Adam in Eden, Or, “B85 
c ples ‘ 
Nase Ptadd od: OF Reve deni MSP Ok ws des 
_% Names. 
Tis calledin Greek rsiJaev and 6i'laor,Teutlon and. Sestlon jab imepotl [a sqniod 
facile exerefcat, becawle it cometh up within few dayes.atcer: thefowing,and 
_ atcerwatds growerh very fat untill it attaine.to its bignefie, which in some 
hot Counrryes will be three. foot in lengthy and ofa great breadth, Teas 
called Bers in Latine, quoniam Figuram Litera Grece €. dum femine turgets-ree 
ferre viderur, becaule the figure of it beingin. eed is fomyhat like the. Greeke 
Letter Beta, as ( olvmella hath it. Itis called, alfo Sicula,.and Siels by fome,be- 
caule it is fuppofed that ic was.firkt brought out of Sicily, viz. The White Beet..In 
this place tor want ofa fitrer-I fhall fpeake, of Spinage , becaule it deferves'nor 
a Chapter by itfelfe, Ob raritatem in u{u medico 5 aildele made the Greeks call ic 
emayd,ta,being feldom ufed in Phyfick, yet amonett Saibeus aed Dowshekioers 
be few more common, . Some Lating Authors call it Spizachiagand Spimaccmm: 
Outer eee) nepoting it pg eoke and 
=r , cody ats 
7 ya bie bis ‘of tor ith put “pee n will 
4 2 The Common white Beet, 2. The Common red: ‘Beet 
3+ The Comon greene Beet: 4, The Roman red Béet., 5. The tralian 
6. Prickly Beets of Candy. - J. St Beets, 8. Yellow Beet. 9. Flat alk 
ed Beet. 10, The greater Spinage with Prickly Seeds, 13, Thelefler Spiz 
wage With prickly Seeds, 12. inage with {mooth {eeds, Spinage ‘ometimes 
besraase/aed henetis #8) eae SALES — 
Spine The Beets flower not the firtt yeareybur 
oe Sloe ae sou 
ic belowenin the Autumn edhe till next Spring, 
