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i'ary, and fo put up the Womb, it provoke 
Terms, 
XX. The Afkes of the Stalks. They are wonder* 
fully drying and piercing, fo that they almoft be- 
come Cauftick ; being mixed with Hogs Lard, the 
mixture is very effetlual to anoint the iides and 
Stomach of fuch, who have of a long time been 
pained in thofe parts, or in any other place, where 
the pain atifes from the oppreflion of the Spleen, or 
excefs of the Melancholly Humor, by helping’ to 
digeft it, and difcuffing flatulencies. 
XXI. The Seed. Being bruifed and drunk, it kills 
Worms, as Galen fays : it alfo takes away freckles 
of the Face, and other parts of the Skin, Sunburn- 
ings, Tanning, Scurf, Morphew, and other Defor- 
mities thereof Athena us alfo lays, that it takes 
away Drunkennefs. 
XXII. The Sallet. The fourth fort eaten raw, be- 
ing chopt fmall, and drefs’d up with Vinegar, Oil 
Salt, and Muftard, ftrengthen the Stomach, ’caufe 
a good Appetite, preferve from Drunkennefs, and 
caufe a good Digeftion. The firft kind, or any of 
the reft, being boiled with Meat till they are foft, 
then chopt fmall, and drefs’d up with melted But- 
ter, Vinegar and Salt, become an admirable Sallet 
for fuch as have weak Stomachs, or are going into 
a Confumption, have dim Eyes, are affefted with 
the Spleen, Flatulencies or Melancholly, or are trou- 
bled with Tremblings of the Limbs, or the Palfie. 
The Ancient Romans thought them to be effeflual 
againft all Difeafes of the Body, whether Inward or 
Outward, for which teafon Chryfippus wrote a whole 
Volume of their Virtues, applying them to all parts 
of the Body. And that the Senate of Rome having 
expell’d all the Phylicians out of their Territories 
for the fpace of fix hundred Years, did for all that 
length of time, preferve and maintain their health 
againft the affaults of all Difeafes, by the only ufe 
ofthele Plants. 
worts. Thefe Hovers have a much pleafanter talk 
than either Coleworts or Cabbages of any kmi and 
therefore are the more Valuable ar for Food. ’ 
\f lowers 
CHAP. CXLIW 
Of COLE-FLOWER. 
I' '“P H E Names. I cannot find that this Plant 
X was ever known to the Greeks ; for which 
reafon it has no Greek name : or yet that the An- 
cient Romans had any knowledge thereof : but our 
Modern Authors call it in Latin , Braffica florid, 
Caulis, florida, Cauli flora, Braffica Cypria, in Engtifh 
Cole Flowers, and Colic-Flowers. ’ 
II. The Kinds It is a lingular Plant, but is cer- 
tainly one of the Kinds of Coleworts : and that Spe- 
cies, which Pliny lib. 19. cap. 8. calls Braffica Pom - 
peiana. 
III. The Defcription. It hoe a Root fpread out 
into feveral pretty thick Branches, which are full of 
Fibres or Strings , from which faring forth divers 
large Leaves, which are large , of a mhitifh green co- 
lor ; very like to Cabbage Leaves, /lightly indented 
about the edges, yet f mailer, narrower fomemhat and 
Jharper pointed than thofe of Cabbage ; In the midi} 
of which Leaves, fometimes m the beginning of Au- 
tumn, and fometimes fooner , there rtfes up a great 
white Head of white hard Flowers clofely thru ft to- 
gether, feme, imes they are of a Milk, or Cream, or 
yellowifh white color : thefe never open or fpread 
much with us, and are then fittefl for the Table, the 
green Leaves being cut away clofe to the Head: tn 
all the other parts, the Plant is like to the Cole- 
IV. T&? Places. They grow in moft parts of Eu- 
rope but very plentifully in England, Scotland and 
ody nourilhed up in Gardens. 
• j* ■/. Eolle-floz^er muft be planted 
n^/maBed ofhot Horfe-dung, and covered 
01 thC ^ t0 kee P !t from cold and 
frofty Mornings 5 and having gotten about fix 
Leaves, then it is to be removed into the place 
where you defign it fliall grow. The Flowers are 
ln “ “Oft °f the Summer Months. 
VI. The Qualities, Specification , Preparations and 
rtrtues are the fame with Cabbages and Coleworts 
of which we have already fpoken in Cap. tot. and’ 
I |5- aforegoing, to which you are referred : onlv 
take this Note, That for the Table and Food this 
is much the more excellent and noble Plant. Note 
alfo That being boiled in Milk, and then eaten 
with Sweet frelh Butter, and Salt, and Juice of Li- 
mons, they have been found to reftore admirably in 
CHAP. CXLV. 
Of COLEWORT Wild. 
and in 
L 'T' HE Barnes. It is called in Greek 
-- J? fat in, Braffica Sylvejlris 
Englifh , Wild. Colewort. 
U ; Ir is a lingular Plant, and the fe- 
c °m V? eS r^ Eoleworts^ being the Wild Kind. 
111. The Defctiption. It has a Root pretty thick 
Jpread into fome Branches , with feveral Fibres ad * 
joining , white , hard , and fomewhat woody from 
whence rfe up feveral Leaves , and one principal 
otalk. I be Leaves are long and broad , not much 
unlike 
