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the Alabandian Hempe for goodneffé,is that of Mylafium.Butif you goe to thetalnefle,thereis 
about Rofeain the Sabines countrey,Hempeashighastrees. | teieaisieanalie 
Astouching the two kinds of Ferula,[ have fpoken of them in my difcourfe of forrain plants. 
The feed of Ferula or Fennell-geant, is counted good meat in Italie : for it is put up in pots of 
earth well ftopped,and will continue a whole yeare.And of twoforts is this preferved Compoft, 
to wit,the Sralkes,andthe Bunches whiles they be knit round and notbroken and fpread abroad, 
Andasthey call thefe knobs which they doe condite and keepe, C orymbi; fo chat Ferula,which 
is {uffered to rife up in ftem for to bearefuch heads,they tearme Corymbias.. 4...) 
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o& The maladies incident te Garden hearbes, T he remedies against Pifmires; Canker. 
wormes and Gnats. a ft gon 
He hearbes of the garden be fubject to diverfe accidents, & namely, difeafessas well as corn 
( § and other fruits of the earth.Fornotonely Bafill by age doth degenerat from the ownena- 
ture into wildcreeping Thyme, but Sifymbrium alfo into Calaminth, The feed of an ald 
Cole-wort will bring forth Turneps: and contrariwife, fow the feed of an old Rape and Turnep, 
you fhall have Colewortscome up of it.Cumin.if itbe not kept neat and trim with much clean- 
fing, will begin to decay at one fide of the ftalkebeneath, anddie. Now hath Cumin but one 
onely ftalke,anda root bulbous in manner of an Onion: itgroweth not butin alight and leane 
foile Ocherwife,the peculiar difeafe appropriat to Cumin,is a kind of fcurte or {cab.. Alfo Bafil, 
toward the rifing of the Dogge-ftar,waxeth wan and pale. And generally there is nor an hearbe 
but will turne yellow, if a woman come neere unto it whiles thee hath her monthly ficknefle yp- 
on het. | 
Moreover,there be diverfe forts of little beafts or vermine engendred in the garden among 
the good hearbes. And namely upon the Navewes, you fhall have gnats or flies:1n Radifh roots 
cankerwormes, and other little grubs:Jikewife, in Lectuce and * beet leaves. Andas for thefe 
Beetworts laft named,you fhall fee them haunted with {nailes,as well naked as in fhels.In Leekes 
moreover or Porret there fettle other {peciall vermine that bee noifome tothem feverally, but 
fuch are very foone caught by throwing uponthofe hearbes alittle dung,for to it will they gather 
to fhrowd and hide themfelves, Furthermore,Sabinus Tyre in his booke entituled *Cepuricon, 
which he dedicated to Mecwnas writeth, That it is not good to touch with knife or hooke, Rue, 
Winter Saverie,Mint,and Bafill. The fame Author alfo hath taught usa remedie againft Em- 
mets(which do not the leaft niifcheefe to gardens,when they lie not to have water at command) 
and thatisthis, to take fea mud or oofe and afhes together, to temper a morter of them both, 
and therewith to ftop their holes. But the moft forcible and effectual thing to kill chem, is the 
hearbe called Ruds or Turn-fol. Some are of opinion, that the onely meanes to chafethefe ants 
away,is,with water wherein the pouder of afemi-bricke or halfe-baked tiles mingled. And par- 
ticularly, for to preferve Navewes, it is a fingular medicine for them to have Feni-greeke fowed 
among,as alfo for Beets to doe the like with Cich peafe:for this devife will drive away the Can- 
kerworme.But fay that this practife was forgotten,and that the forefaid hearbs be alreadie come 
up what remedie then?Marie,even to feeth VWWormewood and Honifleeke (which the Latinscall 
Sedum,the Greekes Acizoon) and {princkle the decoétion or broth therof among them, Now 
what manner of hearbe this Houfleeke is, I have fhewed you alreadie. Ic is acommon fpeech, 
that if aman takethe feed of Beets and other pot-hearbes, and wet them in the juice of Hou- 
flecke otherwife called Sea-greene,thofe hearbes fhall be fecured againft all thefe hurtful crea- 
tures whatfoever. And generally,no Cankerwormes fhall doc harme to any herbage in the gare 
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den, ifa man pitch upon the pales about a garden the bones ofa Mares head;but he mut be fure — 
it was of a Mare,for a horfe head will not ferve.It is acommon faying alfo,that if a river Crab or 
a Craififhbe hung up in the mids of a garden, it is fingular for that purpofe.Some there are who 
make no more but touch thofe plants which they would preferve from the faid vermin,only with 
twigs of the Dog berie tree,and they hold them warifhed and fafe ynongh. Gnats keepea foule 
ftir in gardens where water runneth through efpecially, and wherein there bee fome {mall trees 
growing : bur thefe are foone chafed away by burning alittle Galbanum. i 
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