Raddishes doe serue vsually as a stimulum before meat, giuing an appetite thereunto; the poore eate them alone with bread and salt. Some that are early sowen, are eaten in Aprill, or sooner if the season permit; others come later; and some are sowen late to serue for the end of Summer: but (as of all things else) the earlier are the more accepted.
The blacke Raddishes are most vsed in the winter, (yet some in their naturall and not forc’d grounds, haue their rootes good most part of the Summer) and therefore must bee sowen after Midsomer; for if they should bee sowen earlier, they would presently runne vp to stalke and seed, and so lose the benefit of the roote. The Physicall propertie is, it is often vsed in medicines that helpe to breake the stone, and to auoyde grauell.
The Horse Raddish is vsed Physically, very much in Melancholicke, Spleneticke and Scorbuticke diseases. And some vse to make a kinde of Mustard with the rootes, and eate it with fish.
Dittander or Pepperworte is vsed of some cold churlish stomackes, as a sawce or sallet sometimes to their meate, but it is too hot, bitter and strong for weake and tender stomackes.
Our Gardiners about London vse great fences of reede tyed together, which seemeth to bee a mat set vpright, and is as good as a wall to defend the cold from those things that would be defended, and to bring them forwards the earlier.
Chap. XLIII.
Cepæ. Onions.
| 1 | Raphanus rusticanus. Horse Raddish. |
| 2 | Lepidium siue Piperitis. Dittander. |
| 3 | Cepæ rotunda. Round Onions. |
| 4 | Cepæ longæ. Long Onions. |
| 5 | Porrum. Leekes. |
| 6 | Allium. Garlicke. |
| 7 | Rapunculus. Rampions. |
| 8 | Tragopogon. Goates beard. |
Wee haue diuers sorts of Onions, both white and red, flat, round and long, as shall be presently shewed: But I will doe with these as I doe with the rest, only giue you one description for them all, and afterwards their seuerall names and varieties, as they are to be known by.