they not only hurt not at all, but exceedingly benefit those who use them; indu’d as they are with such admirable Properties as they every day discover:  For some Plants not only nourish laudably, but induce a manifest and wholesom Change; as Onions, Garlick, Rochet, &c. which are both nutritive and warm; Lettuce, Purselan, the Intybs, &c. and indeed most of the Olera, refresh and cool:  And as their respective Juices being converted into the Substances of our Bodies, they become Aliment; so in regard of their Change and Alteration, we may allow them Medicinal; especially the greater Numbers, among which we all this while have skill but of very few (not only in the Vegetable Kingdom, but in the whole Materia Medica) which may be justly call’d Infallible Specifics, and upon whose Performance we may as safely depend, as we may on such as familiarly we use for a Crude Herb-Sallet; discreetly chosen, mingl’d, and dress’d accordingly:  Not but that many of them may be improv’d, and render’d better in Broths, and Decoctions, than in Oyl, Vinegar, and other Liquids and Ingredients:  But as this holds not in all, nay, perhaps in few comparatively, (provided, as I said, the Choice, Mixture, Constitution, and Season rightly be understood) we stand up in Defence and Vindication of our Sallet, against all Attacks and Opposers whoever.

We have mentioned Season and with the great Hippocrates, pronounce them more proper for the Summer, than the Winter; and when those Parts of Plants us’d in Sallet are yet tender, delicate, and impregnated with the Vertue of the Spring, to cool, refresh, and allay the Heat and Drought of the Hot and Bilious, Young and over-Sanguine, Cold, Pituit, and Melancholy; in a word, for Persons of all Ages, Humours, and Constitutions whatsoever.

To this of the Annual Seasons, we add that of Culture also, as of very great Importance:  And this is often discover’d in the taste and consequently in the Goodness of such Plants and Salleting, as are Rais’d and brought us fresh out of the Country, compar’d with those which the Avarice of the Gardiner, or Luxury rather of the Age, tempts them to force and Resuscitate of the most desirable and delicious Plants.

It is certain, says a [71]Learned Person, that about populous Cities, where Grounds are over-forc’d for Fruit and early Salleting, nothing is more unwholsom:  Men in the Country look so much more healthy and fresh; and commonly are longer liv’d than those who dwell in the Middle and Skirts of vast and crowded Cities, inviron’d with rotten Dung, loathsome and common Lay Stalls; whose noisome Steams, wafted by the Wind, poison and infect the ambient Air and vital Spirits, with those pernicious Exhalations, and Materials of which they make the Hot Beds for the raising those Praecoces indeed, and