c lhe Kjtchcn Cjarden. 5 
The ordinary Garden Turnep hath many large, and long rough greene leaues, with 
deepe and vneuengafhes on both fides of them : theftalke rifeth vp among theieaucs 
about two footc high, fpread at the toppe into many branches, bearing thcron yellow 
flowers, whic h tut nc into long pods, with blackifh round feede in them : the roote is 
round and white, fome greater, home fmaller ; the belt kinde is knowne to be flat, with 
a fmall pigges tale-like roote vnderneath it ; the worfer kinde which is more common 
in many places of this land, both North and Weft, is round, and not flat, witha grea- 
ter pigges tayle-like roote vnderneath. 
The yellow kinde doth often grow very great, it is hardly difeerned from the ordi- 
nary kinde while it groweth, but by thegreatnefleand fpreading of the leaues beeing 
boy led, the roote changeth more yellow, fomewhat neare the colour of a Carrot. 
The red T urnep groweth vfually greater then any of the other, efpecially in a good 
ground, being of a faire red colour on the outfide, but being pared, as white as any o- 
ther on the infide. This, as Matthiolus faith, doth grow in the Countrey of Anania, 
where hee hath feene an infinite number of them that haue waighed fifty pound a 
peece, and in fome places heefaith, a hundred pound a pcece, both which we would 
thinke to be incredible, but that we fee the kind is greatly giuen to grow, and in warme 
Countries they may fo thriue, that the bulke or bignefle of the roote may fo farrepaffe 
thc.gr.owth of our Countrey, as that it may rifeto that quantity aboue fpecified. 
The Navew gentle is of two kindes, a fmaller and a greater ; the! mailer is vfually 
called in France, Nnveaa de Ctnc, the roote is fomewhat long with the roundnefle • 
this kinds is twice as bigge as a mans thumbe, and many of themlefle : The other is 
long and great, almoft as big as the (bort Carrot, but for the moftpartof an vneuen 
length, and roundneffe vnto the very end, where it fpreadeth inte diuers fmall long 
fibres : neyt her of them doth differ much from the Turnep, in leafe, flower or feed. 
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TheVfeof Turneps. 
Being boy led in fait broth, they all of them eate moft kindly, and by rea- 
fon of t heir fweetnefle are muc^eftcemed,and often feene as a difh at good 
mens tables : but the greater quantiticof them are fpent at poore mens 
feafts. They nourifli much, and engender moift and loofe 8dTi,and are very 
windy. The feede of the Navew gentle is (as I take it) called of Andro- 
machus in the compofition of hisTreakle, Buni.rs dslcu : for Diofcorides 
and Plinie doe both fay, that the feede of the tame Bunias or Napus is put 
into Antidotes, and not the feede of the wilde, which is more Iharpe and 
bitter; neyrher the feede of the Turnep, which is called in Greeke yydtdi 
in Latine Rapum, becaufe thefeede is not fweete. 
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Chap. XLIL 
Ziphanm. Raddifli. 
T Here arc two principali kindcsof Garden Raddifli, the one is blackifh on the 
outfide, andtheotherwhite ; and of both thefc there is fome diuifionagaine, 
as (hall be (hewed. Dittander and horfc Raddifh be reckoned kinds thereof. 
The ordinary Raddifli hath long leaues,vneuenly gafhed on both (ides, theftalke ri- 
feth vp to the height of three or foure foote, bearing many purplifh flowers at the top, 
made of foure leaues a peece, which turnc into tfiicke and (hort pods, wherein are con- 
tained round feede, greaterthen Turnep or Cole worte feede, and of a palereddifh 
colour : the roote is long, white, and of a reddifli purple colour on the outfide toward 
thetoppeof it, and of a iharpe biting tafte. 
There is a fmall kind of Raddifli thatcommeth earlierthen the former, that we haue 
Jiad out of the low Countries, not differing in any thing elfe. 
The blacke Raddifli I haue had brought me out of the lowe Countries, where they 
fell them in fome places by the pound, and is accounted with them a rare winter fallet: 
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