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VQ(}{3 {hart items or lootfial'ires,clul‘rering together in bunches‘: which being fallen there cflwoebci hr in place iaire and goodly apples, chamfered, vneuen, and bunched out in many places 5 o a _ 1' av . i 1 ' i ' C" ' rhiriiiig red colour, and the bignepe of a goofe egge or a large pippin. Thhe piulpeo? mﬁﬁttvana fllllOl§“i‘i()ll’l?LET€,,iOliT,Y€(iCllﬂ'),aDCl0fCl1Cll.lbP£3.DCC ofawheat plumme. e eeti is ma Jin- - Y‘! . *'1‘:l“r;:*Ot {mall and threddy : the whole plant is of a ranke and Ptinking fauour.

. . ‘ . ll / in he. ppened vnto my hands another forgagreeing very notably with the former,as W4?» V

.5 llallres alfo in ﬁoirres and roots,onely the fruit hereof was yellow ofcoloiir,wlie.te«

1; Tire Plate.

Piiaims mi!’/5's“ . A l_l3':.iC. . 7 . . . .. V l ‘ ' Apples of Lo_ue grow in Spaine, Italic, 311‘: fuch hot Countries,from'whence my felfc h8_“ V receiued feeds for my gardemwhere theyfdoe 1”’ , A creafe and prof per. ’ M «Y T56 Time.

WK ’ ‘Iris fowne in thebeginning or Aprillina

bed g§‘~\ of hot horfe-dung,aftcr the maner of muske M‘ "' ions and fuch like cold fruits. q} The Names. _ _ The Apple of Lone is called in Latine Pom”? Aurmm,Poma Amorigand Lyrtp>er{icum.- offotél 5 Glaucmmrin Engli{h,Apples o Loue,and G01 56 I A ppleszin French,Pamme: d’4ma:m.l-lowbeit thcfg‘ I be ml; er golden Apples whereof the Poets doe biejgmwingin the Gardens of the daughters 0 l H:j7‘eI‘m'._WlllCl1 aDragon.was appointed to lc€€P"1 who, as they fable, was killed by Hercules. 1} Tire ’Tem_;:tr4fW¢’. .t The Golden Apple, with the whole herbc felfe is cold, yet not fully fo cold as Mandrakféix terthe opinion ofDoa’m.em._l3ut in my iudgemece it is very cold, yea perhaps in the liigheﬁ d_cgr ofcoldneffe: my reafon is,becaufe I haue In ‘us hottefl time of Summer cut away the fupcrﬂllom. branches from the mother £005 and C3“ the away carelefly in the allies of my Garden, ‘ which (notwithftanding the extreme heate 0%‘ at Sun, the hardneffe of the trodden a1lies,an “C that time when no rain at all did fal)haue grow .

. 31‘ as from where I call them,as before I did cut tl1ClI1~0ﬁ'-5 which alglvleth ‘he gm“ Cold“ {re Com

. - - u . ned thereiti.True it is,that it doth argue alfo a great moillure wherewith the Flam ‘S Polreﬂéd" A

as I haue faid,not without great cold,which I 163% $0 CU“-YY mam Ccnfmc‘ q] The V ertuer.

A . . r In Spaine and thofe hot Regions they vfe toeavte the Applﬁs P‘°P‘"°d and bolled Wlth P“Pl’§,.’ .

. . d C faltgapnd Oyle :but they yeeld very little nourifhment to the body, and the fame naught an I rupt- _ . . - - i e 90 Likewifc they doe care the Apples with oile,vineg_re and pepper mixed together for fauc their ineat,euen as we in thefe cold countries doe MllﬁaYd-

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C H A 1». 61. of;/ye Ethiopian e/fpple.

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_ .. , - - ml ' The ﬂouresbewhite, conﬁllirigofﬁx fmall leaues,W1U1 =ta1nyc1a°wi>°m1‘“‘“° the

' ' ' 9- n - He Apple or rliiiilliopla hath large leaues of a whitiflq we colgUTa_d1‘:‘3Pif1Y Engine P ‘ the e(_lg‘e533‘“nQ{{ [0 the Ilbgthﬂ’. WhlC‘lI mICldiC 1'1. , » iifltk. WIE 2 EW 1 P

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IIWLI 13- 2.’ ()l“tl1CM;Hllil2O1‘lC of Plants. A I

Mala uﬁtéiopia.

The fruit is round, vneuen I Apples ofxﬁthiopia.

lobes or bankes lelfer than the golden Apple,of colour red, and of a ﬁrme and follid fubitance 5 wherein are contained. fmall flat ft-eds.The root is fmall and thredd y.

qr ‘T/2e Place.

The feeds of this plant haue beene brought vnto vs out of Spaine, and al (0 fent into France and Flaunders: but to what perfection it hath

I come vnto in thofe parts I am ignorant ; but '_ mine periflied at the ﬁn‘: approach of Winter. I-lis ﬁrlt originall was from Ethiopiagevherof it toolre his name. ' T /1: ‘Time.

This plant mull be fowne as Mtislre-melons"; and at the fame time. They floure in Iuly, and the fruit is ripe in September.

qr The Names.

In Englilh we haue thought good to call it the Ethiopian Apple, for the reaf on before al- ledged :in Latine, M414 uﬁtbiopica .- of fome it hath been thought to be Malimztlm/la. It This is the Salanum Pomifcrum of Loéel and others ;by which name our Author alfo formerly had ital“ the ﬁftieth chapter of the former edition. 1:

The Nature.

The temperature agreeth with the Apple of

Loue.

75¢’ Vertrm.

Thefe Apples are not vfed in Phylic_l<e that I can reade oﬂonely they are vied for a lance and ﬁr“ b , _ fcruice vnto rich mens tables to be eaten, being mad Oiled in the broth of fat ﬂefh with pepper and falt, and haue a lelfe hurtfull juyce than either

Apples or golden Apples.

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C H A P‘. 47. Of Tbornie eﬂ 1711/6’!- q TlvcDefZ'rz'p!ion.

‘ Tile llalltes of"I’horny.apples are oftentimes aboue a cubit and a halfe high, feldome‘ higher, an inch thicke, vpright and ﬁraight, hauing very few branches, fometimes limo 0 none at all, but one vpright {lemme ; whereupon doe grow leaues fmooth and cum, t e T nothing indented about the edges, longer and broader than the leaues of Nightfhade, or hell‘ Omﬁd Apples. The ﬂoures come forth of long toothed cups,great,white,of the forme ofa and: _T Ike the ﬂoures of the great Withwindethat rampeth in hedges ;but altogether greater the midgr in the mouth, fharpe cornered at the brimmes,with certaine white chiues or threds in the ﬂo €fl,of a llrong ponticke {auourplfending the head when it is fmelled vnto : in the place of

nut W ':rC.CQmmCtl} vp round fruit full of ﬂiort and blunt ptickles of the bigneffc of a green Walla \ drapes n at ‘S at ‘I15 blggefl, In which are the feeds ofthe bigneffe of rates or of the feed of Man- caufetliiaclll 0Fth<‘- fame forme. The herbe it felfe is of a iltong fauor, and doth {tulle the head, and 2 rowlineffe. The root is fmall and threddy. _ , the ri tire is another kinde hereof altogether greater than the former, whofe feeds I receiued of HberagI_1t_ gtiourable the Lord Edward Z0146/J 5 which he broiight from Conllantinople, and Ollns apple tripe Ii: bellow them vpon me,as alfo many other rare and {irange fceds;and it is that Thorn, as We“ _ atb ape difperfed through this land,whc.i-eof at this prefent I haue greatvfe in piirgery 6 will h‘“1“1Hgs and fcaldings, as alfo in virulent and maligne vlcers, apol.’tumes,and1uCli like. greene (E Pl ant hathavery great ﬂalke in fertile ground,biggcr then a mans arme, fmootliand in mm C0 OUT. which a little about: the ground diuideth it felfeinto fundry branches or artnes “¢f0f3I1 hedge tree; whereupon are placed many great leaues cut and .ind.ented deepely ‘ about