural a 

 part of life. 



The efculent rampion, of Tarkinfon^ of the 

 p. 648. or the rapuntium of Ger, /. ^^i, rampion. 

 by the French calfd reponcesy is a fallet 

 not of general ufe as other fallets are 5 

 T 4 they 



