100 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



roots of laser, as a cure for the head-ache, 

 and many other complaints, not even omit- 

 ting the gout. 



Erasistratus, and all his school, resounded 

 again (says Pliny) with the praises of cole- 

 wort, and averred, that there was nothing in 

 the world better for the stomach, and nothing 

 more wholesome for the sinews ; they, there- 

 fore, prescribed it for the palsy, and all 

 tremblings of the limbs, and those that retch 

 up blood. 



It was observed by the ancients, that this 

 vegetable was light of digestion, and that it 

 clarified all the senses, when ordinarily eaten. 



Gerard is the oldest English author who 

 has written fully on this useful vegetable ; 

 he mentions the white cabbage cole, the red 

 cabbage cole, the curled garden cole: the 

 Savoie cole is, he says, numbered among the 

 headed coleworts or cabbages : he notices the 

 curdled Savoy, but says the " Swolen cole- 

 wort of all others is the strangest, and which 

 I received from a worshipfull marchant of 

 London, Master Nicholas Lete, who brought 

 the seed out of France ; who is greatly in 

 love with rare and faire flowers and plants; 

 for which he doth carefully send into Syria, 

 having a servant there at Alepo, and in many 



