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L i b . i. Of the Hiflorie of Plants. p i j 



t h e areatBur-docke,butmorecutinordiuided:amongft which come forth faire yellow floUres 

 growing nakedly vpon their tender foot-ftalkes : the which being paft,the fruit commeth in place 

 of a foor in lcngtb,greeneon the fide toward the ground, yellow to the S u n ward, ftraked with ma- 

 n v fpots and lines of d iuers colours. The pulpe or meat is hard and fail like that of our Pomnion 



f The Place. v ' 



Thefe kindes of Cucumbers are planted in gardens in moft countries of the world. 



^J The Time. 



According to my proraife heretofore made,I haue thought it good and conuenient in this place 

 _ fetdowne not onely the time of fowingand fettingof Cucumbers, Muske-melons, Citruls 

 pompions, Gourds, and fuch like, but alfo how to fetor fowall manner and kindes of other colde 

 feeds, as al fo whatfoeuer ftrange feeds are brought vnto vs from the Indies, or other hot Regions • 



. : of all in the middeft of Aprill or fomewhat fooner(ifthe weather be any thing temperate) 

 you mail caufe to be made a bed or bankeof hot and new horfedung taken from the ftabic (and 

 not from the dunghill) of an ell in breadth, and the like in depth or thicknefle, of what length you 

 pleafe.according to the quantity of your feedrthe which bank you mall couer with hoops or poles 

 that you may the more conueniently couer the whole bed or bankewith Mats, old painted cloth' 

 ftraw or fuch like, to keepe it from the injurie of the cold frofty nights, and not hurt the thing J 

 planted in the bed : then (hall you couer the bed all ouer with the moft fertileft earth finely fifted 

 halfe a foot thicke,wherein you (hall fet or low your feedsrthat being done, cart your ftraw or other 



rntiprfnrp nner rhi"> (.imr>.anrl Cr\ \pr ir raft ■•rtt-K ,-..,. l~~l.:.->~ „„:.»_..<.:_ «___ 



vidcl. 



look 



for the fpace of feuen or eight daies at the moft, for commonly in that fpace they will thruft thenv 

 felucs vp nakedly forth of the ground : then muft you caft vpon them in the hotteft time of the day 

 fotnc water that hath ftood in the houfe or in the Sun a day before, becaufe the water fo caft vpon 

 them newly taken forth of a well or pumpe, will fo chill and coole them being brought and nouri- 

 ihed vpin fuch a hot place, that prefently in one day you haue loft aUyo ur abour ; I mean not on 

 lyyour feed,but your bankealfo $ for in this fpace the great heate of the dung is loft and fpent kee- 

 ping in memory that euery night they muftbecouered and opened when the day is warmed with 

 the Sun beames : this muft be done from rime to time vntill that the plants haue foure or fix leaues 

 a piece, and that the danger of the cold nights is paft : then muft they be replanted very curiouflv 

 with the earrh (ticking to the plant, as neere as may be vnto the moft fruitfull place, and where the 

 5un hath moft force in the gardenjprouided that vpon the remouing of them you muft couer them 

 with fomc Docke leaues or wi fpes of ftraw, propped vp with forked ftickes, as well to keepe them 

 iroru thecold of the night, as alfo the heat of the Sun : for they cannot whileft they be young and 

 newly planted, endure neither o"— *---tj ». .. _..» . ' ./ ». 



their new place or dwell ing. 



Oftentimes itfallethout that fome feeds are more franker and forwarder than the reft which 

 commonly do rife vp very nakedly with long necks not vnlike to the ftalke of a fmall murtirome of 

 anigntold.This naked ftalke muft you couer with the like fine earth euen to the greene leaues ha 



U "nkr §ard W pIace yOUr banke fo thac " ma y be defended fr om the North-windes. ' " 



Obferue thefe inftruftions diligently, and then you mall not haue caufe to compiatne that your 

 *M*were : not good nor of the intemperancie of the climatfby reafon wherof you can get no fruit) 

 although it were in the furtheft parts of the North of Scotland. 



U" The Thames. 



i ne Cucumber is named generally Cucumk : in (hops, Cucnmer : and is taken for that which the 

 recians call » w ;*& an Latine y Cucumit fitivmflt garden Cucumber : in high Cutch, Cuctiltten 

 !" Italian, Concomero: in Spzni(h,Cogomhr0 : in" * " ' ' ' ~ ' WWI 



m E nglifh,Cowcumbersand Cucumbers. 



rooted 



Concommwti 



ftetnpe 



^r The Temperature and Vertues . 



intJi a — -"""•"•"."I n,mj«.i«i.uiv.wiu auu muni 111 uic iccouu ocgrcc. i ney putrifie Ibon a 



fime mac 5 e ' and y ee Id vnto the bod y a coId and raoift nouri (hment,and that very little,and the 



good 



yellow 



a 



cold 





B 



bmuchas the fruit. Itopenethandclenfeth, prouoketh vrtne,o- C 

 helpeth the cheft and lungs that are inflamed , and being ftamped 



^doutwardly applied in (lead of a clenfer,tt maketh the skin fmooth and faire. 



yeeldeth not any nouriflimcnt that is good,infomuch as the vnmeafurabJe vfe 



ther oarcs troubled J) 



ftamped and made 



y cold hu 



ftrainedwithmilkeor E 



fweet 



