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^ The Place. 



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Kidney Beanes doe eafily and foone fpting vp, and grow into a very great Ienarfe u • r 

 ere to long poles faftned hard by them,or hard by arbors or banqueting places ofh,Cv g f 0wac 

 X on the ground.flowiy come vp.hardly bring forth frukand become &K f » .,J?S lf ? the y k 



fhrajl 



Co 



ring 



^J" The Time. 



tbe end of Summer. 



fpecially in the mid ft of April,but not before: the fruitis ripeabouc 





^J The Names. 



*/?«*,and moft of the other old Writers 



Piefwidescalkth 



itcliraeth vp as Smilax doth, and taketh hold of props, ftaies, and fhrubbes ftandinpT ' ufe 



others name it ***,, a Diminitiue deriued from f**» , for ,<m« and **„,, are not one? If *w U : 

 fame pu !fe called by diuers names.as fome fuppoie, but fundry fruits one diffrrina fl^u !! ifc 

 as Galen in his firft booke of the Faculties of ftouriftmeots doth b^S^t^h 

 trcateth of them both .For firft he HiTnnri.fi, ^r,u.u, ~„a •,,*..; o c "»yaeciare, where he m- 



fputeth ofphafel 



Phafeoliu 



withftanding he gathereth and c oncludeth that it is a fruit of a garden plant in Italy and tfv'' 

 growing in the fields,which is in forme longer than theCidmugs.and was commonly called iTnhfs 

 time Fajeoln. Of his opinion is Paulus ^gmeta, writing of P^^which he nameth DAchm Z 

 the 7 p.chap. of hisfirft booke. Moreouer, Fafelw WAS in times paftacomraon puife in halvand 

 Rome and Boluhm a ftrange pulfcjfor Columella and P^/^writers of husbandry,haue made men 

 tion of the fowing of Hafelus : and Virgil calleth it Vtlk in the firft of his Georgidcs : butconcer" 

 ning the fowing oiDoltchus or Kidney Beane, none of the Latines haue written, by reafon that tbe 

 fame was rare in Italy, and fowne onely in gardens, as Galen hath affirmed, naming it oftentimes a 



garden nlant, and fheivinp that the fame a«iv#» han*. A \A ic rmrn« ;« r^„-: jit [ ?r ~* . , 



Fafeolus 



:hat is to tey^Smilax hortenfu^x garden Smilax,l 

 his in another feucrall chapter,flieweth plainel) 

 ifeoluscbus, is another plant differing from Fafeh 

 t is not to be doubted, but that Phafdus with t 



Diopndcs 



that Smilax hortenfi, 



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\z* T — v -^-»«w, uvv^ w „w uiauu/Ho^r^/-f»w,diiu uiw* amcr 3 wmcn notvvirnitan- 



ding be neere one to another in names : and it is not to be doubted but that they are deceiued, who 

 thinke it to be one and the felfe fame Pulfe called by fundry names. 



This plant is named in EngIi(h,Kidney Beane, S pcrage Beanes : of fome, Fafelles, or long Pea- 

 fon, French Beanes, Garden Smilax, and Romane Beanes : in French. Feues de Romrne : in Dutch, 



'EutcUgboonen 



^ The Temperature. ^ 



fcorijes teacheth,do more loofe the belly than Peafon- they are leffi 



Ifo without ineendrinf 



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neffeat all : the Arabian Phyfitions fay that they are hot and moift of nature 



^ The Femes. 



The fruit and cods of Kidney Beanes boy led together before they be ripe, and buttered, and fo 



eaten with their cods, are erceeAinar Ae\irate meat anA An^nn- ;nn.r > /4o.«.r.J.«o t-tiinrtierPulleS 



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doe 



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doe alfo gently loofe the belly, prouoke vrine, and ingender good 

 u eat them when they be ripe,thev are neither toothfome nor whole 

 taken whileft they are yet greene 



reafonablcwell, 

 Therefore tbey 



-*v iu u C lAzcn wimcii cney are yet greene ana tenaer, wnicn are nrit Doyica vn.tui uicy uc **-^- > 

 then is the rib or finew that doth run alongft the cod to be taken away ; then muft they be put into 

 a ftone pipkin,or fome other velTell with butter, and fet to the fire agaiae to Hew, or boyle gently : 



of a pleafant 



hap. 5op. Of the flat "Beane called Lupine 





^ The Defer if lion. 



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T He tame or Garden Lupine hath round hard ftems, which of therofeloes ^«jj°jj; 

 t right without any fuccour, help or ftay uhe lcaues confift of fiue,fix,or ^^^^ 



