4.88 'The Kitchen Garden. 



vp a round greene hairy or prickly ftalk, bearing at the toppe, among a few fmall green 

 leaues, diuers fmall yellow flowers in rough heads, which turne into doune, containing 

 within them browne yellowifh fmall long feedes, fomewhat like vnto the feede of 

 Hawkeweede : the roote is wooddy, which perifheth quickly after it hath borne feed ; 

 but is tender while it is young. 



The Vfe of Langdebeefe. 



The leaues are onely vfed in all places that I know, or euer could learne, 

 for an herbe for the pot among others, and is thought to bee good to loo- 

 fen the belly. 



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CHAP. XVIII. 

 Atriplex Jiue Olus Aureum. Arrach. 



'Here be diuers kindes of Arrach, or Orach, as fome doe call them ; fome of 

 the Garden, whereof I meane to entreate in this place ; others wilde of the 

 Fieldes, &c. and others of the Sea, which are not to bee fpoken of in this 

 worke, but referred to a generall hiftorie. The white garden Arrach, or Orach, hath 

 diuers leaues, (landing vpon their feuerall footeftalkes, broade at the bottome, ending 

 in two points like an arrow, with two feathers at the head, and fmall pointed at the 

 end of the leafe, of a whitifh yellow greene colour, and as it were ftrewed ouer with 

 flower or meale, efpecially while they are young : the ftalke likewife is mealy, bearing 

 many branches with fmall yellow flowers on them, which turne into fmall leafie feeds : 

 the roote groweth fomewhat deepe in the ground, with many fmall threds fattened 

 thereto : it quickly fpringeth vp of the feede, groweth great, and fadeth away as foon 

 as it hath borne feede. 



The purple Arrach is in all things like vnto the white, fauing onely in the colour of 

 the leafe, ftalke, feede, &c. which are all of a mealy dufty purplifh colour. 



The Vfe of Arrach. 





Arrach is cold and moift, and of a lubricke or flippery qualitie, whereby 

 it quickely pafleth through the ftomacke and belly, and maketh it foluble, 

 and is of many vfed for that purpofe, being boyled and buttered, or put a- 

 mong other herbes into the pot to make pottage. 



There are many dimes of meate made with them while they are young, 

 for being almoft without fauour of themfelues, they are the more conuer- 

 tible into what rellim any one will make them with Sugar, Spice &c. 



CHAP. XIX. 

 Blitum. Elites. 



THere be diuers forts of Elites, fome whereof I haue entreated in the former 

 part of this worke, vnder the title of Amaranthus, Flower gentle : others that 

 are nourfed vp in Gardens, I will fet forth in this place, which are onely two, 

 that haue come to my knowledge, that is, the white and the red, and are of a qualitie 

 as neere vnto Arrach as vnto Beetes, participating of both, and therefore I haue pla- 

 ced them betwixt them. The white Elite hath leaues fomewhat like vnto Beetes, but 

 (mailer, rounder, and of a whitifh greene colour, euery one {landing vpon a fmall long 

 footeftalke: the ftalke rifeth vp two or three foote high, with many fuch like leaues 

 thereon : the flowers grow at the top in long round tufts or clullers, wherein are con- 

 tained 



