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328 raddish, rape, spinach, lettuce small and cabbaged, burnet, tarragon, blanched sellery and endive, late peaches and plumbs, grapes and figs. Mulberries, filberts, and walnuts. The bullace, pines, and arbuters; and great variety of apples and pears.

CAULIFLOWERS in the green house, and some artichokes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, skirrets, scorzonera, horse-raddish, potatoes, onions, garlick, shalots, rocumbole, sellery, parsley, sorrel, thyme, savory, sweet marjoram dry, and clary cabbages and their sprouts, savoy cabbage, spinach, late cucumbers. Hot herbs on the hot-bed, burnet, cabbage, lettuce, endive blanched; several sorts of apples and pears.

Some bullaces, medlars, arbutas, walnuts, hazel nuts, and chesnuts. MANY sorts of cabbages and savory, spinach, and some cauliflowers in the conservatory, and artichokes in sand. Roots we have as in the last month. Small herbs on the hot-beds for salads, also mint, tarragon, and cabbage-lettuce preserved under glasses; chervil, sellery, and endive blanched. Sage, thyme, savoury, beet-leaves, tops of young beets, parsley, sorrel, spinach, leeks, and sweet marjoram, marigold-flowers, and mint dried. Asparagus on the hot-bed, and cucumbers on the plants sown in July and August, and plenty of pears and apples.

LET the patient be blooded at the arm nine or ten ounces. Take the of the herb, called in Latin, lichen cinereus tarrestis; in English, ash coloured ground liver-wort, cleaned, dried, and powdered, half an ounce. Of black pepper powdered, two drams. Mix these well together, and divide the powder into four doses, one of which must be taken every morning fasting, and four mornings successively, in half a pint of cow's milk warm. After these four doses are taken, the patient must go into the cold bath, or a cold spring or river every morning fasting for a month. He must be dipt all over, but not to stay in (with his head above water) longer than half a minute, if the