PIfnies Natural! Hiftorie* 



A mundificthtbeeicsjandcleareththe fight, efpeciaJIy being tempered with brcafl-milke. If chc 

 ivcather be coldjthey arc thought not onely to thrive in bignefle of the root^ but dlfoto proove 

 the fwecterj whereas coiltrariwde in a warme(ea(bn they run up all toflaike and leafe. The beft 

 fimply are thofe that grow in theHurfine territorie. For they are fold by the weight : and everie 

 pound is worth a RomaneSeftecce5yea3andothGrwhilesrwaiiie5if therc beanyfearcitieofthem* 

 •Next tothefe in goodnes be thofe that comeout of Algidurii. Thus much of Rapes or Navews. 



As for the Turneps of Amiternum^they'bee in a manner of the famenatdie that the Rapes 

 aforefaidjand cold they love as well.Sowhethey are before the Ga^Iends of M^^cli : & four qtiarts 

 of their feed will take up a wholeacrc of ground* The beft Husbandmen , and fuch as are more 

 cxquifite in their pradife of Agricultures giveorder^Th at the ground forTurneps iliould have 



B five tilthesjwhereas Rapes or Navewes are content with foure.-but both the one & the other had 

 need of a foilc well enriched with dung or compoft.By their fayings alfo. Rapes will profper the 

 better and come up thickerjif they belbwediniheir hulsjchaffe and all together-Moreoverathey 

 would have the feeds-man to be naked when hefovseth them^and in fowing to protettjThat this 

 which he doth is for himlelfe and his neighbours,and withal to pray as he gocth.The proper Tea- 

 fonforthe feednesof them both^ is betwccnc the feaftsof thetwogods^ towit, and 

 Vulcane, ,^ ' : 



To conclude^there is a fubtile and curious obfervation that many go by and doe liold,name- 

 Jy thiSjTo marke how many daies old the Moone was, when the firil Snow leil the Winter next 

 before ifor if a man doe fowRapes or Turneps, within the forefaid compaflc of that time, the 



Q Moone being fo many daies old,they will come to be wonderous greatjand encrcafe exceeding- 

 ly .Men ufe CO fow them alfo in the Spring: but then they make choile oi moili and hote groundso 



C H AP. X 1 1 1 I. 



^ of Lupines » 



AFter Rapes and Turneps, the Lupines have greateft ufe, and dcferve to be raungcd next : 

 forthatthey indifFcrendyferve both men and alfo all foure footed beads that be houfed, 

 ' either whole or cloven. Now forthattheftalkeisvery fliittlein mowing, and therefore 

 flycth from the edge of the iyth, the onely remedie therefore (that the mower may catch it) is 

 D to go to worke prefently after a good fhowre. And verily there is not a plant growing upon th« 

 earth (I meane of fuch as are fowne of leed) more admirable than theLupine, in regard cf the 

 great amitic and fympathie betweene the earth and it. Looke how the funne keepcth his courfe 

 in out Horizon above,fo doth it turne and goewiihall^ info much as the husbandmen of the 

 countrey goby no other clocke to know how the day padethjin clofe and clowdie weather, than 

 this obfervation. Moreover, it hath three feafons of blowming :it loveth the earth well, butycE 

 willingly it would not be covered over with mould : for this is the onely feed that isfownc upon 

 ground without any ploughing or digging :it would grow tochufe, in a moft gravellyjdrie, and 

 fandiefoile^ and in no cafe can it abide any tending or husbandrie about it : fo affeded is it to the 

 carthjthat caft it upon any rough ground,among buflies,leavcs,bners Snd brambles, it will chic 

 E and (purt neverthclcffc,and never lin till it take root within the earth.If Lupines be fowed either 

 in vineyards or upon come lands,they enrich the fame and make the ground better, as we have 

 before written : and fo litde need have they of dung, that they ftand in itead of the very beft. To 

 fay a truth, there is no graine leffe chargeable to bee fowne^ tlian it j nay there is none cofleth 

 nought at all,but it jfor it needeth not fo much as to be brought into the field : and why ? it fow- 

 cth it fclfe prefently in the fame field where it grew ; and (bedding a^ it doth of the owne accord, 

 a man never needs tocaftand throw it upon the land, as othcrcorne.lt is firftfowne, and laft 

 gathered : and lightly both thcfe feafons tall out in tlie moneth of September ; for if the Seed- 

 nes prevent not the winter, fo as it may have good root before it commeih, itv^ill beeindaun- 

 ger of the cold, Ovcrand befides, if itchaunceio lie. bare and uncovered above-ground, left 

 F careleflely without any keeping, and that no rain come upon it prefently for to drive it into the 

 ground, it is fate enough and catcheth noharmejforfobittcritisjthatno living creature will 

 touch it :and yet tor the moft part the husbandmen beftowa light furrow upon it, and fo cover 

 it very iliallow.Ifthe ground be faft and heavic, it loveth that bcft which ftandethupon a red 

 clay. And for the maintaining and enriching ot this kind oi foile^ it muft be turned up or eared 



