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Show oar eeet 274 , HISTORIE OF PLANTS THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE ofawhite colour , and fometimes changing into purple, made of fixe parts, w ideopen ikea fare Ofapples of Lone. with certaine yellowe chiues or thrums in the middle 3 which being paft the fruite commeth in place,fetina cornered cup or huske after the manerof the great Nightfhade, greatandfommhy long,ofthe bigneffe of a fwans egge, and fometimes much greater, ofa whitecolour, fometin ellowe, and often browne, wherein is conteinedfinall flat feede of a yellowe colour, The toa is thicke,with many thredsfaftned thereto. Poms Amoyis. Apples ofLoue, # The defeription. He apple of Loué bringeth foorth Malainfana, Madde otraging Apples. %& Theplace. long round ftalkes or braunches full ofiuice, trailing vpon tl This plant groweth in Egypt almofteug where in fandie fieldes euerrof it felic, bringin foorth fruite of the bignes ofa great Cucumber, as Petrus Bellonius reportethinthe fecond books ofhis fingular obferuations, Wehaue hadthe fame in our London gardens, where it hath borne flowers, but thewintet a proching before the timeofripening,iepenthe notwithftanding it came. to, beare fruite of th bignes of agoofe egge one: extraordinati¢ tt perate yeere, as Idid fee in the garden ota nor fhipfull merchant, Mafter, Harwse in Limeltree, butneuer tothefull ripeneffe. % Thetime. not able tofuftaine himfelfe ypri the tendernefleof the ftalkes, and alfo the great ight of the leaues and fruite wherewith it is are great and deepelycut or iagged about the edges, not vnlike to leaues of Agrymony, but greater, & of av greene colour: among which come foorth 3 flowers growing vpon fhort {tems orfoot cluftering togither in biiches : which bei theredocome inplacefaire and goodly apples, chamfered, yneeuen,, and bunched out in mani¢ places ; of a bright fhining redde colour and the bignes ofa Goofe eggeora large pepin. The pulpe ormeatis veryful ofmoifture,foft,reddith, and ofthe fubftaunce of a whcate plumme. The {eede is {mall, flat andrough:theroote fmall and threddie: the whole plantis of aranke and ftinke ing fauour, There hath happened ynto my handes anoz ther fort, agreeing very notablie with the former,as well in leaues andftalkesas alfo in flowers This herbe muftbe fowenin Aprillinabedd! hot horfe dung, as muske Melonsare, andfior reth in Anguft, %& The names, Petrus Bellonius hath indged it tobe Mali thelle Theophrafti, In the DukedomeofMila it is called ofthe Infubres —Melongena : anda fome Melanzana: in Latine ala sfanas and rootes, onely the fruite heereofwas yellowof glifh Madde Apples; in the Germaine tool colour, wherein confifted the difference, DMoilopiiel sin Spanith Yerangents. % The place. Apples ofLoue do growe Feceluedfeedes for mygarderin Spaine, Italic, and fuch hot countries, from whence myfelfe haue , where they do increafe and profper. o | % The nature. This herbe is coldealmoft in the fourth # gree, ind deedta re _— c = ee Sy % The vfeanddange S %& The time. It is fowen cain ; thebeg . : : Pi ning of Aprill ina bed of hot horfe dung after the maner ofmuske Me- ‘f ger. : 1 of Aeete : eae ee with rl Soe great deuotion being boiled with fat flefle 5 puss ne icraped cheefe,which the ae ; : all winter sop 2 cure luft, #haluch like colde fruits. % The names. _Lbeapple ees ofTou! ve 3 ue Pomum Aurcum, Pome Amoris, and Lycopertinam, of fome Clanciym « y dokeepein vineger,honie,or falt pickell,all . Egypt and Barbarie, : they vfeto ate ete Barbarusteport,that in beother pide, ae Pi Oi oe orrofted vynder afhes with oile,vineger, and pepper, as people a . ofour owne counttey, ‘h : her withe Englith men to content themfelues with the meate es aba keehe Chap.s Ss then withfruite and fauce eaten with fuch perill ; for doubtleffetheleapt™ cae : heeuous qualitie,the vfe whereofis vtterly to be forfaken. And as welee and know’ kinds “om chart oe do eate Serena more for wantonneffe then for neede: fo the s nemous ‘ “a : Lag coo ke, oa procure vntimely death ad deadly > which being in the handling of an ynskilfull denfor yourpl Y eat. Therefore it is better to efteeme this plant and haue himinl = Yourpicature and the rareneflé thereof, then for any vertue or good qualities yer'm oue > andgolden apples: in French Rervaes damours: howbeit Heferwe: which a rereofthe poets do fable growing in the gardens of the daughters #419800 was appointed tokeepe, who, as theyfable; was killed by Herenles. hegolden Ap a go % The temperature. aftetthe opinion ory iat re hewhole herbeit felfe iscolde » yet not fully fo colde as Mandrake, oe i ‘ cofcoldneffe : 1 0eae ss my judgement itis verycolde, yea perhaps in the higheft de- SUOUs eke, — iss vicaufe Thaue in the hotteft time of fommer cutaway the fuper} inte, Bigepee foote', and caft them away catelefly in the allies ofmygarden, Fes 115 Eee heate of the funne, the hardneffe of the troden allies, and braunc te whic} M$ whichat Bit il all did fall) haue growen as frefliwhere Icaft them,as before I did cut “ye tae great coldneffe conteined therein. Trueiris thatit doth arguealfo herewiththe plant is poffefied,but as [haue faide not withoutgreat cold , which » etery Ma ns cer C. S23 % The |