4.70 "The ordering of the Kitchen Garden. 



with fugar. Rampion rootes are a kinde of Sallet with a great many, being boyled 

 tender, and eaten cold with vinegar and pepper. CrefTes is an herbe of eafie and quick 

 growth, and while it is young eaten eyther alone, or with parfley and other herbes : 

 it is of a ftrong tafte to them that are not accuftomed thereunto, but it is much vfed of 

 ftrangers. Rocket is of the fame nature and qualitie, but fomewhat ftronger in tafte : 

 they are both fowen in the Spring, and rife, feede and dye the fame yeare. Tarragon is 

 an herbe of as ftrong a tafte as eyther Rocket or CrefTes, it abideth and dyeth not euery 

 yeare, nor yet giueth ripe feede (as tar as euer could bee found with vs) any yeare, 

 but maketh fufficient increafe within the ground, fpreading his roots all abroad a great 

 way off. Muftard is a common fawce both with fifh and flefh, and the feede thereof (and 

 no part of the plant befides) is well knowne how to be vfed being grownded, as euery 

 one I thinke knoweth. The rootes of horfe Radifh likewife beeing grownd like 

 Muftard, is vfed both of ftrangers and our owne nation, as fawce for fifh. Tanfie is of 

 great vfe, almoft with all manner of perfons in the Spring of the yeare : it is more vfu- 

 ally planted of the rootes then otherwife ; for in that the rootes fpread far and neere 

 they may be eafily taken away, without any hurt to the reft of the rootes. Burnet, al- 

 though it be more vfed in wine in the Summer time then any way elfe, yet it is likewife 

 made a fallet herbe with many, to amend the harm or weak rellif h of fome other herbs. 

 Skirrets are better to be fowen of the feed then planted from the roots, and will come 

 on more fpeedily, and be fairer rootes : they are as often eaten cold as a Sallet, being 

 boyled and the pith taken out, as ftewed with butter and eaten warme. Let not Parfley 

 and Pencil be forgotten among your other Sallet herbes, whereof I haue fpoken before, 

 and therefore need fay no more of them. The flowers of Marigolds pickt cleane from 

 the heads, and pickled vp againft winter, make an excellent Sallet when no flowers are 

 to be had in a garden. Cloue Gilloflowers likewife preferued or pickled vp in the fame 

 manner (which is Jlratum fuper ftratum, a lay of flowers, and then ftrawed ouer with fine 

 dry and poudered Sugar, and fo lay after lay ftrawed ouer, vntill the pot bee full you 

 meane to keepe them in, and after filled vp or couered ouer with vinegar) make a Sallet 

 now adayes in the higheft efteeme with Gentles and Ladies of the greateft note : the 

 planting and ordering of them both is fpoken of feuerally in their proper places. 

 Goates bearde that groweth in Gardens only, as well as that which groweth wilde in 

 Medowes, &c. bearing a yellow flower, are vfed as a Sallet, the rootes beeing boyled 

 and pared are eaten cold with vinegar, oyle and pepper ; or elfe ftewed with butter and 

 eaten warme as Skirrets, Parfneps &c. And thus haue you here fet downe all thofe 

 moft vfuall Sallets are vfed in this Kingdome : I fay the moft vfuall, or that are nourfed 

 vp in Gardens ; for I know there are fome other wilde herbes and rootes, as Dandelion 

 &c. but they are vfed onely of ftrangers, and of thofe whofe curiofitie fearcheth out 

 the whole worke of nature to fatisfie their defires. 



CHAP. VII. 



Of diners Phyjicall herbes fit to be planted in Gardens, to ferue 

 for the efpeciall vfes of a familie. 



HAuing thus fhewed you all the herbes that are moft vfually planted in 

 Kitchen Gardens for ordinary vfes, let mee alfo adde a few other that 

 are alfo nourfed vp by many in their Gardens, to preferue health, and 

 helpe to cure fuch fmall difeafes as are often within the compafle of the Gentlewo- 

 mens skils, who, to helpe their owne family, and their poore neighbours that are farre 

 remote from Phyfitians and Chirurgions, take much paines both to doe good vnto 

 them, and to plant thofe herbes that are conducing to their deiires. And although 

 I doe recite fome that are mentioned in other places, yet I thought it meete to remem- 

 ber them altogether in one place. Angelica, the garden kinde, is fo good an herbe, 

 that there is no part thereof but is of much vfe, and all cordiall and preferuatiue from 

 infectious or contagious difeafes, whether you will diftill the water of the herbe, or 

 preferue or candie the rootes or the greene ftalkes, or vfe the feede in pouder or in di- 

 itillations, or deceptions with other things : it is fowen of feede, and will abide vntill 



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