CQ 2 The Kitchen Garden. 



CHAP. XXXI 1 1 1. 

 Eruca fatiua. Garden Rocket. 



OVr Garden Rocket is but a wilde kinde brought into Gardens ; for the true 

 Romane Rocket hath larger leaues; this hath many long leaues, much torne 

 or rent on the edges, fmaller and narrower then the Romane kinde: the flow- 

 ers hereof are of a pale yellowifh colour, whereas the true is whitifh, confuting of 

 foure leaues : the feede of this is reddifh, contained in fmaller and longer pods then 

 the true, which are fhorter and thicker, and the feede of a whitifh yellow colour : the 

 rootes of both perifh as foone as they haue giuen feede. Some haue taken one fort of 

 the wilde kinde for Muftard, and haue vfed the feede for the fame purpofe. 



The Vfe of Rocket. 





It is for the moft part eaten with Lettice, Purflane, or fuch cold herbes, 

 and not alone, becaufe of its heate and ftrength ; but that with the white 

 feede is milder. The feede of Rocket is good to prouoke vrine, and to 

 ftirre vp bodily luft. 



The feede bruifed, and mixed with a little vinegar, and of the gall of an 

 Oxe, cleanfeth the face of freckles, fpots, and blew markes, that come by 

 beatings, fals, or otherwaies. 



Matthiolus faith, that the leaues boyled, and giuen with fome Sugar to 

 little children, cureth them of the cough. 



The feede is held to be helpfull to fpleneticke perfons ; as alfo to kill the 

 wormes of the belly. 





CHAP. XXXV. 

 Sinapi ' fativum. Garden Muftard. 



r "T"'He Muftard that is moft vfuall in this Country, howfoeuer diuers doe for their 



priuate vfes fowe it in their Gardens or Orchards, in fome conuenient corner, 



yet the fame is found wilde alfo abroad in many places. It hath many rough 



long diuided leaues, of an ouerworne greene colour : the ftalke is diuided at the toppe 



into diuers branches, whereon growe diuers pale yellow flowers, in a great length, 



which turne into fmall long pods, wherein is contained blackifh feede, inclining to 



rednefle, of a fiery fharpe tafte : the roote is tough and white, running deepe into 



the ground, with many fmall fibres at it. 



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The Vfe of Muftard. 



The feede hereof grownd between two ftones, fitted for the purpofe, and 

 called a Querne, with fome good vinegar added vnto it, to make it liquid 

 and running, is that kinde of Muftard that is vfually made of all forts, to 

 ferue as fa wee both for fifh and flefh. 



The fame liquid Muftard is of good vfe, being frefh, for Epilepticke per- 

 fons, to warme and quicken thofe dull fpirits that are fopite and fcarce ap- 

 peare, if it be applyed both inwardly and outwardly. 



It is with good fucceffe alfo giuen to thofe that haue fhort breathes, and 

 troubled with a cough in the lungs. 



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