THE SECOND BOOKE OF 
THE HISTORIE OF PLANTS: 
Containing the defcription , place, time , names ^nature, and 
venues of all forts of Herbes for meate, medicine, 
or Jvceet fmelling vfe, &c. 
Ehaue in our fird booke diffidently defcribed the Grades, Rudies, 
Flags, Corne,and bulbous rooted Plants, which for the mod part are 
fuchas with their braue and gallant floures decke and beautifie Gar- 
dens, and feed rather the eyes than the belly. Now there rcmaine cer- 
taine other bulbes, whereof the mod (though not all) ierue for food': 
of which vvewill alfo difeourfe in the fird place in this booke, diuiding 
them in fuch fort, that thofe of one kinde (hall be feparated from ano- 
ther, f In handling thefe and fuch as next fucceed them, we fhall treat 
ofdiuers, yea the mod part of thofe Herbes that the Greekcs call by a 
gencrall name •. and the Latines, olera : and we in Engli(h,SalIet- 
herbes. When we haue pad ouer thefe, we fhall fpeake of other plants, as they fhall haue rcfe*n- 
blancc each to other in their externall forme, d 
Chap.i. Of Turneps . 
f[ The Kindes . 
* f 'Here be fundry forts of Turneps ; fome wilde ; feme of the garden; fome with round roots 
A globe falhion •, other ouall or peare faihion •, and another fort longifh or fomwhat like a Ra- 
dt(h : and of all thefe there are fundry varieties, fome being great, and fome ofafmallor fort. 
7 be Defcription, 
1 ^j C ^ urne P ^ ;lt ^ l° n 8 r0l, gh and greene leaues, cut or fnipt about the edges with 
-tM Ik? 3 ° eC ^ e S a fhes.The dalke diuideth it felfe into fundry branches or armes, bearing 
at the top fmall floures of a yellow colour, and fometimes of a light purple ; 
. , , which being pad, there do fucceed long cods full of fmall blackifh feed like rape 
feed. The root is round like a bow le, and fomerimes a little dretched out in length, growing very 
lhadowm tire ground, and often (hewing it (elfe aboue the face of the earth. 
, ^ * This is like the precedent in each refped, but that the root is not made fo globous or 
oowle-tafh toned as the former, but (lendcrer, and much longer, as you may perceiue by the figure 
wee here giue you. f 
3 The (mall Turnepislikevntothe fird delcribed, fatting that it is lefler. The root is much 
fwceter in tade, as my felfe hath often proued. 
4 There is another fort of fmall Turnepfaid to haue red roots; t and there are other-fome 
whole- roots are yellow both within and without; fomealfoare greene on the outfide, and other- 
fome blackifh. d >03 
The Piece. 
The Turnep profpereth wel ina light, loofe, and fat earth, and fo !oofe,as Petrut Crtfeentius frith. 
that 
