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tained fmall roundfeede: chaberls is very Fallot threds or rs 
The red Blite is iwall things like the white, but that: his leauesand tue heades are ; 
excceding red.at a ee te more purplifh. 
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id odds 1eoilieeiavaiefed do Abeachyesthet beayted obis felfe or hewed jechichehed | 
_ all Loblolly, or among other herbes to bee put intothe pot ; and yetfome 
. Koen viterlysetufeit, becaufe inditiers it protioketh caftings. Itis altogether 
tk 9 ideidowichoutrafte; bur, okt ecteaitn of the moiff fli pperie qualitic 
in ey ‘iphelpeth to toofenthebelly, Fhe vnfauorinefle wheteot hath 
4g ‘many Countriesigrowne intoa proucrbe, orby-word,to.call dull, flow; 
or lazie perfons by that name : They areaccounted more hurtfull tothe 
ftomacke, ‘and fotothe —_ — eyes, then other herbes, and therefore 
they are the leffe vfed. . tosl¥ off] 
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“tHere aremany sdiucetiiksie{Bockesfinliigte gnatur | 
'' ary, others brought from beyond Sea; whereof-fom sett) fame greene, 
Stiforacrpeltonn; fome reds the jeanet of foméare of »vfe only; and the root not 
viudspshbrthecaiabonty vied; and notthe leaues 's! and fome'againe, both roote 
and leafes'The ancient A csiact aceaed peare knew but twe forts, the 
eae Sieny Slenllvleit of se adhtecpienceion; Reuerclenehop tall foc bee 
Beere; others.thatont fmall red Beete, whichis of 2  dacib kell tole was their black 
Beete, which ia my opiaion isthe morelikely :Butto comete the matter in hand,and 
. giueyouthe defcriptions of them which are invfewith vs, and leae controuerfies to 
fuch a workeas is fit forthem,wherein all fuch matters maybe difcufledat large. 
The common white Beete hath many great leaues next the ground Gin 1 fome het \ , 
Countries growing to be three foote long, and very broade, in our Countrey they are 
very large, but nothing neerethat ct be pn) of a whitifh greene colour ; the ftalke 
is great, trong, and ribbed or crefted, bearing great tore of leaues vpon it vptothe 
very toppealmoft : the flowers FL a exnlongt tufts, fmall at the ends, and turning 
down their heads,which arc {mall paleg en 
ly feede : the roote is great, long and hard, wher it hath giuen {eede, of no vfeat all, 
but abidetha former winter with is leaues vpon ir, as all other forts following di 
» The common red Beet differeth’not from the white Bete; but only that it 9 
great, and both theleaues and rooresiare fomewhat ted? the leaues bee infomem 
red thenin others, which haue but red veiries or ftrakes in them, in fomealfo of a frei 
red, in others — dake ted : s'the' roote hereof is reds jfpongy;, and not vied bydiae 
eaten. | © VOM 
 Thecommon artene Beereisaily like vato the whireBeete; but of a darkuproene 
colour, Thishath beenc found neere the faleMarthes by Rochettet, inthe foote-way 
going from the Lady Levefons houfe thither, by a worthy jditigent and painefull ob= 
{eruer and preferuer ‘ivath of plants and all other natures Varieties, “often temenibred 
before in this worke,called ohn Sa ae there finding it,gaue methe know- 
ledge thereof, and I haue vpan his report feritheredown in this manner : 
The Romanered Beete, called Bera ara tli beth for leafe and toote the moft excel- 
lent Becteof allothers + his rootes bee as preat asthe greateft Carrot, exceeding red 
botii within and without, very fweete and toe; fic tobee eaten: this Beete groweth 
knw on them 
bis sgnal prises: 2 The Vieof ‘Bites. f Aiba pettomen re: 
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yellow burres,gining cornered prick. | | 
highs then the laft red Beete,: whofe rootesarenot vied tolbec caren # ‘the leanes like- 
wife 
