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H _ _ ‘ ‘ ‘ . v q] The Defcription. 3 B’“17“"‘f”"" ‘"J]"'- g “ He Garden Colewort hath many great broad leaues of a deepe blacke greene colour, Curled Garden Coleo , '5 mixed with ribs and lines ofreddifh and white colours : the Ralke groweth out of the "' middell from among the leaues,branched with fundry armes bearing at the top little ‘Yellow floures :and after they be palt, there do fucceed long cods full of round feed like thofe of ‘ 5 Tumepsbut frnallenwith a wooddy root hauing many firings or threds fa fined thereto. 2 There is another leller fort than the former,with many deepe cuts on both {ides euen to the

gniddefi of the rib, and very much curled and roughed in the edges 3 in other things it differeth ot. -

1 Bmjfim vulgarzkjhtiaa. V Garden Colewort.

r 3 The red kinde of Colewort is likewife a Colewort of the garden, and differeth from the M ‘ 3 .- .2 ' ,, .. I , °°mmon in the colour of his Ieaues,whieh tend vnto redne fl'e,otherwife very like. ’ $1;/.'~”'5//2 . \ ' ,_ . v : ' h 4. There is alfo found a certaine kindehereofwirh the leaues wrapped together intoa round ' \»r'’'. A’ 41 s ’ 4. , _ ' fad or globe,whoI'e head iswhire of colour,efpecially toward Winter when it is ripe. The root ‘ 15 hard,and the {talks of a wooddy fubfiance. 1 This is the great ordinary Cabbage knowne eue-A

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5 Braflica capitm mém. 6 Brrfliczz pamla; Red Cabbage Cole, Open Cabbage Cole,‘

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,3 ;, "There is another fort of Cabbage or Ioued Colewort which hath his leaues wrapped togei :h°1'1'Dt0 around head or globe yet leffer than that of the white Cabbage, and the colour of thé eaues ’ t n

of a lighter red than thofe of the former. -

5 Thc Open loued Colewort hath a very great hard or wooddy fialke, whereupon do gf0_“’ V6-‘ Wlatgc leaues of a white greene colour and Fe: with thick white ribs,and gathereth the refi ofthe ‘ewe’ °l°f°1Y r’-Ogether which be lefl'ei' than t-hofe next the groundsyet when it commeth to the utting vp or clofing t,Ogether,it rather dilateth it fell e abroad,than clofeth all together. , 1 7 D0ub1e Colewott hath many area: and large leaues,whereup0fl doe grow hem and ‘hare 0‘ '1‘? {mall jagged leaues, as it were gade of ragged [hreds and F5895 ‘ct V90“ ‘ha {mall ‘cafe’ Much gi“°‘h “WW Ofa Plurne or fan of feathers. In f’talk,r00t;3f1d °““Y Oiher P3“? befides it doth V-‘fires with the Garden Colewort. ’ " ” T 8 The