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or in bunches, which when tied up you 

 may earth, and it will whiten as foon 

 or fooner than fellery does, and is moft 

 excellent in all foupcs and pottages. 



The fpinach and lob lettuce have been Of /pi- 

 fo largely treated of in the fedion where- Yofiettua 

 in boird fallets are fet down, that no- ^ ^ 

 thins; need be faid more on this head, 

 or of the raifing of it. 



Purflane, porUilacUy is admitted intoo////r/- 

 fallets with a very good grace, being in- 

 deed, when mix'd with hotter herbs, the 

 beft herb that is cut in the leaves. It i^ 

 called pOYtulaca * quod folii portulas imi- 

 tetur 5 the Herbals take notice of it by 

 thefe names, portulaca fativa^ Parkin- 

 fon, portulaca domefticaj Gerard, 



p. \ , garden purflane ; portulaca cretica 

 ^ark, p.72^> Cotyledon ftellata Bauh. 

 m Tinacey candy purflane agreeable to 

 the kinds now propagated, viz. the green 

 and golden purflane. It is multiplied by \ 

 feed, the latter end of February^ and 

 the beginning of March-, being always 

 as late as cucumbers, and fo ought con- 

 ftantly to be kept for cutting all the cu- 

 cumber feafon s which is done by cutting 



f Job. Bauh. torn. 3. /. 678. 



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