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Botanologia
Author
Salmon, William, 1644-1713. Other Author(s): Dawks, Ichabod, 1661-1730, Rhodes, Henry, Taylor, John, bookseller.
Date Added
10 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1710
Publisher
London : Printed by I. Dawks for H. Rhodes ... and J. Taylor ...
Source
Botanologia
Alternate Title
the English Herbal, or, History of Plants : containing ... : Adorned with Exquisite Icons or Figures, of the most Considerable Species, Representing to the Life, the True Forms of Those Several Plants : the Whole in Alphabetical Order
Topic
Botany > Pre-Linnean works. Botany, Medical > Early works to 1800. Plants > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800.
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with Hogs Lard, it is faid to heal burnings and
‘ Sculdings with Fire or Water.
XlV. The Leaves are lll‘ullly' kept to innit: :1
line for-60f Mutts of, and other like purpoics.
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Of c AR 1% ,0 T 3, Garden. i
L,- H E Money. It is called in (ii-continentxiie.
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In Iz'ngli .,‘ (Error, and Gordon 9","
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H.177? Kintlr. Carrot: are either Garden or
Will. The Gnl'den,eare, t. I’dy’iinnm lcnttrfolinfa-
rim linen, Yellow Garden Carrots. 2. Pullinam
hltertt fitting alro-rnbt‘nr, Red Garden
tenuifclin
Carrots. '
5 Root ,and the‘ ywr following th
‘3 111. The Deitription. 1m .Yellow Carrot gin”: :4
[urge long Root, great or tliielt‘, and yellow, big nbove,‘
gillfntoll. pointed below,- without any hing: or-
,1" times, of 4, pIgVint-fzcert '1 izjie, nnJ :tlverefore
generally, jpentr or Food.- from llJlJ' Root fpring
.thlflllj‘et'eritl long Leaver, and well fprendqnnde’up
of many tlJin, out, deep, green Leaves, divided ‘ into
)7'1‘1”)’.Pdrt.r : among lelld) riji‘r up a 1‘0:th Stalk, n
yard, or, more, high, bearing large Tnft: of Unzble:
(f zrbite flatten, whirl) [I‘MJ riff" "33h”, ””1
jfr'mtl not witch, but turn inlo fntdll tttlntlfb rongl)
'luily Seed, jliCMng one In another.
ill; 'IlJr‘Red Carrot ha! ,a Root roimJ and long,
ilml about and fnmll beloio, running to a point a!
" tlk' tiller, and differ; from it only in live color, ’chirb
. ,I , < , ' l i ,
V x ,
. j light ground, that their Roots may
‘ ' 3 pierce deep downwards, which in‘a Rik? clay ground
‘3 its green Tops;;thath
i 3 as any ordinary aim; head ':‘-Tltis hedd
- ‘j for Seed,‘-and,1tptodi1cedrhirn an incredible quan-
K.
i: wholly red 1 [tilt Ilvonghnt .- Front tltir Root r: e
'tnttny winged rover, Intel) at! and divided into nat-
’ny other Letter ; and tbqfe out again, and divided
into many pm, of a deep green ralor'ltl'e II)! for-
‘mer :, ‘hntc whereof in Antmnn will turn to be (I a
fine Red or Purple, ( (lie buntyof tcbieb maker-fe-
ft'rral PtI-‘follf "many time: to gather the Leaver, to
llll‘kjbtlll in their It'd”, or lludr, or Bo WIN or
fit! tlieln on tlteir Slot-vet- t'njlettd of leather: ) from
among whirl) Lewes rife: 12p a Stalk, bearing many
Leave: likewife upon it, tttuncthv bigl) a: tire
Ptufnip, being obon! a yord Vltiglr,‘ [wring many
Taft: or Umbler 2f tgbile floicerr, tclJielJ turn into
jinn]! rottgl) Seed, fearing 4] if it were lm'ry, on!
hnelling grotditlly enough, if rubbed between the
Pinget'r. In a word, the whole FIJI?! dlferr very
little from the former, except in tbe redncf: of the
Rom; ‘ I ,
V. New here i: to' be noted, tz‘Tlnt the 221love
Carrot is of two forts, viz: Tl): long and tlrejbort.
One if the long jbn: is of a pale yellow, and this
has the gtmtelt and longeii Root, and likewil'e the
greateli heud of Green : this for the molt part is
the worlt fort of Carrot, nottbeing fo fweet and
hrm as the other; The other longfort is of a deep
Gold yellow color, having a fmaller head of Green
Leaves upon it, and this is always the bell and
fweeteil. .Porltinfon rays, that yellow Carrots, by
i ‘r 15b " Salrnolh’rfleirbnl. i, Lib]
’ . fometimes fowing themfelves, do oftentimes make
their Roots become White. Tliefbort Root: are 31-
(0 divided into pale and deep‘ yellow, or Golden
color. 2.;17141 the red Carrotr, Ibeiides' thofe
which Em: red nite throughout, there is dnother,
whofe Root‘is r without for a pretty way inwards,
but the middle is yellow. ‘ ‘ . - 1‘ '
VI. The Placer; They are only Sown in Garden:,
or other nmnnred Fieldr, ‘chofen and fitted out for
that purpofe, and delight to grow in :1 Sandy and
the more calily
: they cannot fo welldo. ‘t . t
1 VII. The Timer“ They are to be form in Morel)
, and April, the-hilt year they only [trike down their
, bring forth their
f Flower and Seed. In Carolina law :1 Carrot above
5 fourymrr old, which brought forth its ripe Seed in
1 the jlftl) year :‘The reafon thereof I conceive to be,
? bemufe the Muller of the Home cut off ev year
. it.- mightinot, Seed, whereby
, the Root grew, ”ng em; .gs'hlfol the ’green herd
tbobftb‘yenf ,‘WththSfmli’ Oi fiverimes as big
he let Hand
[i thereof,‘ Varyi‘fair" land nezirl twice no lar I at
arril’intny Carrot Sufi?“ '1': ; y j i 3
IX. The Qndlitiet.l'y‘iThe".ISeed is hot and dry in
the firlt Degrfe,$Apetitive,‘,'Difcuflive, Diuretickt
Carminam’e,‘ bromatick, Nephritick, Hyfierick, and
Alteratiije .: The Roots are 'Sweer, Flatulent, A111-
leptick, and Spenmt'ogenetick. ’ . ‘Ifx.
IX. ’As'i to‘their Speeijention, Preparation: M1
Vimm, they are the Elmeiwithtthofh of the Wild
Carrot, treated of in the nextClrapter, to Which we
refer you ,‘but with this note, that thefe Garden
Kind: are nothing 'ntm‘ fo‘; (irong and powerful as
rhofe of the Wild Kindly the Seeds of both being
‘chiei'ly ufed in Medicine : AS'forr the Roots, the
Garden Kind 2: thoufand fold exceed the ' Wild for
Food, not only for the‘ plmfure of Eating them.
hul alfo for their Analeptick or Nourifhing f3-
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