200 The Tra5iical Kitchen Gardiner, 



^ rapumy OMraupum, bccaufe it grows 

 above ground, as Varro tcilitics , and 

 in like manner preVo^, from the Greek 

 of Athenaus'^ but as Diofcorides inti- 

 mates, it is from yoyyvXog, tile orbicular 

 or rotund figure of the root. 



Tho' there were in Tliny\ time no lefs 

 than fix forts of turneps, and of feveral co- 

 lours, fome whereof were fufpeded to be 

 artificial; we have not above three or four 

 that our books fpeak of, or that are cultiva- 

 ted in our gardens 5 and they are the rapiim 

 hiteiimj or yellow turnep 5 the rapum 

 rubrtm, or red turnep; both of them to 

 be found, j?>. 2 3 1. of Gerard:, and p. 508. 

 of 1:^arkinfGn ; to which they add the 

 rapum majtis^ and raptm radice oblongo, 

 the large turnep, and the longeft rooted 

 turnep ; both in j^>. 2 3 3. of Gerard, and 

 509. of Tarkinjorij aforefaid. 



The yellow turnep is generally pre- 

 ferr'd before any of the reil, as being 

 lefs watery, and confcquently more nou- 

 rifhing , but others prefer the red Bo- 

 kemiariy before the yellow, being fweeter 



* Rapum quail raupum quod e terra eruatur. P^arrani, 

 lib. 4.. ling. Lat. At verifimilias a. Gra?co. ^ic7:^(,. Atha- 

 '^jikusy ULi^ cap.z. VoyyvX-Ji. DiofcorideSy lib-. 2. cnp. it^^. 

 A rotunda .crbicularive-radieis figura. Hort. Oxm- 156. 



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