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we “Lhe Kitchen Garden, | 
- Pepe,Pompions, 
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: withftanding the diuerfities of bignefleandcolour,..- .- 
VV haue but one kinde of Pompion (as I take it) inall ions Contins > NOt. 
~ onthe ground (if nothing bee by it whreeon. it-m 
The Pompionor great M as fome call it Milion) creepeth vp- 
t may take hold andclimbe) with very 
great, ribbed, rough, and prickly branches',| whereonare fet very large rough leaues, 
- eutinon theedges with :deepe gafhes, and dented befides , with many clafpersalfo, 
-isin thereft, groweththe fruit, whichis: 
which windeaboureuery thing they meetewithall : the flowers.are great and large, 
hollow and yellow, diuided at the brims into fiue parts, at the bottome of which, as it 
s very great, fometimes of thebignefleof a 
mans body, and oftentimes |leffc, in {ome ribbed or bunched, in others plaine, and ei- 
ther long or round, either green or yellow, or gray,as Nature liftethto thew her felfe 3 
_ for itis but wafte time, to recite all the formes and colours may be obferuedinthem: 
the inner rinde next vato the outer is yellowith and firme: the feedeis great, flat, and 
white, lying in the middle of the warery pulpe: theroote is of the bigneffe ofa mans 
thumbe or greater, dif{perfed vnder ground with many {mall fibres ioyned to 
Gourds are kindesof Melons ; but becaufe wee haueno vfeof them, wee 
them vnto their fit place. 7 rise] SS enor fuses fosct 
<p eae rr TT etuituidsao} 
/-) “They are boyled in fairewater and fale, or 
foemetimes ia milke,and {o eaten, orelfe buttered, They vie likewife totake 
Outtheinner watery fubftance with the feedes, and fill vp the place witht 
Pippins , and having laid onthe couer which they cutoff from the toppe, 
to take out the pulpe, they bakethem together, and ee the Cities 
as well asthe Country people,doc eate thereof,as of a dainty dith. i 
The feede hereof, aswell asof Cowcumbersand Melons, arecooling, 
and ferue for emulfions in the like manner for Almond milkes,éc.forthofe | 
aretroubled withthe ftone, ” at 3 O64 3) Be yoo sib 
‘iii -_ Ps siittandl. 
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dens or Orchards I intend to giue you the knowledge in this place, and leaue 
: the other toa fitter ; yet I muft needs fhew you of one of the wilde forts, which 
for his ftrat cis worthy of this Garden : AndI muft alfoenforme you, thatthe 
wilde Strawberry that groweth inthe Woods is our Garden Strawberry, but bettered 
by the foyleand tranfplanting. oa Se ee 3 
The Strawberry hath his leaues clofed together at the firft {pringing vp, which af- 
terwards {pread themfelues into three seam or leaues,euery one ftanding vpon 
a fmall long foote-ftalke, greene on the vpperfide, grayifh vnderneath, and {nipped 
or dented aboutthe edges ; among which rife vp diuers {mall ftalkes, bearing foureor 
owersatthetops, confifting of fine white round pointed leaves , fomewhat yel- _ 
jowi(h inthe bottome, with fome yellow threads therein ; after which come the fruit, 
made of many fmall graines fetrogether , like vntoa finall Malberry or Rafpis, red- 
dith when it is ripe, and ofa pleafant winy tafte, wherein is enclofed diuers {mall blac- 
kifh {cede : the roote is reddith and long, with diuers finall threads at it, and eon 
Sine 3 fort 
OP antes forts of Strawberries wheres: thofethatarenourfed vpinGar- _ 
