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Show 4 4 Genral Defer of piim e .. »v CHAP 0f ROOTS HER BS m" XV FLOWERS and FRUITS REEDS TREES ¥ HE waftand lar e Territories of thi , which reach no far from Eaft to Wet , but alfo from Sout fingle part o to North, occ the Univerfe, {o great fioneth that in iety of Fruits is prod natural caufe whereo ed; the truean is the fevera] temper of the Air (which mu be granted in fo immen of nece it e Territories) it being y experience known, ¢h grow beft under a hot c t {om imate, others under 2 co d, and fome under , wel pered Air ;5 all which are tep o be found in this Count ey The Learned among th fcribed at large in the cach Province doth pro ooks, wha uce : By the view wher of] and other particula ons, this may be affi r ela; med for truth in genera , that 4] things nece {uftenance of Man, as w ary for th ll as for deli to be had there in grea without being behold ours own knowledge aftirm, th And thus much I dare fron t whatfoever js to be had n Enrope, is likewife foun 1 Ching 53 ndif in truth here want any th ng, Nature hath f; upplyed t defe& with divers other t at fingl ings beyond thofe we hav in Europe e obvious to every unde 1t ma flanding, with what2 copt us Harveft of Fruits and V getables, mild Nature ha bleft this Empire, and th briefly di(courfe there of, I fh f as followeth, In Fungping (the chief Ci f Peking) grows a very exc root, and of great efteem, ng, but by the Iflanders of Fap \ ifi: The reafon of the n hinefe name feems to be \\ regard it Artifici pe , i lly refembles a Map 5 1t is ot much unlike to the M dragon rof Europe, only n t is much lefs ; neither o I much doubt but it is a of Mandragon, in regard it or ears with it the fame fhap and vertue. Th;s Roo dryed is yellow of col ur; it is of fweetifh tafte, hich being chewed feems to be mingled wit a lictle bitternefs 5 1t is a reat enlivener of th Spirits of a Man, and there ore f; uch as are of an hot and ft ong conflitution,.endanger their [ives by ufing it in regard of its ftrength ing nature and quality whereas Perfonsweak and f ebe through Sicknefs, or othe wife, find great advan tage in the ufe thereof'; for uch is the {overaign vertue o this Root, that it ha ‘recovered {ome that were b ought to deaths door; for wh chits moft rare qualities, it is become of fo great p ice, that a pound thereof js w ighed againft thre pound of Silver This Root alfo hath made no eao, in the Province of Xunfs which Province produces a g eat many incomparable med cinal Roots and Herbs efpecially Rubarb, which do s not grow wild, as fome re ort, but o the contrary is raifed and encreafed wit great care and diligence. he Root is not hollow but very firm and knotty, t e leaves thereof in {fome for refembling our Cabbageleaves, but mych bigge The Chinefes make a hol through the Roots, and h them up in the thade, whe n e the Sun may not thine up n them ; for the Sun-be extract their vertue from m her, From hence, an from Suchue comes for t Partall the Rubarb whi emof , ;. brought into Europ by Sea, or through the doms of Cafcar, Tebet, Mug ingr, and Perfia Ignorant therefore altoget er are the i | |