3 1 6 
Of the Hiilorie of Plants. 
'IB. 2. 
14 The fmall cut Colewoort hath very large leaues, wonderfully cut, hackt and hewen euen 
to the middle rib, refembling a kinde of curled parfley,that ihall be defcribed in his piace, (which 
is not common nor hath not beene knowne nor defcribed vntill this time ) very well agreeing with 
the laft before mentioned, but differeth in the curious cutting and iagging of the leaues: in ftalke 
floures and feed not vnlike. 
t id Braflicaffliieftris. 15 Sea Colewoort hath large and broad leaues 
Wilde Colewoorts. very thicke and curled, and fo brittle that they 
cannot be handled without breaking, of anouer- 
vvorne greene colour, tending to grayneife: a- 
mong which rife vp ftalkes two cubits high, bea- 
ring linall pale floures at the top ; which being 
part theirfollovv round knobs wherein is contai- 
ned one round feed and no more, blacke of co- 
lour, of the bigneife of a tare and a fetch : $ And 
therefore Pena and Lobell called it Braflica marina 
monojpermos . ^ 
11? The vvilde Colewoort hath long broad 
leaues not vnlike to the tame Colewoort, but 
lefler, as is all the reft of the plant, and is of his 
ovvne nature wilde, and therefore not iought after 
as a meate, but is fowen and husbanded up on 
ditch bankes and fuch like places for the feeds 
lake, by which oftentimes great gaine is gotten. 
wp The Place. 
The greateft fort of Colewoorts doe grow in 
gardens, and doe lone a foile which is fat and 
throughly dunged and well manured : they doe 
beft profper when they be remooued, and every 
of them grow in our Englifli gardens, except the 
vvilde, which groweth in fields and new digged 
ditch banks. 
The fea Colewoort groweth naturally vpon 
thebaycheand brims of the fea, where there is no 
earth to bcefeene, but find and rovvling pibble 
ftones, which thofe that dwell neere the fea doe call Bayche: I found it growing betweene Whyt- 
ftable andthelleof Thanet neere the brinke of the fea, and in many places neere to Colchefter 
and elfewhere by the fea fide. 
The Time. 
Petrus Crefcemius faith that the Colewoort may bee lowen and remooued at any time of the 
yeerejwhole opinion I altogether miflike. It is fowen in the fpring, as March, April!, and often- 
times in May, and (bmetimes in Auguft, but the fpecialltime is about the beginning of Sep- 
tember. 
The Colewoort, faith Columella , muft beremoued when it attaineth to fix leaues, after it is 
come vp from feed ; the which muft be done, inAprillor May, efpecially thofe that were fbwne 
in Autumne^which afterwards flourillr in the winter moneths,at what time, they arefitteftfor 
meate. 
But the Sauoy- Cole, and the Cole florey, nmft be fovvnein Aprill, in abed of hot horfedung, 
andcouered withdraw or fuch like, to keepe it from the cold, and frofty mornings ; andwhenit 
hath gotten fix leaues after this fort, then fhall you remoue him as aforefaid, otherwise if you tar- 
ry for temperate weather before you fow, the yeare will be fpent, before it come toripenell’e. 
The Thames. 
Euery of the Colewoorts, is called in Greeke by Diofcorides and Galen , it is alfo called 
1 fo named, not only becaufe it driueth away drunkennefle, but alfo for that it is like in co- 
lour to the precious ftone called the Amethyft : which is meant bythefirft and garden Cole- 
vvoort. The Apothecaries and the common Herbarifts doe cal! it Cattlis, of the goodneifeofthe 
ftalke : in the Germane tongue it is called feOOle fetSUt : in French, desChoux : inEnglifh, 
Colewoorts. 
Cole- florey is called in Latine Braflica Cjpria , and Cauli flora : in Italian, Caiiliflore : it feemetlr to 
agree with Braflicapompeiana of Pliny, vvhereofhe writeth in his 19. booke, ana 8. chapter. ^ ^ 
