The iuice of Onions is much vsed to be applyed to any burnings with fire, or with Gun-pouder, or to any scaldings with water or oyle, and is most familiar for the Country, where vpon such sudden occasions they haue not a more fit or speedy remedie at hand: The strong smell of Onions, and so also of Garlicke and Leekes, is quite taken away from offending the head or eyes, by the eating of Parsley leaues after them.
Chap. XLIIII.
Porrum. Leekes.
There be likewise sundry sorts of Leekes, both great and small. Leekes are very like vnto Onions, hauing long green hollow-like leaues, flattish on the one side, and with a ridge or crest on the backe side: if they bee suffered to grow vncut, then in the second or third yeare after the sowing, they will send forth a round and slender stalke, euen quite throughout, and not swollen or bigger in the middle like the Onion, bearing at the toppe a head of purplish flowers, and blacke seede after them, very like vnto Onion seede, that it is hard to distinguish them: the root is long and white, with a great bush of fibres hanging at it, which they call the beards.
The vnset Leeke hath longer and slenderer roots then the other, which being transplanted, groweth thicker and greater.
The French Leeke, which is called the Vine Leeke, is the best of all others.
Our common kinde is of two sorts, one greater then another.
Another sort encreaseth altogether by the roote, as Garlicke doth.
And then Ciues, which are the smallest, and encrease aboundantly only by the root.