14.40 Of the Hifiorie of Plants: i 13- 3-
Thefe Nuts that haue their skins red are the garden and planted Nuts, and the right P0“‘l‘l‘c
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Nuts or Filberds : they are called in high Dutch, mlyucuufg, and iliotnufgz in low Dutch, 13090“ i9al'¢l jfiotenz in Englifh,Filberds,and red Filberds. The other Nuts which be white are iudged to be wilde. The Temperamre and Venues." V - _ i, Hafcll Nuts newly gathered, and notes yetdry,containe in thetna cerraine fuperfluous mo! fiure,by realbn whereof they are windy : not onely the new gathered Nuts,but the dry alfo. be “:3, hard of digeflion ; for they are of an earthy and cold elic-nce, and of an hard and found fubflimn 1 for which caufe alfo they very llowly paife through the belly, therefore they are troublel0m§“ clogging to the flomackc,caufe head-ache, efpecially when they be eaten in too great 3 ‘l“3“myC; The kernells of Nuts made into rnilke like Almonds do mightily biride the belly, and are g0 for the laske and the bloudy flix. . . - ' s The fame doth coole exceedingly in hot feuers and burning agues. The catkins are cold and dry, and likewile binding: they alfo Pray the laske. not i The kernels of Nuts rather caiife than cure the bloudy flix and laske, wherefore they are to be vfed in fuch difeafes. 1,:
.0ftl2e W 4//«nut Tree.
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Nflx Mglzms. The VValnurtree. ‘mu His isa great tree with a tliiCl<€ 3” an
body : the barke is fomewhat gr¢“”"’{’,c,,, tending to the colour Offifllesoand ohc . times full of clefts :tl'1€ boughes lprfiadl ego, felues far abroad : the leaues coflf-fl Offiuree lix fafined to one rib,like thofe ofthe all‘ ‘be; and with one (Ptariding on the top,W ‘C, we; broader and longer than the particular (6 en, ofthe All1,ffllOO[h a1fo,and ofa £’tr01’g mthc . the catkins or aglets come forth betblezlke Nuts : thefe Nuts doe grow hard to the wee; ofthe lcaues, by conplesor by threfi 35‘ “dc; which at the firlt when they be yet lit“ terse“ hauea fweet lmelarid be couered wit 3 - h huske : vnder that is a wooddy fhflll In with a the kernel! is contained,being coucfe with thin skin, parted almolt into fourc p3“5~ era. a woody skin as it werezthe inner pl1lP"g,and ofiswhitefvveet and plealant to the I3 his that is when it is new gathered, for 3&5
dry it becommeth oily and rancke.
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The Walnut tree groweth in ii common high.wayes , in a fat an ground,and in orchards : it prol‘perCfl‘_° fruitfull banlres, it loueth not to gr0W ‘n ry places. i .
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, The leaues together with the catkins come forth in the Spring: the Nuts 3,-e gazherffd 1" ‘ gulf. ' If T62 Names.
. d ’ Thetree is called in G‘1'CCl(€,K«'pw:: in Latine, Nax, which name doth fignifie both th€"‘::Cnh, the fruit: in high Dutch, gaufsbaumz in low Dutch, alaontt bonnie. and grtootelaerz in E 113,; is
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Ntz:/fer .: in Spani{li,Nagueyra .' in Eng.1i{h,Walnut tree, and of lomr, Walfli nut tree. . Sfillffl 55! figgekc, Kiev» B;«evwv. that is to fay, Nzrx. Regia, or the Kingly Nutzititlikcwl
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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 14.4. I
, h g,1 on {hould fay 10955 £14”-‘a I“Pi_t“3‘5_ Acorns 5 or IW"m$'l“”7‘>the helping A“. Come ,’:§*n:1”;padS;E,£;: Pllryficzl mix, or the Perlian Nut: in high DUFC_h, _i3B2lf€l) jlinff, arid Ifiattma “W3 : in low Duitchfibuketantenrilaalfth Jlifltmfi 1“ I“‘l‘“””‘{‘-"‘ ”' “‘ F‘°“°h="(""‘ " ‘“ SP““‘“’» %te;{§5 and Now ,- in Eng1ilh,VValnut; and Offomeswalm mu‘ ’ 9} The Temperature and Vcrtuesf] R h g I. I Id d A Th f {h k 1 f h t n my athercd are pleafant tot e ta e : t eyare a. itt e co , an _ balmff0lE“I13lleli]n(:ll:l.?r€:V:l§gl: if not gerfefily concocted : they be hard ofdigeflion, and nourilh
ittl ; d. . . . . TehetClyfy)7nfLl!Ct):VfiyeCEleOl:::d dry, and thofc more which become oily and ranke: thefe be very hurt- 3
full t 1 {)5 1; d b f des that they are hardly concoétcd, they increafe choler, caufe head- achei;)rl(i1E)Cl(l):l1;:f:llE’i?O[iCllfiéllfififiandfortilofethatbefiroubledwltpthecough‘ d C Dry Nuts taken fafling with a fig anda little Rue withlland P0)’ °“aP_f€'Jent an pfreferuetlie g b°dY from the infection of thfi Plaglleaand being P1°m‘f“”Y Cate“ they mm worm“ Om‘ °l thc ell . V i ‘ a The greene and tender Nuts boyledi in Sugar a.r1i_gE:ateI1 35 Sllckads are 3 m0“ Pleafant and dele- D. able in t ornfort the lltomacltc-.3“ €XP'3 Pm ' ’ . The o:,ie’§f Walnuts made in fuch mariner as oyle of Almonds, maketh fmooth the hands and E
face and mketh aw; f l f urfe blacke and blew marks that come of ftripes or bruifes. \ y ca es or c , _ , . fimkc made Cube kernels,“ Almond milke is made,co0leth and pleafeth the appetite of the E
languifhing ficke body. With onions, fair, and honey,
I . aid vpon the wound. d am) applied they hem in {hon time, as Diqfcorider faith, Garigrens, Car- H
huncc1ieI:g3:);t11:,;cy:t:,’clI:he pining away of the haire : this alfo is effeéitually done by the oyle that is 3 3 '
preifed 0 c ofthem which is of thin parcs,dii;cf’eine and h=}‘ti'.‘8-‘ i The oiitward greienehuske of the Nuts bath a U0t3bl¢ bmdlgg. fa‘;-glitzfie mouth G“ I d I- Galen deuifed and taught to make of the }“)’°° thfleofa medlcme » ’ lg“ at g°° K
3 * i . . gllllfhfé iilflggiganfiliiillihiliiiiggg certaine binding qualif)’: 35 the ram‘ Author fhewctbiyet the” L.
cl - d r . . . otshfiarb:dli‘i‘hld‘lh}icfinP:liny1li(iit:ri]:lvidgllhhableiihs and lotions for the body, in which they ha“ 3 M fo '
W6 to digeli and alfo to procure fweat.
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. ' ee : it cafieth forth vet man bou hes-;the' He Cbe“°9=;‘°:;3‘§§;?.%{§.1‘.“§?léilléi. a com palfe as that twi; menycan hérdly fa-s bgdl’ ‘sfilége Camber or (ubflance of the wood is found and durable: the leaues bee hfeaggough tvyoiglclled, nicked in the edges, and grester than ‘tlile pfart_ic_ular lleafiiefiof the Zlslllfi tree. The blbwings or catkins be {lenders long? an -grccnc C ‘mu is me 0 e In a mun’ ftugic and prickly huske like to an hedge-hog or Vrchin,which opening it fel e doth let fall the rlizfuered orNut_ This nut is not round, but flat on the one fide,fmooth,and Iharpe p0lnt;Cl ‘traits; gr inn“ with a hard {hcm which is tough and very fmooth, of a darke browne colourt ftihciheu . fuhllance of the nut is hard and white,end couercd with a thin skin whichisvn if teat an-d large. 2 The Hm-[C Chefinut groweth likewife to_be a very great tree, fpreading 5:) 3 There bmm ‘limes or branches fa, abmad, by which meanes it make_th_a very good coole {bra W-re ‘Hons or di_ ‘hes are amifhed with many beautifull leaues, cut or d iuided into fiue_,fiX,0f fifénfloares grow at uififms like to the Cinkefoile, or rather like the leaues ofRz'cimz4, but b‘gg§f° which wme into the t°P of the fialkes. confilting of foure fmall leaues like the Cherry blo ome,
_ _. N alfo round r.‘ °“Dd rough Prickly heads like the former. but more 1l13TP° ‘md hard;r0ut)h§om:t:;:—_eofthe bofofne ,
h £1 E h’ , f ‘ch Cl (whole figure of them I here git-1“. - _ 0EtheelC:)l:r\:’si!(l)Clt1: l:sChCal’PPCl:If1i:4ll,Z of the branch,and tli6Y,“lC many uinumti<e:;tgb(iwtinl5lV¥):)lileP:vto V tie 100g footltalkes éonfiliing each of them of foure whit‘? 1°“1E':5t‘s)iI?:)11§ir mid§lees'_eo’ut of the P9373101} are 8 littlé. large‘ ‘hm the ‘ca’ hailing ri)u[-lddSx’Ll1:lEl)hgcOl§CI] pendants. The fruit is con- middle Ofthc flour‘: come forth many yenomlh t "C d it is roundci and 90:, £0; fllarpe P°finted as
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they are good againft the biting ofa mad dog or man, if they be G,