Noun

If it ?eems ?o ?trange to ye, I would not have you re?t ?atisfied with my bare word for it. Let us begin to examine at home, and you will find among?t us ?erpents, that each of the kind, as ?oon as awaken’d by the ?pring, perceiving his ?kin ?tarky and rivelled, by lying the whole winter folded up in one po?ition, makes directly to the finochio , and crams him?elf with it, till it makes him with ea?e ca?t his old ?lough.

Finochio , or French fennel; for soups, sallads, &c. when the bottom part is blanched, by earthing up.

Finochio is a ?ort of dwarf fennel'', very aromatic; the thick ?talks of which, earthed up, when nearly full grown, five or ?ix inches to ''blanch'', are u?ed in ''?oups'' and ''?allads , or ?liced, and eat alone with oil, vinegar, &c.

What’s the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finochio that cries like a woman?

Noun

The Finochi, or Finochio of the Italians'', and which, from a literal Termination generally put to ''Engli?h Words, I call Finochie , is a Kind of Fennel; which when tied up, and blanched a little, is one of the whol?ome?t Aromaticks that any Body can eat, (but is withal a little two ?trong for ?ome Palates,) yet is in great Reque?t among?t Valetudinarians, or tho?e who endeavour after Health and long Life.

Once a Week, or Fortnight, or thereabout, al?o ought the Gardener to be putting in a few Finochie -Seeds; and to be tran?planting out tho?e Cauliflore, Brocaulie, Borecaule, and Savoy Plants, with which the Tables of the Curious are to be furni?h’d between Michaelmas'' and ''Chri?tmas .

Fennel is a good deal used, in continental Europe, in soups, fish-sauces, garnishes, and salads. It is also considerably used in England, but less with us. The Italians blanch and eat the stalks of one variety called Finochie , like celery.