The Tra£tical Kitchen Gardiner, 377 



there are in the culture and improvement 

 feveral things worth obfervation ; for the 

 ^utch who are fome of the beft iiuf- 

 bands of tiie world in their gardens, give 

 it the beft foil they are able, and when 

 they are planted at about two or three foot 

 afunder in hples filled with good rich 

 dung, they water them well with the rich- 

 eft and beft impregnated water they can, 

 in order to make it grow large and crifpy, 

 which is the chief and moft excellent 

 qualification of this plant;, efpecially as 

 to the ftalk, which they fometimes ftrip 

 of the green, and eat them with oil or 

 butter, as they do their afparagus. 



What the particular ingredients were, 

 with which they compounded the water 

 for watering their broccoli plants with, 

 I could not learn, any other than that it 

 was compos d of the richeft of their foils, 

 and had a large quantity of falt-peter 

 diflblv'd in it 5 but as the feveral kinds of 

 impregnated water in the beginning of 

 this treatife , Sec. II. Cap. V. pag. 44, 

 45, and 46. are taken from a T)utch au- 

 thor, I recommend my reader thereto, 

 afTuring him from what I have Obferv'd, 

 he may exped great fuccefs from it, and 

 that broc(;oH is thin and dry, and little 

 3 wonii 



