Plinies Naturall Hiftorie, 
A grow into the name and reputation of honour any way.And nowto the putpofe,No ian doub- 
teth, butthata garden fhould lie to a graunge or ferme-houfe, and joine:clofe unto it: asalfo, 
that above all things there fhould bee water atcommaund, from fome river or brooke running 
under,yea,and through it,ifiewere poffible + if not fo,yet that they areto be watered with pit wa- 
ter fed with Spring either drawn up by plain poles,hooks,and bucketss or forced by pumps and 
fuch like,going with the ftrength of wind within enclofed,orels weighed with Swipes & Cranes, 
Moreover, that a garden-plot fhould bee-brokenp and shave the firft digging prefently upon 
the comming of the Weft wind Favonius in the beginning of the Spring’: and forany thing 
that muftbe fown or fetthere,againft Autumne,it oughtto be prepared & drefied readie for to 
receive feeds and féts,foureteene daies after: but for Winter ftuffe,it fhould havea flirting or fe- 
- condtilth and delving before the Winter Sunftead or fhorteft day of the yeare.. Alfo, this isto 
be noted, tharthere would not bea greater plot of ground taken in,empaled and fenced about 
for a garden, than of eight acres or Iugera atthe moft.Nowfor the manuring & ordering there- 
_ of: firit, forthree foot deepethe dung wouldbe tempered and mingled with the mould.itera le 
oughtto be divided in principall quarters: thefamealfo muftbe fet out intofevgrall beds,raifed 
fomwhat high and lying upward, ew Requificitis,thatevery quarter have as well certaine open 
gutters or furrowes drawne about them, as convenient allies betweeneto give both paflage for 
men to come and goe gainely;and alfo.a currant tothe courfe of waterthat (hall bec letin,when 
thefprings befer openorflucesdrawnes : 9-0 A 28oaaT halleo ad yar 
Garden plants and hearbesbe not all commendablein one and the famerefpect. For offome 
the goodneffe lieth onely intheir bulbous and round root: of others contrariwife intheir head 
aloft. Therebe of them that have no part good bur their {tem or maifter ftalke + and there are for 
them againe;the leaves whereof be only eaten. Now,a man thal] have amongft them thofe that 
are wholefome meat,both leafe and ftalke.In fomethefeed or graine,in other the outward pill or 
rindalone of the rootis in requeft. And.as there be thas raft well in the skin ot cartilage 8cgrift- 
ly fubftance without-foorth,{o there are that have eithertheir pulpous carnofiti¢e withinyor elie 
their flefhie coat above,asdaintie. Ail che goodneffe of many of them lieth hidden within the 
earth:and of as manyagaine above the ground : andyet fome there:bee that are all one, as 
good within as without.Some traine along andirunneby the ground growingon end flull as 
they cteepe, as Gourds and Cucumbers. And yerthe fame, as wellas they love to beeneare 
the earth; yetare led upontrailes, and hang thereon, yea,and bee knowne fortorampe upon 
trees : Howbeit, much weightier and better nourifhed bee they that keepe beneath. As forthe 
Cucumber, itis the cartilage fubftanceiof the fruit thereof, that delighteth and pleafeth our 
taft: for of all fruits this propertie it alone hath, that the utmoft rind which it beareth,groweth to 
a very wood when it is onceripe. Within the earth lie hidden and are keprall Winter, Raddi-» 
thes, Navews; Turneps or Rapes, Elecampanealfo after another fort; fo doe Skirworts,and Parfe- 
neps or VVypes. 5g Steet, sac! 
Moreover, this I would advertife the Reader, that when I tearme fomehearbes Ferulacea, I 
meane fuch asrefemble in ftalke Dill or the great Mallawes. For fome writers doe reporty That 
in Arabia there bea kind of Mallowes, whiclrafter they have growne fix or feven months, come! 
to bee in the nature of pretie trees: infomuch,as their ftalkes ftreightwaies ferve in fteadioowal- 
king ftaves. But what fhould I ftand upon this? In Mauritania, by reporrof travellers;neatethe 
frith or arme of the fea adjoining to Lixos, thehead cittie of Fez, where fometimes’(asfolke . 
fay) were the hort-yards and gardens of the Hefperides, not above halfea quarter of a mile 
from the maine Ocean,hardunto thechappell of Hercules (farre more auncient than thataem- 
ple of his, which isin the Ifland Calis) there groweth a Mallow, that is a verietree indeed tin. 
heightit istwentie foot, and. in bodie bigger and thicker than any man-can fadome. Inthiskind 
I meane fortoraunge the Hempe likewife. And as I purpofe to tearme fuch Ferulacea ; fo 
there bee fome others, that 1 will. call Carnofa; fuch as refemble the river or fre(h-water Spun- 
ges, which commonly are feene upon over-floten meddowes, where the water ftandeth. Foras 
touching the fusgous fubftance or callofitieof fome plants, I have alreadie fpoken thereof in 
the Treatife of VVood and Trees, and of theitnature : Likewife in our late difcourfe of another 
. fotrof MufhtoomesahdToad-floolessy Disinbts roanso Vor 
its Gi ae sive i Shaw, 
