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Show 488 Lhe Kitchen Garde The Kitchen Garden. vparoundgreene hairy orprickly ftalk,bearing atthe toppe;among atew finall green leaixes,diuers {mall yellow flowers in rough heads,whichturneinto doune, containing within thempbrowne ycllowith {mall long feedes, fomewhat like vito the feedeof Hawkeweede : the rooteis wooddy,which peritheth quickly after it hath bornefeed, , buristender while it is young. The Vic of Langdebeefe, The leaties are onely vfed in all places that I know, oreuer could learne, for an herbe for the potamong others, and is thoughtto bee good to loo. fen the belly. > Crar. XVIII n. earah pee oa tained {mall round feede+ the rocteis very full of threds orftrings. TheredBlite isin all thingslikethe white, but thathis leaues and tufted heades are exceeding redat thefirft; and after tarne more purplifh. The Vfeof Blites. Blites are vfed as Arrach, eythet boyled of it felfe or ftewed; which they call Loblolly, or amongother herbes to bee putinto the por; andyet fome doe viterly retufeit, becaafein divers it prouoketh caftings. Itis altogether infipide or without tafte, but yet by reafon of the moift flipperiequalitie ithath, ithelpethtoloofenthe belly. The vafauorinefle whereof hath in many Countrics gréwie intoa prouerbe, or by-word,tocall dull, flow, or lazie perfons bythat name : They areaccounted more hurtfull tothe ftamacke, andfotothe headand eyes, then other herbes, and therefore they are the lefle vied. Atriplexfine Olus tureums. Arrach. Te bediuerskindes of Arrach, or Orach, as fome doe callthem ; fomeof the Garden, whereof I meanc toentreatein this place; otherswilde ofthe Fieldes, &c. and othets of the Sea, which are notto bee {pokenofinthis worke, butreferredtoagenerall hiftorie. The white garden Arrach, or Orach, hath diuers leaues, ftanding vpontheir feuerall footeftalkes, broadeat the bottome, ending intwo pointslike an arrow, with two feathers atthe head, and {mall pointed acthe end of the leafe, of a whitifh yellow greene colour, and as it were ftrewed oner with flower or meale, efpecially whilethey are young: the ftalke likewife is mealy,bearing many branches with {mall yellow flowers onthem,which turne into {mall leaficfeeds: the rooote groweth fomewhat deepein the ground, ‘with many {imal! threds fattened thereto: it quickly {pringeth vp of the {eede, groweth great,and fadcth away asfoon as it hath borne feede. The purple Arrachis in all things like vnto the white, faning onely m thecolour of the leafe,ftalke,feede,8ec. which are all of 4 mealy dufty purplith colour. The Vicof Arrach. Arrach is cold and moift, and of alubricke or flippery qualitie, whereby it quickely paffeth through the ftomackeandbelly, and makethit foluble, and is of manyviedfor that purpofe, being boyled and buttered, or puta mongotherherbesinto the pot to make pettage. There are manydifhes ofmeate made with them while they are young, for being almoft without fauour of themfelues, they are the more conutttible into whatrellifh any one will makethem with Sugar,Spice &¢. Crap. XX. Beta. Beetes. ae seBOD tt LY STs T Here are many diuerfitiesofBeetes,fome growing natérally in our own Country, others brought from beyond Sea; whereof fomeare white, fome greene, fome yellow, fome red: theleaues of fomeare of vfe only, andthe root noe vied : others the rooteis only vied, and notthe leaues : and fome againe; both roote andleafe.: The ancient Authors, as by their workes appeare, knew buttwoforts, the white and the blacke Béete; whereof the white is fufficiently known, and was ofchem termed Sécu/a, of the later Phyfitians Ss/e, becaule it was’ thought firft to be brought ftom Sicilie:. theblacke abideth {ome'controuerfie: fome thinking that our common greene Beete, becaufe itis of adarke greene colour,’ was that they called the blacke Beete ; others that our {mall red Becte, which is'of a darkered colour, was their black Beete; which in my opinion is the morelikely :Butto comietortie matter in hand,and giue you the defcriptions of them whichare in vfe withvs, arid’ leane controuerfies to lich a workeasis fit forthem,wherein all fuch matters may be difcuffedat large. The commonwhite Beete hath many great leauesnextthe ground (in fome hor Countries growing to be three foote long, and very broade, inour Countreythey are very large, but nothing neerethat proportion) of a whitifh greene colour ; the ftalke is reat, (trong, and ribbed or crefted, bearing great {tore of leaues vponit vptothe Very toppealmoft : the flowers grow invery long tufts, {mall at the ends, andturning down their heads,which arc fmall pale greenith yellow burres, giuing corneredpricklyfeede : the rootc is great, long and hard, when it hathgiven{eede, of no vfear all, but abiderh@ former winter with his leaues vporit,as all other forts following dog, The commonred Beetdiffereth not fromthe white Bete, ‘but only that it is norfo gteat, and both the leaues aséd rootes are fomewhat reds the leanes bee infometiore tedthenin others, which have but red veinesorftrakes in them,in fomealfo ofafrefhi ted, in others very darkered : the:toote hereof is'red, {pongy, ‘and not vied to bee taten, Cuar. X1X. Blitum. Bites. Thecommon greene Beeteisalfullike vnto the white Beete, but of adatke'greene Herebediuers forts of Blites, fome whereof Uhaue entreated in the formet coldur; This hath beene found ricere'the {alt Matfhes by Rochefter, inthe foote-way part of this worke, vnderthetitle of C¢imarauthus, Flower gentle: others that Boing fromthe Lady Levefons houfe thither, by-a'worthy, diligent and painefull ob~ feruer and preferuer both ofplants 4rd all other natures varicties, often remembred cfore in this worke,called ohn Tradefcante,who there findingit,gaue methe knowledge thereof, and I haue vpon his reportfet itheredown inthis manner; The Romane red Beete, called Bera rapofa,is bothforleafe and roote the moft excellentBeete of all others“: hisrootes-yee as great'as the greateftCarror, exceeding red are nourfed vp in Gardens, I will fet forth in this place, whichare onely tW®, that haue cometo my knowledge,that is, the whireand thered, and are of aqualitic as necre voto Arrach as vnto Beetes, participating of both, and therefore I havepli- ced them betwixt them. The white Blite hath leaues fomewhatlike vnto Beetes, but fmaller, reunder, and of awhitifhgreenc colour,cuery one ftanding vpona fall long footeftalke : the ftalkerifeth vptwoorthreefootehigh, with manyfuch like leaves thereon’: ‘thre flowers grow atthe top in long roundtufts or clufters, wherein are “ gine 4 &9 : oth within and without, very [weeteand good; fit to bee €atéa-s ‘this Bette ¢ ves higherthen the laft red Beete, whofe rootes arendt vied tobeceatens' the lea |