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The ordinary Garden Turnep hath many large, and Km^ rough grcene leaues, with 

 deepe and vneuen gafhes on lx>th lides of them : tin- Italke ril'eth vp among the leaues 

 about two foote high, ( "pread at the toppe into many branches, bearing thereon yellow 

 flowers, which turne into long pods, with blackilh nuind leede in them : the roote is 

 round and white, fume greater, fome I 'mailer ; the belt kinde is knowne to be flat, with 

 a finall pigges tale-like roote vnderneath it; the worler kinde which is more common 

 in many places of this land, both North and Welt, is round, and not flat, with a grea- 

 ter pigges tayle-like roote vnderneath. 



The yellow kinde doth often grow very great, it is hardly difcerned from the ordi- 

 nary kinde while it groweth, but by the greatnefle and fpreading of the leaues beeing 

 boyled, the roote changeth more yellow, fomewhat neare the colour of a Carrot. 



The red Turnep groweth vlually greater then any of the other, efpecially in a good 

 ground, being of a faire red colour on the outfide, but being pared, as white as any o- 

 ther on the inlide. This, as Matthiolus faith, doth grow in the Countrey of A nan ia, 

 where hee hath ieene an infinite number of them that haue waighed fifty pound a 

 peece, and in fome places hee faith, a hundred pound a peece, both which we would 

 thinke to be incredible, but that we lee the kind is greatly giuen to grow, and in warme 

 Countries they may fo thriue, that the bulke or bignefie of the roote may fo farre pafTe 

 the growth of our Countrey, as that it may rile to that quantity aboue fpecified. 



The Navew gentle is of two kindes, a Imaller and a greater ; the fmaller is vfually 

 called in France, Naveau de Cane, the roote is fomewhat long with the roundnefle ; 

 this kinde is twice as bigge as a mans thumbe, and many of them lefle : The other is 

 long and great, almoll as big as the fhort Carrot, but for the moft part of an vneuen 

 length, and roundnefTe vnto the very end, where it fpreadeth into diuers fmall long 

 fibres : neyther of them doth differ much from the Turnep, in leafe, flower or feed. 



The Vfe of Turneps. 



Being boyled in fait broth, they all of them eate moll kindly, and by rea- 

 fon of their fweetnefle are much efteemed, and often feene as a dim at good 

 mens tables : but the greater quantitie of them are fpent at poore mens 

 fearts. They nourifh much, and engender moift and loofe flefh, and are very 

 windy. The feede of the Navew gentle is (as I take it) called of Andro- 

 machus in the compofition of his Treakle, Bunias dulcis : for Diofcorides 

 and Plinie doe both fay, that the feede of the tame Bunias or Napus is put 

 into Antidotes, and not the feede of the wilde, which is more fharpe and 

 bitter; neyther the feede of the Turnep, which is called in Greeke 

 in Latine Rapum, becaufe the feede is not fweete. 





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CHAP. XLII. 



Raphanus. Raddifh. 



Here are two principall kindes of Garden Raddifh, the one is blackilh on the 

 outfide, and the other white ; and of both thefe there is fome diuifion againe, 

 as mail be mewed. Dittander and horfe Raddifh be reckoned kinds thereof. 

 The ordinary Raddifh hath long leaues, vneuenly gained on both fides, the ftalke ri- 

 feth vp to the height of three or foure foote, bearing many purplifh flowers at the top, 

 made of foure leaues a peece, which turne into thicke and fhort pods, wherein are con- 

 tained round feede, greater then Turnep or Coleworte feede, and of a pale reddifh 

 colour : the roote is long, white, and of a reddifh purple colour on the outfide toward 

 the toppe of it, and of a (harpe biting tafle. 



There is a fmall kind of Raddifh that commeth earlier then the former, that we haue 

 had out of the low Countries, not differing in any thing elfe. 



The blacke Raddifh I haue had brought me out of the lowe Countries, where they 

 fell them in fome places by the pound, and is accounted with them a rare winter fallet : 



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