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Show Lbe Kitchen Garden. Lhe Kitchen Garden ble well, yeelding diners headsof leaues or fuckers, wherebyitis increafed. _ The white Artichoke is in all things likethered but that thehead is of a w hitifh athe ae colour, liketheleaues, whereas the former is reddifh. Wehauealfo another, whofe headis greene, and very fharpe vpwards. monin manyplaces. oa £ie Ware i je <<) ae Weehate hadalfo another-kinde in former timesthat grewas high as any man and » spaebranchedinto diucrs ftalkes, eucry one bearing a head thereon, almoft as biggeas tf ( {, firft. ae 4 64 There is another kinde,called the Muske Artichoke,which growethlike the French 4 kinde, but is muchbetter in {pending, alchough it hauea leffer bottome. We fle The French Artichoke hatha white head, the fcales whereof ftand ftaringfar afin. derone from anotherat the ends, which arefharpe: this is well known by this quali. PE*s cic, chat while itis hotafter it is boyled, it {welleth fo ftrong, that one wouldveri] 9 e_p binke it had bin boyledin ftinking water, which was brought ouer after agreatfrofle *F that had well nigh confumed ourbeft kindes,and are now almoft cleane caft out aeain, © y@/ °Knone being willing to haue it take vpthe roome ofbetter. "ie tate fe ely There isa lowe kinde that gro'weth much about Paris, whicht he French efteeme “J @. f#>*Morethen anyother, and is lower then the former French kinde, the head whereof ad @/t/ as well as the leaves, is of a frefher greene colour, almoft yellowifh. fc,, Then thereis the Thiftle Artichoke, whichis almoft awildekinde, and eroweth /) {maller, witha more open and prickly headthen any of the former, : " tne And laftly, the Chardonas theycall it, becaufe it is almoft of the formeand nature ee ie Crap LI, Fabe & Phafeoli, Gardenand French Beanes. He Garden Beane is of two colours, red or blacke, and white, yet both rif fromone, the fmall or ficlde Beanes I makeno mentionof inthis place ; but the Frenchor Kidney Beaneis almoft ofinfinite forts and colours: we doe not forall that intend to trouble you inthis place, with the knowledgeorrelationof any more thenis fit for a Garden-of that nature, that I haue propoundedit inthe beginning. Our ordinary Beanes, feruing‘for foodefor the poorer fort forthe moft part, are planted as well in fieldes as in gardens, becaufe the quantity of thei that are {pent taketh vp many acresof landto be planted in, and rifevp with one,twoor three ftalks, according to tlie fertilitie of the foyle, being fmooth and {quare, higher then any man oftentimes, whereonare fet at certaine diftances, from the very bottome almoft tothe toppe, two long fmoothflefhy and thicke leaues almoft round, one ftanding by anothcrat the end of a {mall footeftalke: betweenethefe leaues and the ftalke, come forth diuers flowers, all of them lookiag one way.for the moft part, which xe clofe alittle turned vp atthe brimmes, white and {potted with a blackith {potin the middle 2#of a Thiftle, or wilde Artichoke. This groweth high, andfull of fharpeprickles, of ofthem,and fomwhatpurplifhat the foot or bottome, ofthe forme almoft of Broome or Peafe flowers, many of which that grow vpward towvardthetoppe, doefeldome Bruffels planted with thiskinde, which the owner whited like Endiue. andthen fold them in thewinter: Weecannot yet findethe true manner of dreffing them that our beare fruit, and therefore are gatheredto diftill, and thetoppes of the ftalkes cut off, tocaufe the refttothriuethe better ; after which grow vplong great {mooth greene pods, greaterthen in any otherkinde of Pulfe;which grow blacke whentheyare ripe, and containe within them two, three or foure Beanes, which arefomewhar flat and agrayifh colour. Iohn Tradefcante affured mee, hee faw three acres of Landabout Countrey maytakedelight therein. : All thefe kindes areencreafed by flipping the young fhootes from the root, which being replanted in February,March,or Aprill, hauethe fame yeare manytimes ‘putthe next at the moft, borne good heads. i Weefinde by dayly experience, that out Englifh red Artichoke isin our Countrey the moft delicate meate of any of the other, and therefore diners thinking it tobee a feuerall kinde, ‘thaue {ent them into Italie, France, and the Lowe Countries, whete they haue not abode in their goodneffe aboue twe Yeare, but that they haue degenttated ; fothat it feemeth, that ourfoyleand climate haththe preheminencete nowrilh vp this plant to his higheft excellencie. round, eyther white or reddifh, which being full ripe grow blackith : the roote hath divers fibres annexed ynto the maine rogte, which dyetheuery yeare. The French or Kidney Beane rifeth vp atthefirft. but with one ftalke, whichafter. wardsdividethit {elfe into many armesorbranches,eueryone ofthem being fo weak, that without they be fuftained with ftickes or poles, whereon with their winding and clafpersthey take hold, they would lye frnitleffe vpon the ground : vponthefebranches growforth at fevérall places long footeftalkes, with euery of them three broade, toundandpointed greene leaues at the end of them,towards the tops whereo! come forth diuers lowers, made like vnto Peafe bloffomes, of the fame colour forthe moft part that chefruit will be of, thatis to fay, cyther white,oryellow,or red, or blackith, The Vfeof Artichoves™ The manner of preparing them for.the Table is well knowne to thé youngeft Houfewife I thinke, to bee boyled in faire water, and a little oe vatill eS - tender , aa afterwardesa little vinegar and pep pePe ef, put toa the butter, »P poured y pon them forthe fawce, and foare {er I : They vielikewifeto take the boyledbot ichi delicate kinde of baked meate. eeeeet hstie The Chard on is eaten rawe of diters. with vinegar and oy! s : y ie, peppét and falt, allof them, orfome, as cueryone lieth for iets ach e or of adeepe purple &c. but white ismoft vfuall for our Garden ; after which come long and flenderflat pods, fome crooked, and fome ftraight, with a ftringas it were running downethe backe thereof, wherein are contained flattifh round fruit, made to the fafhion ofa kidney : the reote is long,and {preadeth withmany fibres annexedyn- toit, perifhing cuery yeare. The Vie of thefe Beanies. ‘The Garden Beanesferue (asI faid before) more forthe vfe of the poore then oftherich : I hall therefore only fhew you the order the poore take withthem, and leauecuriofity to them that will beftow time vponthem. Theyareonly boyledin faire water anda little falt, and afterwards ftewed with fome butter, alittlevinegar and pepper being put vntothem, and fo eaten; : or elfe.caten aloneafterthey are boyled withont any other fawce. The water ofthe bloffomesdiftilled, iswfedtotake.away {pots,and to cleer theskin. The water of thegreene huskesorcodsisgoodfortheftone. _ The Kidney Beanes boyledin water huskeand all,onely the ends cutoff, andthe ftring takenaway, and ftewed with,butter Sac, are efteemed more fauory meate to many mens pallates, then the former,, aad area difh more oftentimes at rich mens Tables then at the poore. Xx 2 CHAP, |