The Kitchen (garden. 
Chap.LV. 
Pep». Pompions. 
E hauebutonekindeof Pompion(asItakeit)inall our Gardens, not- 
withftanding the diuerfities of bignefle and colour. 
The Pompion or great Melon (or as fome call it Milion) creepeth vp- 
on the ground (if nothing bee by it whrceon it may rake hold andclitnbe) with very 
great, ribbed, rough, and prickly branches , whereon arc fet very large rough leaues 
cut in on the edges with deepe galh'es, and dented befides , with many clafpersalfo* 
which winde about eucry thing they meete withall : the flowers are great and large* 
hollow and yellow, diuided at the brims into flue parts, at the bottome of which, as it 
isinrhereft, groweththeftuit, which is very great , fometimesof the bignefle of a 
mans body, and oftentimes lefle, in fome ribbed or bunched, in others plaine,and ei- 
ther long or round, either green of yellow, or gray, as Nature lifleth to fhew her felfe - 
for it isbut wafte time, to recite all the formes and colours may be obferued in them • 
the inner rinde next vnto the outer is yellowifh and firme : the feedeis great, flat , and 
white, lyiug in the middle of the watery pulpe : the roote is ofthe bignefle of a mans 
.chumbe or greater, difperfed vnder ground with many fmall fibres ioyned thereunto. 
Gourds are kindesof Melons j but bccaufe wee haueno vfeof them, wcelcauc 
them vmo their fit place. 
They are boyled in faire water and fait, or in powdered beefe broth , or 
fometimes in milke,and fo eaten, orelfe buttered . They vfe likewifc to take 
outthc inner watery fubftance with the feedes , and fill vp the place with 
Pippins , and hauing laid on the couer which they cutoff from the toppe, 
to take out the pulpe, shey bakethem together, and thepooreof the Citie, 
as well as the Country people,doe eatc thereof, as of a dainty difh. 
The feede hereof, as well as of Cowcumbers and Melons , are cooling,* 
and feme for emulfions in the like manner for Almond milkes,&c.for thofe 
are troubled with the ftone. 
T Herebcdiuers forts of Strawberries, whereof thofetbatare nourfed vp in Gar- 
dens or Orchards I intend to giue you the knowledge in this place, andleaue 
the other to a fitter ; yet I muft needs fhew you of one ofthe wilde forts, which 
for his ftrangeneffeis worthy of this Garden : And I muft alfo enformeyou , that the 
wilde Strawberry that groweth in the Woods is our Garden Strawberry, but bettered 
by the foyleand tranfplanting. 
The Strawberry hath his leaues elofed together at the firft fpringing vp , which af- 
terwards fpread themfeluesinto three diuided parts or leaues, eucry one (landing vpon 
a fmall long foote-ftalke,greene on the vpperfide , grayifh vnderneath , and fnipped 
or dented about the edges ; among which rife vp diuers fmall ftalkes, bearing foure or 
fiue flowers at the tops, confiding of flue white round pointed leaues , fomewhatyel- 
lowifh in the bottome, with fome yellow threads therein ; after which come the fruit, 
made of many fmall graines fet together, like vnto a fmall Mulberry or Rafpis, red- 
ciifh when it is ripe, and ofa pleafant winy tafte, wherein is enclofed diuers fmall blac* 
kifh feede: the roote is reddifh and long, with diuers fmall threads at it, and fendeth 
The Vfe of Pompions. 
Chat. LVI. 
Frs£trU. Strawberries. 
forth 
