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Show 764 THE SECOND BOOKE OF:‘THE whereon do growefinall yellowftarlike lowers. The fruiteficceedeth, fathioned like'a Peare, and of the bignes of a great Warden. The rooteis threddie. betetill they a Oftentimes it fal 5 Cucumis ex Hi fpAIC HC Batts. Spanifh Cucumber, % Thede/cription, ofanightoldd¢,04 > Here hath been ot long fince fent outof Spaine fomefeeds of a rare and beattifull Cucumber, into Argentine acitie of Get. manie, othetwife called trawsborough, which there | ghtacon long tral ' ardto place iniealthoneh ititwere ig braunches, rough and hairy, fet wi th very lar;gerough ates fharpe atey fathionedlike vitothe leaueso heCucumber is name Grectans call ae Ss the gre ease docke: among which comeforth faire yellow flowers growing ‘nakedlie vpontheir tender footefftalkes: the whichbeing paft, the fruite commethinPI ace, ofadocniniaah,ereen on thefattoward dieprovad: yelloweto thefun colours. ——<y warde,ftraked with mane fpotsandlines ofdrs T he pulpe ormeate is hard andfaftlike that ofour Pompion. % The place. Thefe kindes of Cucumbers are planted in gardens in moft countries ofthe world, % The time. According to my promife heeretofote made, I haue tho:ught iit good and conuenient in this place to fer downe,not onelythetime of fowing andfetting of’ Cucum bets, Muskemelons, Citruls,Pompions,Gourdes,and fuchlikes butallo howto feror five all manner and kindes ofother cold feedes,as alfo whatfoeucr ftrange feedesate it vitovs fromthe Indies,or any other hotregions,véde/. Firft of allin the middeft of A rill or fomwhat fooner (ifthe weather be anytthingtempera) ‘inal Gauke to ot bank of hot &newhorfe dungtaken forth off the ftable(ananot the dunghill)ofane i th,and the like in depth or thicknes, of what lenge youl according to the quantitie oo 5 iia r = =icke you fhallcouer with Hoopes andpole thatyou may the more conueniently vhole bed or bancke with Mats oldepaintedcl ftraweor fuch like, tokeep eit from the iniurie of of the colde frofte nightes and not burt thet plantedinthebed:then fhballlyou couer the bed all over with the moftfertilleft earthfinelyit j ye your feedes : that beingdone, caftyour! reft withoutlool g vpon it, or taking awa bite cutte in pe ece ofmuttonsdein g| X satntobrea ke Daceof thtee wee | td abvaies tha dllowiving, ikea Pinte of f > te‘Bes searced or SMdragmes , ae for cheffpace of feautnotcismaedaies at the moft, for commonly in that fpace? ale foo rthof the grounde : thenmnft yyoucaft yponthem inthe ¢ inthe honfeor in ‘hie(unnea daie befores ae 1 et wellor pumpe , will{o chilland coo >that prefentlyin one daie youhaueie lofta bancke alfos forin this face thegreat neato {pent, at euerie night they mult bee coucred antfe le Cucumber. s warmed with the fun beamnes: this muft be done from time to umeyvatl r fixe leaves a peece , and that the dar nger of thecoldn ts is patts : withthe earth fticking to th1¢ plantas nsecre asmay b , ethe funne hath moft forcein thegardens provideed that fttaw,; moft coner them with fome Docke leaues or wi es of iutay : f eateol r is well to keepe them from the coldof2 the night,as alisthe heated ‘Pon th. Ne er t 1many{fa a oun OletWworne pr se whereupon are lety Xeltalkes ON'the>, ayith greene colour: Hacklthebe the en ds whereofdo grow{mall g flowers cor z |