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Show 1 OF HISTORWE OF' PLANTS, 775 Pepomaxtrnss whichis as yet a {tranger, g % Thetime. / They af¢.plantedat the beginning of ApH: theyflower in Augitt: the fruire is ripe in Sep. tember, ( Lee % The ames, 2B ; The*Melon or Pompion‘is. ntined“in Gteeke mrwre-ith Latine likewile Pepa ‘The ftilites ofthe m al whenthey be tipeare called by a-common naire in Greekeatrs:inEnglith Millions or Pompio ns, Wheseupon certaine Phifitions fiith Gah hane contcaded, that this fiuit ought tobe called awe. mawr, thatis to fayit Latine, Repo Crtnmeralis, Or Cucumber Pompionep/my inhis'g Hidoke 5,cHaps ter wpiteth; that Gatumeres when /theyexceede iri greathellé;arenamied Lepones, Iviscalled. in high Dutch 49ltiket ¢ta-lowe Dutch JOeBoCNR NA French Pompons. oy The temperature andverties. Allthe Melons areof-a coldn , withplen- Al tie of moifture : they hauea cer fi : ‘litie, by meanes wheteof-theyprot do morefpeedily palte through the bo cither she Gourd, Citrull, or Cucumber, as Galen hath Written, ‘ Thepulpeofthe Pompiotis neueredten raw,but boiled, For foit doth tadre eafily defcend, ma. B iggy ble. The noarithmene which commieth heréofi s beele;thi trio and'colde(bad, sag )andt at elpecially wheniris norwell digefted : by reafon whereof it maketha man tldteadie to fallintothe dileate calledithe Cholérikepaf fionandofiome the Felonie. Hvahae sett morethanthemeate, itprouo kethivrine, andis good for thof thar aretrou -C oe eftone of the kidncies, : Nee uitboiled in milke and buttered, is not onely agood wholefome meate for mans bodie? D aan 8 OPtepared, is alfo a moft phificall medicine for firch as hate an hot omack e, and thé Patts inflamed, “ RabyPeofthe fame fliced and fried in'apan with butter,ts alfo'a SSeanaeoae E xadig ries apples.in an oueny it doth fill the bodie full of flatuous or win te belchings, thing hurceth thaY vnwholefome for fuchas line idly; but vato robuftions and’ riftitke people, t filleth the be lly. Ofwilde Lompions., : Chap.331. % The defcription. ; A pier 18a wilde fort ofCucumbers, ofilons, Citruls and Gourds,folikewife there be et Se wilte Pompions; thatbe{o oftheir own nature, ‘Thefe bring foorth rough ftalks, teatden fharp t 1ornyprickles, The leaues be likewife rough: the flowersyellow as bethofe a elon, but cucty partis leffer, Thefiniteis thicke,round,andfharpe pointedhaving » The pulpe or meate whereof, and the middle pith, withthe feede are like thofe 1)Pion, but very bitterin tafte. : Suke vato the former,butisis altogitherleffer, wherein confifteththedifference! Ccc 4 1 Pépo ee % Theplace. All thefe-Melons or Ponipions bee garden planes: they ioy beftin a fruicfilll foile, and/ate common in England’; except the laft defcribed, SEAS cpa BOOKE ra Ee THE?SECOND > DO MIAN IPAS |