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Show The Orchard. The Orchard, banquets, and much moreforthe Phyficall vertue s , whereof to at largeis neither conuenient for mee, nor for this worke : I will OnelyWrite brieg recite fome, asit were to giue youatafteof that plent y remaineththerein to bee conuerted inte fundryformes : as firft for the table, while freth (and all the yeare long after being pickled vp)to be baked they are , as a dainty dith, being welland orderly cookt. And being preferued wholein Sugar either white or red, feruc likewife,not onely asan after difht o clofe y the ftomacke, butis placed among other Preferues by Ladies and Gentlewo. men, and beftowed ontheir friends to entertaine them » and amongot her forts of Preferues at Banquets. Codimacke alfo and Marmilade, Telly and Patte, are all made of Quinces, chiefly for deligh t and pleafure, although they haue alfo with them fome phyficall properties. Wehaucfor thevf{eof phyficke, both luyceand Syrupe, both Conferue and Condite, both binding and loofening medicines, both inwar and d out. ward, andall made of Quinces. The Telly or Muccilage ofthe feedes > is often vfed to belaid vpon womensbreafts,to heale them being fore orrawe, by their childrens defaule giuing them fucke. Athenzus reciteth in his third booke, that one Phila rchus found , that the {mell of Quincestooke awaythe ftrengthof a certai Phariacum. Andthe Spaniards haue alfo found, that ne poifon, called the ftrength of the iuyceof white Ellebor(which the Hunters vfe as a n to dippe their arrow heads in, that they fhoote at wilde beafts topoyfo kill them) is quite taken away, if it ftand within the compafle of the {melof Quinces. And alfo that Grapes, being hung vpto bee kept, and {pent in Win- nter', doe quickly rot with the fell of a Quince, fie fy 7K ij Yi Ly fil HILT Hep ona NW a IN i\ beo8 AW \ ANS Cuar. XXI. 4, Ss YZ Ys Pyra. Peares. ‘T= variety of peares is as much or more then of apples, and Ithinkeit is as hard inthis, as SB WE Zs beforeinapples,,’ for any to be numbervp all the forts that areto be had : for foexquifite, as that heecould nie, as I fhall giue you thenames of by and by, ‘and wee havein our country fo ma are hitherto cometo our knowledge : but [verily beleeuethat therebe many , bothi n our country, and in others, that Wwe haue notyet knowneor heard of; for euery yeare almoft wee attaine'to the knowledge offome, we knew notof before. Take there fore,aecording tothe mannerbefore held, the defctiption ofone, with the feuer all names ofthe reft, vatilla more ex’ aé difcourfe be had of them, eueryone apar The Pearetree groweth more flowly,butts hi tree, andnotleffe in the bulke of the bod but growe vprighter and clofer t gofthem,asin applesetheroote growet gas vatiablein the pathering and h deeper then the applerree, and oe — longer, and giuctha fafter,clofer, & fmoother geritle wood, eafic ghtvpon. LO Thekindes ofPeares, The Summer bon Chretien is fomewhat2 long peare , with a greene and yellow ruffetith coare, and wil] haue fomet imes red fides jit isripeat Micha elmas : fome we todrythemastheydoe Prunes > and them ‘all the yeare after. I haue not feene orheard any mere Surames kindes hergkeepe of thenthis one,itid aéedeth nd wall co nee itasthe other, The Portings ums, i, (ya0nsem Lufitanic “a a0 o Quince tree. : ee Rripe Péare or fas (Corones, The Qui 3 Malis 5 F yrs B a wn yel triatum, The parated ce Byemale. The Winter Bon Chreti¢a. Vslemame, VOCa P &P prea Ch CECE Ts reri Bon Bon a janum afivurs. The Supper Pe. l Gratio he 7 P Pyrum ¢ (ucumer maim fize Pomepe' num,.T usm om Cucerri r Pearce. 31 Pyram( 20 Pynen Windferianum, The Windfo ine Pyrum Pampesarum fins ( wewme: ine fa. The Burgomot Prare, Pal ; Li l The pound Peard, Pyrnrs 9. Braeh (Warden. Se Nt , lofloweePeare. |