- Seeds and Herbs for the Kitchen.
- 1. Avens.
- 2. Betony.
- 3. Bleets or beets, white or yellow.
- 4. Bloodwort.
- 5. Bugloss.
- 6. Burnet.
- 7. Borrage.
- 8. Cabbages, remove in June.
- 9. Clary.
- 10. Coleworts.
- 11. Cresses.
- 12. Endive.
- 13. Fennel.
- 14. French Mallows.
- 15. French Saffron, set in August.
- 16. Lang de beef.
- 17. Leeks, remove in June.
- 18. Lettuce, remove in May.
- 19. Longwort (Lungwort).
- 20. Liverwort (probably Agrimonia Eupatoria).
- 21. Marigolds, often cut.
- 22. Mercury (Chenopodium Bonus Henricus).
- 23. Mints, at all times.
- 24. Nep (Nepeta Cataria).
- 25. Onions, from December to March.
- 26. Orache or arache, red and white (Atriplex hortensis).
- 27. Patience.
- 28. Parsley.
- 29. Penny-royal.
- 30. Primrose.
- 31. Poret (a leek or small onion according to some writers, Garlick).
- 32. Rosemary, in the spring time, to grow south or west.
- 33. Sage, red or white.
- 34. English Saffron, set in August.
- 35. Summer Savory.
- 36. Sorrell.
- 37. Spinage.
- 38. Succory.
- 39. Siethes (Chives).
- 40. Tansey.
- 41. Thyme.
- 42. Violets of all sorts.
- Herbs and Roots for Salads and Sauce.
- 1. Alexanders at all times.
- 2. Artichokes.
- 3. Blessed Thistle, or Carduus Benedictus.
- 4. Cucumbers, in April and May.
- 5. Cresses, sow with lettuce in the spring.
- 6. Endive.
- 7. Mustard-seed, sow in the spring, and at Michaelmas.
- 8. Musk, Mellion, in April and May.
- 9. Mints.
- 10. Purslane.
- 11. Radish, and after remove them.
- 12. Rampions.
- 13. Rocket, in April.
- 14. Sage.
- 15. Sorrell.
- 16. Spinage, for the summer.
- 17. Sea-holy.
- 18. Sparage, let grow two years and then remove.
- 19. Skirrets, set these plants in March.
- 20. Succory.
- 21. Tarragon, set in slips in March.
- 22. Violets of all colours.
These buy with the penny Or look not for any.
- 1. Capers.
- 2. Lemons.
- 3. Olives.
- 4. Oranges.
- 5. Rice.
- 6. Samphire.
- Herbs and Roots, to Boil or to Butter.
- 1. Beans, set in winter.
- 2. Cabbages, sow in March and after remove.
- 3. Carrots.
- 4. Citrons, sow in May.
- 5. Gourds, in May.
- 6. Navews, sow in June (Brassica Napus).
- 7. Pompions, in May.
- 8. Parsnips, in winter.
- 9. Runcival Pease, set in winter.
- 10. Rapes, sow in June.
- 11. Turnips, in March and April.
- Strewing Herbs of all Sorts.
- 1. Basil, fine and busht, sow in May.
- 2. Balm, set in March.
- 3. Camomile.
- 4. Costmary.
- 5. Cowslips and Paggles.
- 6. Daisies of all sorts.
- 7. Sweet Fennell.
- 8. Germander.
- 9. Hyssop, set in February.
- 10. Lavender (Lavendula vera).
- 11. Lavender Spike (L. spica).
- 12. Lavender Cotton.
- 13. Marjoram, knotted, sow or set in the spring.
- 14. Maudeline.
- 15. Pennyroyal.
- 16. Roses of all sorts, in January and September.
- 17. Red Mints.
- 18. Sage.
- 19. Tansy.
- 20. Violets.
- 21. Winter Savory.
- Herbs, Branches, and Flowers for Windows.
- 1. Bays, sow or plant in January.
- 2. Bachelor’s Buttons.
- 3. Bottles, blue, red, and tawny.
- 4. Columbines.
- 5. Campions.
- 6. Cowslips (Tusser here meant Oxlips).
- 7. Daffodils or Daffodondillies.
- 8. Eglantine or Sweet-Brier.
- 9. Fetherfew.
- 10. Flower Amour, sow in May (Amaranthus).
- 11. Flower de Luce.
- 12. Flower-Gentle, white and red (Amaranthus).
- 13. Flower Nice.
- 14. Gillyflowers, red, white, and Carnations, set in spring and at harvest in pots, pails, or tubs, or for summer, in beds.
- 15. Holyoaks, red, white, and Carnations (Hollyhocks).
- 16. Indian Eye, sow in May, or set in slips in March (Dianthus Plumarius).
- 17. Lavender of all sorts.
- 18. Larksfoot (Larkspur).
- 19. Laus tibi (Narcissus Poeticus).
- 20. Lillium Convallium.
- 21. Lilies, red and white, sow or set in March and September.
- 22. Marigolds, double.
- 23. Nigella Romana.
- 24. Pansies, or Heartsease.
- 25. Paggles, green and yellow (Cowslips).
- 26. Pinks of all sorts.
- 27. Queen’s Gilliflowers (Hesperis Matronalis).
- 28. Rosemary.
- 29. Roses of all sorts.
- 30. Snapdragon.
- 31. Sops in wine (Pinks).
- 32. Sweet Williams.
- 33. Sweet Johns (Dianthus Barbatus).
- 34. Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum Umbellatum).
- 35. Star of Jerusalem (Tragopogon pratensis).
- 36. Stock Gilliflowers of all sorts.
- 37. Tuft Gilliflowers.
- 38. Velvet flowers, or French Marigolds (Tagetes patula).
- 39. Violets, yellow and white.
- 40. Wall Gilliflowers of all sorts.
- Herbs to still in Summer.
- 1. Blessed Thistle.
- 2. Betony.
- 3. Dill.
- 4. Endive.
- 5. Eyebright.
- 6. Fennel.
- 7. Fumitory.
- 8. Hyssop.
- 9. Mints.
- 10. Plantane.
- 11. Roses, red and damask.
- 12. Respies (Rubus Idæus).
- 13. Saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga or Saxifraga granulata, or perhaps, Carum Carvi).
- 14. Strawberries.
- 15. Sorrel.
- 16. Succory.
- 17. Woodroffe, for sweet waters and cakes.
- Necessary Herbs to grow in the Garden for Physic, not rehearsed before.
- 1. Anise.
- 2. Archangel (Angelica).
- 3. Betony.
- 4. Chervil.
- 5. Cinquefoil (Potentida reptans).
- 6. Cummin.
- 7. Dragons (Arum Maculatum).
- 8. Dittary or garden ginger (Lepidium Latifolium).
- 9. Gromwell seed (Lithospernum officinale).
- 10. Hart’s tongue.
- 11. Horehound.
- 12. Lovage.
- 13. Liquorice.
- 14. Mandrake.
- 15. Mugwort.
- 16. Peony.
- 17. Poppy.
- 18. Rue.
- 19. Rhubarb.
- 20. Smallage.
- 21. Saxifrage.
- 22. Savin.
- 23. Stitchwort.
- 24. Valerian.
- 25. Woodbine.
Thus ends in brief,
Of herbs the chief,
To get more skill,
Read whom ye will;
Such mo to have,
Of field go crave.
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