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ingly: Not but that many of them may be improv’d, and render’dbetter in Broths and Decoctions, than in Oil, Vinegar, and otherLiquids and Ingredients: But as this holds not in all, nay, perhaps invery few comparatively, (provided, as I said, the Choice, Mixture,Constitution, and Season rightly be understood ) we stand up in De-fence and Vindication of our Sallet ^ against all Attacks and Opposerswhoever.

We have mentioned Season, and, with the great Hippocrates, pro-nounce them more proper for the Summer than the Winter; and whenthole Parts of Plants us'd in Sallet are yet tender, delicate, and im-pregnated with the Virtue of the Spring, to cool, refresh, and allaythe Heat and Drought of the Hot and Bilious, Young and over -San-guine, Cold, Bit nit, and Melancholy: In a word, for Persons of allAges, Humours and Constitutions whatsoever.

To this of the Annual Seasons, we add that of Culture also, as ofvery great Importance : And this is often dil'cover’d in the Taste, andconsequently in the Goodness of such Plants and Salleting as are rais’d,and brought us fresh out of the Country, compar’d with those whichthe Avarice of the Gardiner , or Luxury rather of the Age, temptsthem to force and resuscitate of the most desirable and deliciousPlants.

It is certain, fays a * learned Person, that about populous Cities, * Sir Thomaswhere Grounds are over-fore’d for Fruit and early Salleting, nothing ^ own ’*is more unwholsome. Men in the Country look so much more healthyand fresh ; and commonly are longer liv'd than those who dwell in theMiddle and Skirts of vast and crowded Cities, environ’d with rottenDung, loathsome and common Lay-Stalls ; whose noisom Steams,wafted by the Wind, poison and infect the ambient Air, and vitalSpirits, with those pernicious Exhalations and Materials of which theymake the Hot Beds for the raising of those Bracoces indeed, and for-ward Plants and Roots for the wanton Palate; but which being corruptin the Original, cannot but produce malignant and ill Effects to thosewho feed upon them. And the same was well oblerv’d by the Editorof our famous Roger Bacon' s Treatise concerning the Cure of Old Age ,and Breservation os Touth: There being nothing so proper for SalletHerbs , and other Edule Blants, as the genial and natural Mould, im-pregnate, and enrich’d with well-digested Compost (when requisite)without any Mixture of Garbage, odious Carrion, and other filthyOrdure, not half confum’d and ventilated, and indeed redue’d to thenext Disposition of Earth it self, as it should be; and that in sweet,f rising, aery, and moderately perstatile Grounds, where not only | Guile sub-Blants but Men do last, and live much longer. Nor doubt I, but jsbano quithat every Body would prefer Corn and other Grain, rais’d from Marie, iiTagriTdul-Chalk, Lime, and other sweet Soil and Amendments, before that cior. __ Hor.Which is produe’d from the Hunghil only. Beside, Experience shews, Sat ' 1 n ' $ 4>that the rankness of Hung is frequently the cause of Blasts and Smut-tinefs; as if the Lord of the T )niverse, by an Act of visible Provi-dence would check us, to take heed of all unnatural Sordidnefs andMixtures. We sensibly find this difference in Cattle and their Pasture;but most powerfully in Fowl, from such as are nouristsd with Corn,sweet and dry Food: And as of vegetable Meats , so of Hrinks, 'tisobserv’d, that the same Vine, according to the Soil, produces a Winetwice as heady as in the fame, and a less fore’d Ground; and the like I

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