The Kitchen Garden. 



plifh skins, and is diuided into many parts or cloues, which ferue both to fet againe for 

 increafe, and alfo to vfe as neede fhall require, and is of a very ftrong fmell and tafte, 

 as euery one knoweth, paffing either Onions or Leekes, but exceeding wholfome 

 withall for them that can take it. 



Altium Vrjinum. Ramfons. 



Ramfons are another kinde of Garlicke, and hath two or three faire broade leaues, 

 of a frefh or light greene colour, pointed at the end : the ftalke groweth about an 

 hand length high, bearing many fmall and pure white ftarre-like flowers at the toppe, 

 and afterwards fmall, blacke, and fmooth round feede : the roote is alfo diuided into 

 many parts, whereby it is much encreafed, and is much milder then the former, both 

 in fmell and tafte. 



The Vfe of Garlicke. 



It being well boyled in fait broth, is often eaten of them that haue ftrong 

 ftomackes, but will not brooke in a weake and tender ftomacke. 



It is accounted, and fo called in diuers Countries, The poore mans Trea- 

 kle, that is, a remedy for all difeafes. It is neuer eaten rawe of any man that I 

 know, as other of the rootes aforefaid, but fodden alwaies and fo taken. 



Ramfons are oftentimes eaten with bread and butter, and otherwife alfo, 

 as euery mans affeclion and courfe of life leadeth him to vfe. 



CHAP. XL VI. 

 Rapunculus fiue Rapuntium. Rampions. 



GArden Rampions are of two forts, the one greater, the other leffer : the leaues 

 of Rampions are in the one fomewhat broad like a Beete, in the other fome- 

 what long and narrow, and a little broader at the end, of a light greene colour, 

 lying flat vpon the ground all the firft winter, or yeare of the fpringing, and the next 

 Spring fhooteth forth ftalkes two or three foote high, bearing at the toppe, in the big- 

 ger fort, a long flender fpike of fmall horned or crooked flowers, which open their 

 brimmes into foure leaues ; in the lefler many fmall purplifh bels, (landing vpon feue- 

 rall fmall foote-ftalkes, which turne into heads, bearing fmall blackifh feede : the root 

 is white, branched into two or three rootes, of the bignefle and length of a mans fin- 

 ger or thumbe. 



The Vfe of Rampions. 



The rootes of both are vfed for Sallets, being boyled, and then eaten 

 with oyle and vinegar, a little fait and pepper. 



CHAP. XL VI I. 

 Tragopogon. Goates beard. 



G Gates beard hath many long and narrow leaues, broader at the bottome, and 

 fharper at the end, with a ridge downe the backe of the leafe, and of a pale 

 greene colour ; among which rifeth vp a ftalke of two or three foote high, 

 fmooth and hollow, bearing thereon many fuch like leaues, but fmaller and fhorter, 

 and at the toppe thereof on euery branch a great double yellow flower, like almoft 

 vnto the flower of a Dandelion, which turneth into a head, ftored with doune, and 

 long whitifh feede therein, hauing on the head of euery one fome part of the doune, 



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