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and hearbsin manner of the Garden, there bee both wild andtame :fois there ofGourdsand G 
Loren Cucumbers both, a certain *favagekind.Such are notfor the kitchin, but forthe Apothecaries 
% Colnthi, Lnop,and good onely in Phyficke: and therefore I will pucoff for this prefent, the difeourfe of — 
or, Colguine them andtheir nature, referving them for their feverall treatifesin other booksiconcerhing fuch 
eS medicinable fimples. : ; ii {iis 2QS3 ae 
Astouching the reft of Garden-plants, which are of the like cartilageand pulpousfubftance, 
they be all the fort of them, roots growing hidden withinthe ground among which, I might 
feemeto have written alreadie fully and fufficiently of Rapes and Turneps, but that the Phyfici- 
ans have obferved in them both fexes,towit, mafculine & foeminine : for the rounder kind they 
will have to be the male; but the broaderand flatterfort, which alfo are fomewhat:hollow;they 
account the female: and thefelaft,they holdtobe thebetter far aud:mote pleafant; as beingea- 
fier to be kept and-condite : which alfo, ifthey be often remooved and replanted, willturn to be 
males, Phyficians likewife have fer downe five kindsiof Navews, namely , the Corinthian, the 
Cleonzan,the Liothafian, the Boeotian, and that which fimply by itfelfethey calledthe greene 
Navew. Of all thefe; the Corinthian Navews growtoa greatbignefle,and in mannexalltheroer 
is feeng naked above ground : for thisis the only kindthat coveteth to be aloft, and groweth nat - 
downward intothe earth asthereft doe. As for the Liothafian (fome call italfothe Thracian) 
of all others it will abide and endure froft and cold weather beft. Nexttoit, isthe Boeotian Na- 
vew, {weerin taft, differing from thereft in the notable fhortnefle and roundnefle withall that 
the rootcarrieth nothing atalllike tothe Cleonzan,which is pafling long. Generally, thisis 
obfervedasarule, Thatall Navaws, the flenderer, fmaller, and {moother leaves that*they beare, <7 
the more 'pleafantis theirroot tothe taft: and contrariwife, the rougher that they be, the more 
cornered alfo and prickie,the bittererthey are. There isawildkind of them befides, the leaves 
wherofrefemble Rocket. The beft Navewsthatare fold atRome,be thofethat come from‘Ami- 
ternum in Bruzze. Thenextto them in-goodnefle,arethofe of Nurfium, Inthe third place are 
*orrather — theyto be raunged, which our countrey * about Verona yeeldeth. Asconcerningall things els, 
aee: and namely the aranner of fowing them, I have faid enough in the treatife of Rapes or Turneps, 
As forRadifhes, their roots do confift of a rind without, and a cartilage or pulpous fubfance 
within: and verely many of them are knowneto havea thicker skin or rind than the barkeis of 
fome trees: bitter fich are, more orleffe, according to the thicknefle of the faid rind: other- _ 
whiles alfo, the reft is all pith, andas hardaswood, All Radifhes breed wind wonderfull much, * 
_ and provoke a man thateateih them,to belch. A bafe and homely meat therefore itis, and not 
for agentlemans table, efpecially ifit bee eaten with other woorts, as Beets: mary if aman take 
them with unripe olives condite,he fhall neither belch or rift wind fo much, ne yet fo fower and 
ftinking wili his breath be afterwards. The Zgyptians make matveilous great account of Radi- 
fhe’, forthe plentie of oyle that they draw out of the feed :andtherefore a great defire they have 
tofow them if they may: for as they find it more gainfull than corn, fo they pay leffe tribute and 
cuftome, in regard of tharcommoditie;and yet there isnothing yeeldeth more abundanceof 
xTheorhyafin, Olle. * The Greekes have mace three forts of Radithes, differing all in leafe. The firft,crifped and 
writethali this curled like a tuffe; the fecond,finooth and plaine ;the third wild and favadge: and thefe wild ones 
- eee verily havefmooth leaves, but thort and round: plentiful alfo they be,and otherwifefull of bran- 
See how Piiny ches: a tough and harth taft they have; howbeit medicinable they be, and as goodas apurga- 
isoverfeene: tion to loofen the belly & make it laxative. As forthe other two former kinds,a difference there 
eae *° isin the feed: forinfome, it is very faire and good 5 in others, as {mall and bad vhowbeit thefe 
him, umperfections lightupon none butfach as havethe crifped and frizled leaves. * Our countrey- 
eecnes ne men here in Italy have madeother kinds ther@of;to wit, Algiclenfe,fo called of the place ‘long 
apainecaithe they be,tranfparent and cleare, that aman may fee through then A fecond forethere be fathi- 
Radifhindeed. opedin manner of Rape roots, and thofe they call Syriaca, the fweeteft forthe moftpart of all 
others,andtendereft ; fuch alfoas will hold our beftagaintt froft & winter weather. Yet the prin 
cipall and very beftin deed are thofe, which asitfhould {eeme were but lately brought out of 
Syria'(at leaftwife the feed ofthem) for that in no writers there is found any mention made of M - 
thea: and they will continueall winter long. Over and befides.all thefe, there is onefavage kind 
of them more, which the Greekesname Agrion:the inhabitants of Pontus, Armon; others 
Leuce3and our countreymen give it the name of Armoraciaimore fhewit maketh in leafe than 
inthetootorallahe bodie befides, Moreover, the beft token to know good Radifhes by, is oe 
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