A SUTTLEMENT to 



to Mr. Evelyn, or as it is in T>el€ampiu5's 

 edition, the Ilmerida of 7liny, and fo 

 rank'd amongfl the Crambe or fea kinds 

 oi\}vx.z BraJJica, growing as it does on the 

 fhores of Naples Sicily, from whence 

 the bcft feeds are brought lo England. 



It grows fo common that it is not fq 

 much a garden-plant in Italy , as it is a 

 wild one 5 but in Holland, where they 

 have been always before us in the produc- 

 tions of the garden, they have been culti- 

 vated with great fuccefs, as the gardiners 

 there, from whom I had this account, tef- 

 tify. 



It is a hardy plant, and you may feme it 

 ahnoft any month in the year 5 but about 

 Jpril or May is the moft ufual time, 

 for then it Vv'ill fupply you with a pretty 

 green curi'd boyler all the fummer, to mix 

 with your turncps, carrots, colly-flowers, 

 and other boiling roots and herbs, but 

 t jic (lalk of the leaves, which is indeed the 

 moll efteemed part of itj is not fo good, 

 as it is more towards the middle of win- 

 ter, and after the froft has feized it, on 

 Y/hich account it is efteem'd a better difli 

 afrer Chrijimas, than it is before. 



It has been noted that it is a plant ea- 

 ij to be raifed if the feed i$ gogd 5 but 



there 



