The Tra5tical Kitchen Gardiner. 



it clofe now and then, and laying on a 

 little frefli mold, and watering it well. 



Mr. Evelyn fays that the golden kind 

 is the beft, whilfl: tender, tho' I muft 

 own I have not obferved any difference. 

 That it is eminently moift and cooling, 

 quickens appetite, affwages third, and is 

 very profitable for hot and bilous tem- 

 pers, as well as thofe that are fanguine 5 

 and in fhort, that it has no bad quality 

 but being prejudicial to the teeth^ is ve- 

 ry well known. 



SECT. VI. CHAP. LIIL 



Of the feafons proper for every kind of 

 fallet herby the quantity to be ufed^ &c. 



^ I ''Hat I may omit nothing that can 

 JL contribute towards the making 

 this treatife as ufeful as I can, 1 have in 

 this chapter fet down the particular fea- 

 fons when every kind of fallet is in its 

 beft perfedion, having divided it accord- 

 ing to the four feafons or quarters of 

 the yearj with the proportion proper to 

 be ufed of each kind , fomething agree- 

 able to what the learned Mr. Boyle^ in 

 the TranfaSiions of the Royal Society^ 



