CHAP. I.
What things should be planted in any Kitchen-Garden of a reasonable extent, to render it compleatly furnished.
ALL the World is agreed, that there are few days in the whole Year in which we can be well without the assistance of the Kitchen-Gardens, whether it be in the fair and fruitful Season, whilst they are still growing on the Earth that first pro∣duced them, when we have no more to do but to go and gather them there; or in Winter when we must fetch them out of the Store-rooms, where we had timely laid them up for Security, before the arrival of the bitter cold, which not only makes the Earth unfruitful for a time, but destroys too a great part of those Vegetables which are so un∣happy as to be within its reach; and therefore it follows, that every day of the Year, we must be furnisht with what we need of this Nature, out of our own Gardens of Stores, or elsewhere, either by the liberality of our Friends, or what is most common from the Markets.
That you may therefore have at one view, the knowledge of what composes this a∣greeable assistance, that may be drawn out of the Kitchen-Garden. I shall here present you with a kind of Alphabetical Inventory of all the things that such a Garden should, and may furnish us with, throughout the whole course of the year.
- A.
- ALenois Cresses. Vid. Cresses.
- Alfange, a sort of Roman Lettuce.
- Alleluia, Wood-sorrel, alias French-Sorrel, or Sharp Trefoil.
- Anis.
- Artichokes, both Green, Violet and Red.
- Artichokes, Costons, or Slip-suckers.
- Asparagus.
- Aromaticks; see Fine Herbs.
- B.
- BAlm, called in French, Melisse.
- Basil or Basilick, both the Greater and the Lesser.
- Bays, the common sorts.
- Hot Beds, of several sorts, as for Sallets, and Spring-Radishes, and the first Early Strawberries, as for Musk-melons, Cucum∣bers, and Mushroons, and for raising some sorts of Flowers in the Winter, and other Plants to set again in the naked Earth, and for the forcing of Sorrel and Cabbage Let∣tuce, &c. to advance.
- Beet-Raves, or Red Beets, to produce Roots for Sallets.
- White Beets called Poirée, for Chards.
- Beans both of the common sort, and those called Harico's, or French Kidney Beans; as also Venetian Beans called Feve∣rolles.
- Bonne Dame, or Good Lady.
- Borage.
- Bour delais, or Verjuice Grape, both Red and White.
- Bucks horn Sallet.
- Bugloss.
- Burnet, called in French, Pimpernel.
- C.
- CAbbages of all sorts.
- Capers of the Ordinary sort.
- Capucin Capers, called otherwise Nusturces.
- Caprons, a sort of Strawberries.
- Spanish Cardons.
- Page 140 Carlots.
- Cellery.
- Chalots, vid Shalots, and Eschalots.
- Chards of Artichokes.
- Chards of Beets.
- Chassela's Grapes.
- Cheril, Musked and Ordinary.
- Chervi, or Skirrets.
- Chicons, the same with Alfange.
- Ciboules.
- Citrulls or Pompions, or Pumpkins.
- Cives.
- Colyflowers, and Coleworts, both comprehen∣ded under Cabbage in French.
- Cresses, as Al•nois or Garden Cresses.
- Cucumbers.
- Currans, which with Gooseberries, are both called Groseilles in French, and distin∣guish'd into the Prickly, the Red, and the Pearled.
- D.
- Dragons or Estragon, a Sallet.
- E.
- ENdive, White or Tame, as well the Cur∣led as the Plain, called in French Chicorée or Succory, as also the Wild sort.
- Eschalots, vid. Shalots.
- Estragon or Dragons, a Sallet.
- F.
- FEnnel.
- French-Sorrel; see Allcluja.
- Furnitures for Sallets, which with the French, are Spare-mint, called by them Balm, as also Estragon, or Dragons, English Cives, Fennil, Chervil, as well the common as the Musked sort, and Basil, &c.
- Fine Herbs, called in English, Sweet-Herbs, but meant by the French of all hot scen∣ted Herbs, as Ti•e, Morjarom, Lavender, Rhue, Worm-wood, Hysop, &c. which are planted in Borders.
- G.
- GArlick.
- Gooseberries, together with Currans, both confounded, under the name of Gro∣seilles in French, and distinguish'd into the Prickly, the Red, and the Pearled.
- Good Lady, vid. Bonne Dame.
- H.
- HYsop.
- L.
- LAvender in Borders.
- Leeks.
- Lettice of all sorts, according to the Sea∣sons, as well to sow in rows, or small Furrows, to cut when little, as to Cabbage, and to bind up, viz. the Coquille or Shell-Lettuce, alias the Winter, and the Passion Lettuce, the Curl'd bright Lettuce, and the Green Curl'd Lettuce, the Little Red Lettuce, the Short Lettuce, the Royal Let∣tuce, the Bellegarde, the Lettuce of Genua, of Perpignan, and of Auberviliers, the Impe∣rial, and the Roman Lettuce, which compre∣hends all the Chicons, both the Green and Red, otherwise called the Alphange Let∣tuce, and they are to tie up.
- M.
- MAcedonian Parsty. Vid. Parsly.
- Mâches.
- Mallou's and Marsh-mallo•s.
- Marjoram in Borders.
- Melons or Musk-melons.
- Mint, called in French, Balm.
- Muskat, or Musk-grapes, both the White, the Black, and the Red.
- The Long Muscat, alias, the Passe-Musquée• Mushrooms.
- N.
- NAsturces, or Capucin Capers. See Ca∣pers.
- O.
- ONions, both the Red and the White.
- P.
- PArsly, as well the Common as the Cur∣led.
- Macedonian Parsly.
- Parsnips.
- Patience, a sort of Sorrel. Vid. Sorrel.
- Pease, from the Month of May, which are the Hastings, till Allhallow-tide.
- Passe Musquée. See Muscats.
- Piercepier, a sort of Stone Parsly.
- Pompions or Pumpkins, called in French, Ci∣truls.
- Potirons, a sort of flat Pumpion or Pumpkin.
- Purslain, both of the Green, and Golden or Red sort.
- Page 141R.
- RAdishes, both in Spring, Summer, and Autumn.
- Raspberries, both Red and White.
- Responces, or Field-Radishes.
- Rue.
- Rocamboles, or Spanish Garlick.
- Rocket, a kind of Sallet. Furniture.
- Rose-mary.
- Rubarb.
- S.
- SAge.
- Salsisie, or Goat's-Beard.
- Saracens or Turky Wheat.
- Savory.
- Scorzonera, or Spanish Salsi•ie.
- Sellery. See Cellery.
- Shalots. See Eschalots.
- Smallage.
- Sorrel, both the Great, the Little, and the Round.
- Spinage.
- Spare-Mint. See Mint.
- Straw-berries, both Red and White.
- Succory. Vide. Endive.
- Suckers of Artichokes.
- Sweet Herbs. See Fine Herbs or Aromaticks.
- Sharp Trefoil. See Alleluia.
- T.
- TIme for Borders.
- Tripe-Madam.
- Sharp Trefoil, vid. Alleluia.
- Turkey or Saracens Wheat.
- Turneps.
- V.
- VErjuice Grapes, vid. Bourdelais.
- Vines.
- Violets in Borders.
- W.
- VVHeat. See Turkey and Saracen•
- Wheat.
- Worm-wood for Borders.
- Wood-sorrel. See Alleluia.
