Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L 1 b . 2. 
fine lifted earth caft thereon of an handful! thickc. The bed muft be cowered in fundi y places 
with hoopes or poles, to fuftaine the mat or fuch like thing that it muft be couered with in the 
night, and layd open to the Sunhe in the day time. The which being fprung vp, and hauing got- 
ten three Ieaues, you muft replant them abroad in the hotteft place of the garden, and molt fine 
and fertile mold. Thus may you do with Muske-Melons, Cucumbers, and all coid fruits that re- 
quire hafte • for that othervv'ife the froft will ouertake them before they come to fruit-bearing, 
if They may allb be fovven in good mold like its other feeds,and vfually are. f 
Na/lurtinm Tndicum cum fore dr femme, 
Indian Crefl'es with floureand feed. 
The Names] 
Thisbeautifull plant is called in Latine, Nafurtium Indicum in Englifh, Indian Creffes. Al- 
though fome haue deemed it a kinde of CoKuoivulm , or Binde-weed ; yet lam well contented that 
itretaine the former name, for that thefmell and tafte (hew it to be a kinde of Creues. 
ar The Nature and Vermes. 
We haue no certain knowledge of his natureorvertues, but are content to refer it to thckindcs 
of Creffes, or to a further confid'eration. 
C h a p . 1 if . Of Sciatica Crefes. 
The Defcription. 
, C Ciatica Creffes hath many (lender branches growing from a ftalke ofa cubit high, with 
S fntall long and narrow Ieaues like thofe of Garden Creffes. The floures e very ma 
and yellow of colour • the feed-vclfels be little flat chaffie huskes, wherein is the iced 
ofa reddifh gold colour, fliarpe and very bitter in tafte. Therootis fmall, tough, white within 
and yellow of colour 
JWUOUAk lUGItGi vjaiui... - . 
the feed-veffels be little flat chaffie huskes, wherein is the iced 
andwithout,andofabiting tafte. r a,, 
± The plant whofe figure I here giue you in Head of that w ith the narrower Ieaues o out - 
thor, hath Ieaues fomewkat like Rocket, but not fo deepe cut in, being only fmpt about the e 
