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middle towards the edges, there is a Jhow of a brown- 
ifh blufh , or file red color , yet deeper in the mid ft, 
the edges remaining wholly white. TJ)e bottoms of 
all thefe Leaves, are of a dark, or Dun Tawney, 
and the Chives and Tips of a darkifh purple Tawney. 
It feldom bears Seed with us, but when it does, it 
is fmall like to the Bolonian or Narbone Tulips ^ 
nor is it fo plentiful in parting or fetting off by 
the Root as they , and feldom Flowers after the 
firft Tear. 
XVI. The Places. Their Names (hew their 
Native Countries, being Nurft up with us only in 
Gardens. 
XVII. The Times. They are all Prtcoces, and 
Flower here in England, thro 5 all the time of the 
Flowering of the Early Tulips. 
XVIII. The Realities, Specification, Preparations 
and Virtues of thefe, are the fame with thofe de- 
clared at large, in the laft aforegoing Chapter , to 
which you are referred. 
CHAP. DCCXV. 
Of T U R N E P Carden. 
I. t ~T*'HE Names. It is called in Greek Toyyvrn : 
JL of the Lacedemonians, I W? : of the 
Boetians, : in Latine, Rapum, pi. Rapa -, 
and in Engliih, Turnep, and Turneps. 
II. The Kinds. There are 1. The Garden Kinds, 
of which in this Chapter. 1. The Wild Kinds, of 
which in Chap. 716. next following. Of the Gar- 
den Kinds there is 1. Rapum rotundum album com- 
mune, The common white round Turnep. 2. Ra- 
pum rotundum rubrum commune. The common red 
round Turnep. 3. Rapum longum vulgare. The 
common long Turnep. 4. Rapum lutcum , The 
yellow Turnep. 
Turnep Garden round. 
The Descriptions* 
III. The firft, or common white round Turnep 
Its Root is round, ( fometimes of a Globular , and 
fometimes of a flatter round form,) and of a white 
color both without and within , with a fmall Pigs- 
Tail like Root at its bottom , or underneath it : 
The rounder forts are faid to be the fironger or 
worfer ; the flatter kinds the f wee ter or better 
but there are very good and fweet tafled of both 
forts, from this Root fpring up many large and 
long, rough, green Leaves, with deep and uneven 
Gajhes on both edges -, from among thefe Leaves, 
rife s up the Stalk, about two Feet high, fpread at 
top into many Branches, bearing thereon yellow 
Flowers, which turn into long Pods, with blackifh 
round Seed in them. 
IV. The fecond, or common red round Turnep. 
Its Root is of a fair red color on fome parts of the 
outfide, the other parts being white like the for- 
mer, but of a pure white color throughout within, 
as the firft aljo is. This in its Leaves, Stalks , 
Flowers and Seed, is exalt ly like the firft Defcribed , 
but its Root is larger. Tl)is Matthiolus fays, 
grows in the Country of Anamia, (where he had 
J'een an infinite number of them ) to fuch a bignefs , 
as to have weighed Fifty Pounds weight a piece , 
and fome an Hundred Pounds weight, ( which is 
almoft incredible) but we fee this kind is apt to 
grow very big with us in our cold Climate and 
therefore poffibly it may grow or extend it felf to 
a far greater Magnitude in thofe warmer Climates , 
the Soil being alfo agreeable to its Nature, and fa- 
cilitating fuch an extraordinary Produllion. 
V. The third, or common long Turnep. Its 
Root is round, but not Globular, and long, almoft 
in fome like a Cylinder, and in others more peaked 
or Spear- like, being of a white color both on the out- 
fide and inflde. The Leaves, Stalks, Flowers and 
Seed, are like to thofe of the firft defcribed. 
VI. The fourth, or yellow Turnep. Its Root is 
like to the firft common kind, but changes to be more 
yellow, and in fome comes near to the color of a 
yellow Carrot ■, otherwife whilft it is growing, in 
refpett to its Leaves, Stalks, Flowers, and Seed , it 
is hard to be difeerned from the firft common Gar- 
den Kind. 
VII. The Places. The Turnep is a Manured 
Plant, and grows with us only in Gardens, or 
Fields kept on purpofe for the fame. Thofe which 
grow at Hackney, near London, are lelfer than ma- 
ny others, and are thought to be fweeter than any 
of the other Kinds which grow in England. They 
delight in a far and fandy, light, looleEarth, and 
there grow well. 
VIII. The Times. They are Sown in the Spring, 
as alfo in the end of Auguft. They Flower and 
Seed the fecond Year after they are Sown. Ger- 
ard fays, that thofe which Flower the firft Year 
are a degenerate Kind, which the People about 
Namptwich in Chefhire, call Mad-neps, from their 
evil Qualities, in caufing a Vertigo and Frenzie, 
or kind of Madnefs for fome little while. But 
Parkinfon fays, that thefe Mad-neps are a Species 
of the Parfnep, as we have declared in Chap. 744. 
Sell. 7. aforegoing of this Book. 
IX. The Qualities. The Roots are hot and 
moift in the firft degree. Aperitive, Digeftive, 
Anodyn, Difcuftive, Suppurative, PeCtoral, Ne- 
phritick, Chylifick and Analeptick. The Seed is 
hot and dry in the third degree, Aperitive, At- 
tractive, Digeftive, Diuretick, Stomatick, FeCto- 
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