ne Tragical Kitchen Gardiner. 30 



that few cooks care to be without it, 

 both whilft it is green, and whiift it is 

 dry. 



Of this ocimum, the ^Jjcz/^ci/ of TDiofc. Derha 

 lib. 2. cap. lyi, a celeritate proveniendi^^'^"' 

 dicitUTy as our oft-quoted etymoiogifts 

 tell 5 there was but one fpecies mention- 

 ed by Tarkinfon and Gerard, viz. oci- 

 mum vulgar ey Tark. p. 19- ocmum mag- 

 numy Ger. p. 673. the ordinary broad- 

 leav'd bafil, which is indeed the mod 

 ufed in pottage, foupes, &c. tho' there 

 is another fmall-leav'd kind that cuts 

 very fine with the fciffars. 



This herb is of a moft exhilarating 

 nature, and the greatefl inciter to vene- 

 real embraces of any that grows in the 

 garden, provided it be ufed in a proper 

 quantity. 



The feeds arc fowed on a hot-bed in 

 Aprily and tranfplanted into a good foil, 

 flourilh with us in England very well;, 

 tho' it be of a foreign extradion. There 

 is alfo another fmaller-leav'd kind, as 

 before mention d, ufeful for all pottages 

 and culinary ufes, as \^ ell as to fet in 

 ladies chambers. 



They are both raifed from feed fown 

 at one and the fame time, and in the 

 X fame 



