110 SECT. IX. -- PLANTS USED FOR CULINAKY PURPOSES.

It has been noticed of sea-kale, that, on eating; it, it does not impartto the urine that strong and unpleasant scent which asparagus andother vegetables do.

471. SKIRRETS. Sium Sisanim. —The roots of this plant are verysimilar to parsneps, both in flavour and quality; they are rather sweet-er, and not quite so agreeable to some palates. It is a biennial sownin March, and used all the winter.

472, SORREL, Common. Rumex Acelosa. —Bryant says the Irish,who are particularly fond of acids, eat the leaves with their milk andfish ; and the Laplanders use the juice of them as rennet to their milk.The Greenlanders cure themselves of the scurvy, with the juice mixedwith that of the scurvy-grass. The seeds may be sown, or the rootsplanted, in spring or autumn; it is not in general cultivation, but is tobe found abundantly wild in meadows, &c.

473. SORREL, Round-leaved, or French. Rumex scutatus. —Theleaves of the plant have more acidity in them than the common; andalthough not in general use, it is one of the best salad herbs in the earlypart of the year: it is propagated in the same mode as the com-mon sort.

474. SPINACH, Spinacia ohracea. —Two sorts of this vegetable arecultivated. The Round-leaved, which is very quick in its growth, issown for summer use ; and if the seeds are put into the ground everythree weeks, a constant succession is obtained while the weather iswarm; but frost will soon destroy it.

The Prickly Spinach is not so quick in growth, and is hardy enoughto stand our winters : it is therefore sown in August, and succeeds theround-leaved sort; and is a good vegetable all our winter months.

475. TARRAGON. Artemisia Dracunculus. —The leaves of this make» good ingredient with salad in the spring; and it also makes an excel-lent pickle. It is propagated by planting the small roots in spring orautumn, being a perennial.

476. THYME. Thymus vulgaris. —This is a well-known potherbused in broths and various modes of cookery : it is propagated by seedsand cuttings early in the spring.

477. TRUFFLES. Lyioperdon Tuber. — Not in cultivation. Thepoor people in this country find it worth their while to train up dogs forthe purpose of rinding them, which, by having some frequently laid intheir way, become so used to it, that they will scrape them up in thp