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The Art of Cookery,


April fruits yet lasting.

YOU have now in the kitchen-garde and orchard, autumn carrots, winter spinach, sprouts of cabbage and cauliflowers, turnip-tops, asparagus, young radishes, Dutch brown lettuce and cresses, burnet, young onions, scallions, leeks, and early kidney beans. On hot beds, purslain, cucumbers, and mushrooms. Some cherries, green apricots, and gooseberries for tarts.

Pippins, deuxans, Westbury apple, russeting, gillifloer, the latter boncretien, oak pear, &c.

May. The product of the kitchen and fruit garden.

ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Silesia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purslain, cucumbers, nasturtian flowers, pease and beans sown in October, artichokes, scarlet strawberries, and kidney beans. Upon the hot beds, May cherries, May dukes. On walls, green apricots, and gooseberries.

Pippins, devans, or John apple, Westbury apples, russetting, gilliflower apples, the codling, &c.

The great karvile, winter-boncretien, black Worcester pear, surrein, and double blossom-pear. Now is the proper time to distil herbs, which are in their greatest perfection.

June. The product of the kitchen and fruit garden.

ASPARAGUS, garden beans and pease, kidney beans, culiflowers, artichokes, Battersea and Dutch cabbage, melons on the first ridges, young onions, carrots, and parsnips sown in February, purslain, burrage, burnet, the flowers of nasturtian, the Dutch brown, some blanched endive and cucumbers, and all sorts of pot-herbs.

Green gooseberries, strawberries, some raspberries, currants white and black, duke cherries, red harts, the Flemish and carnation cherries, codlings, jannatings, and the masculine apricot. And in the forcing frames all the forward kind of grapes.

July. The product of the kitchen and fruit garden.

RONCIVAL and winged pease, garden and kidney beans, cauliflowers, cabbages, artichokes, and their small suckers, all sorts of kitchen and aromatic herbs. Sallads, as cabbage-lettuce, purslain, burnet, young onions, cucumbers, blanched en-