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Show The Ritchen Garden. The Kuchen Garden Crare. LY. Pepe, Pompions. E haue but one kinde of Pompion (as I take it) in all our Gardens, not. \ / ‘ ] withf{tanding the diuerfities of bigneffe and colour, The Pompion or great Melon (or asfome call it Milion) creepeth Vp onthe ground (if nothing bec by it whreeon it may take hold and climbe) with very great, ribbed, rough, and prickly branches, whercon ate fet verylarge roughleaues cut inon theedges with deepe gafhes, and dented befides , with many clafpersalfo, which windeabout euery thing they meete withall : the flowers are great and large, hollowand yellow,diuided at the brims into fiue parts, at the bottome of which, asit isinthereft, groweth the fruit, whichis very great , fometimesof thebignefleof a mans body, and oftentimes leffe, in fome ribbed or bunched, in othersplaine, and ei- ther long or round,either green or yellow,or gray,as Nature lifteth to thew herfelfe, forit is but wafte time,to recite all the formes and colours may be obferued in them: the inner rinde next vato the outeris yellowifh and firme: the feedcis great, flat, and white,lying in the middle of the watery pulpe: the rooteis ofthe bigneffe ofa mans thumbeor greater, di{perfed vnder ground with many {mall fibres ioyned thereunto, Gourds are kindes ef Melons ; but becaufe wee haueno vicof them, weeleae them vate theirfit place. The Vieof Pompions. They are boyled in fairewater and falt, or in powdered beefe broth, or fometimesin milke,and foeaten,orelfe buttered. They vie likewife totake outthe inner watery fubftance with the feedes , and fill vp the placewith Pippins , and hauing laid onthe couer which they cut off from thetoppe, totake out the pulpe, they bake them together, and the pooreofthe Citic, as wellas the Country people,doe eate thereof,as of a dainty difh. Thefeede hereof, as well as of Cowcumbers and Melons, are cooling; and ferue for emulfions inthe like manner for Almond milkes,&c.for thofe aretroubled with the ftone, Cuar. LVI. Fragaria, Strawberries. Hete be diuers forts ofStrawberries,whereofthofe thatare nourfed vp in oa dens or Orchards I intend to giueyouthe knowledge in this place, and leaue the other toa fitter yet I muft needs thew you ofone ofthe wilde forts,which forhis ftrangeneffe is worthy of this Garden : And Lmuft alfo enforme you, thatthe wilde Strawberry that groweth inthe Woods is our Garden Strawberry,but bettered bythe foyleandtranfplanting. nak The Strawberry hath his leaues clofed togetherat the firft fpringing vp 5 which ale j terwards {pread them{elues into three diuidedparts or leaues,euery one ftanding¥P% a fnaall long foote-ftalke, greene on the vpperfide,, gtayifh vnderneath, and {nippe or dented about the edges ; among which rife vp diuets fmall ftalkes, bearing foure of fiuc flowers at thetops, confifting of fiue white roid pointed leaucs , fomewhat yc lowifh inthe bottome,witli fome yellow threads therein ; after which come the frutt, made ofmany{mall graines fetrogethery like vnto afimall, Mulberry or Rafpis, rege difh whenit isripe, and ofa pleafant winy tafte, whetein is enclofed diuersfmall blac kifh {eede : the rocte is reddifhand long, with diners {mall threadsatit, and ee Mi. F We ORS pete WR OF NN Bey ~ |