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The Kitchen Garden. 495 



The Vies of thefc Chcruils. 



The common Chcruill is much vfcd of the French and Dutch people, to 

 bee boyled or (tewed in a pipkin, eyther by it felte, or with other herbes, 

 whereof they make a Loblolly, and fo eate it. It is vfed as a pot-herbe 

 with vs. 



Swccte Cheruill, gathered while it is young, and put among other herbes 

 for a fallct, addeth a meruellous good rellifh to all the rell. Some commend 

 the greenc 1 cedes fliced and put in a fallet of herbes, and eaten with vinegar 

 and oyle, to comfort the cold llomacke of the aged. The roots are vfed by 

 diuers, being boyled, and after eaten with oyle and vinegar, as an excellent 

 fallet for the fame purpofe. The preferued or candid rootes are of fingular 

 good vfe to warme and comfort a cold flegmaticke ftomack, and is thought 

 to be a good preferuatiue in the time of the plague. 



CHAP. XXVII. 



Malua Crifjfxi. French Mallowes. 



THe curld or French Mallow groweth vp with an vpright greene round llalke, 

 as high vfually as any man, whereon from all fides grow forth round whitifh 

 greene leaues, curld or crumpled about the edges, like a ruffe, elfe very like vn- 

 to an ordinary great Mallow leafe : the flowers grow both vpon the ftalke, and on the 

 other branches that fpring from them, being fmall and white ; after which come fmall 

 cafes with blacke feede like the other Mallowes: the roote perifheth when it hath 

 borne feede, but abideth vfually the firft yeare, and the fecond runneth vp to flower 

 and feede. 



The Vfe of French Mallowes. 



It is much vfed as a pot-herbe, efpecially when there is caufe to moue the 

 belly downward, which by his flippery qualitie it doth helpe forward. It 

 hath beene in times part, and fo is to this day in fome places, vfed to be boy- 

 led or Hewed, eyther by it felfe with butter, or with other herbes, and fo 

 eaten. 



CHAP. XXVIII. 



Imttihum. Succorie and Endiue. 



I Put both Succorie and Endiue into one chapter and delcription, becaufe they are 

 both of one kindred ; and although they differ a little the one from the other, yet 

 they agree both in this, that they are eaten eyther greene or whited, of many. 



Endiue, the fmooth as well as the curld, beareth a longer and a larger leafe then 

 Succorie, and abideth but one yeare, quickely running vp to rtalke and feede, and then 

 perifheth : whereas Succorie abideth many years, and hath long and narrower leaues, 

 fomewhat more cut in, or torne on the edges: both of them haue blew flowers, and 

 the feede of the fmooth or ordinary Endiue is fo like vnto the Succorie, that it is very 

 hard to diltinguilh them af under by light ; but the curld Endiue giueth blackifh and flat 

 feede, very like vnto blacke Lettice leede : the rootes of the Endiue perifh, but the 

 Succorie abideth. 



The Vfe of Succory and Endiue. 



Although Succorie bee fomewhat more bitter in talte then the Endiues, 



yet 



