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Show 1324 HISTORIE OF PLANTS THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE The fruite or Cherries be calledin Greeke wed, and zsedou: andin Latine likewife cerafa: in Englith Cherries : the Latine and Englifh names in their feuerall titles thall fuflice forthe teft thatmight be faid. 2 Morus albs, The white Mulberie tree ; fet Ibe tr Peo ete Ct 2 The temperature and vertues. A . The beft andprincipall Cherries be thofe that are fomewhat fower : thofelittle fweere ones whichbe wilde and fooneftripe, be the woorft: they conteine bad inice , they very foone putrife, and doingenderill bloud,by reafon whereof they do not oely breede woormesinthe belly, but troublefome agues,andoftenpeftilent fevers : and therefore in well gouerned common wealthes it is carefully prouided, thatthcy fhould not be foldin the markets in the plague time, RB C Spanifh Cherries arelike to thefe in faculties bur they do not fo foone puttifie :theybelikewife i colde, andthe iuicethey make is not.good. The Flaunders or Kentifh Cherries that are through ripe,haue better ivice, bur svaterie, colde and moift:they quenchthirft,theyare goodfor an/hot ftomacke, and profitable for thofe that haue the agew: theyeafily defcende and make the bodie foluble: they nouriih nothing at all. D The late ripe Cherries which the French men keepe dried againft winter, and are by them called Aforelle, and we after the fame namecall them Morell Cherries, are dry,and do fomwhatbind: thefe being dried are pleafant to the tafte,and holefomefor the {tomacke,like as Prunes be, anddo ftop the belly. = Generally all chekinds of Cherries are cold and moift of temperature, although fome more cold and moift thenothers : the which being eaten before meate do foftenthe belly very gently’, they ftoare vnholfome eitlier vnto moifte and rheumatike bodies , or for ynhealthie’ and colde mackes, f F Thecommonblacke Cherries do ftrengthenthe ftomack, and are holfomerthen thered Chetries the whichbeing dried do ftop the laske. G_— Thediftilled water of Cherriesis good for thofe thatare troubled with heateand inflammations in their ftomackes,and preuaileth againft the falling ficknes giuen mixed with wine. Manyexcellent Tartes,and other pleafant meatesaremade with Cherries,Sugar,and other delicate {pices whereof to write were to {mall purpofe. may do I. The gumofthe Cherrie tree taken with wine and water,is reported ro helpethe ftonesit ofthe humors, good by making the paflages flippery, and by tempering andal aying the fharpnes thacit maketh one well andin this maner it is a remedyalfo for an old cough: Dzofeorides addeth : coloured,cleereth the fight,and caufeth a good appetite tomeate. H ob The place be | taing and other hot regions, where they do maintree is e plentifully ialtalie wormes rie trees grow Mulberie ulbeand The TheM thereon. feede may Silke theit that them, groues of feat woods grafted in awhite tlyfet by the flip ; it mayalfo begrafted or inoculated into many trees, being Thele growe Poplaric bringeth foorth white Mulberies, as Beritiusin his Geoponikes reportech, . ipfundrie gardens in England . ke sa te The time. ; Ofthe eMulberie Tree. colde weather erie doth laft bloome, andnot before the all the treesin the orchard the Mulb Of t tree) Se which time the wilef irthe call to voont W refs May(thherefore the olde writers were woo : isgonein . henner andnourith shemielaes IkS Wotmes do feeme to reuiue,as hauing then wherewith ro feede Stke ae Chap 125- the dunging of ® Af ae althe winterbefore, doclic like {mall graines or feedes, i Bs » Thedelcrivti ; aa boughes: the bodie thereofis ae fullof and , o He common Mulberic treeis high c leaves are broade a pare great; the barke rugged ; and that ofthe roote yellow: the offlowers,ate a ee {tcede in 5 edges the on nicked and harde, pointed, fomething graines ,"K°" ie oflittle number a of vp made long, fruiteis the downie: are catkins, which and when: it 1s 1p greene, firft atthe ter, muchgrea and longer, thicker, blacke Berrie, but er Beene noftas peat gee eet ee wales. many parted rooteis the : red full, is blacke , yet is the iuice whereof it dly ftature, al 2 Thewhite Mulberie tree groweth vntill ithe come vito great and goo jaipt about the ¢ ge = big a3 the former:the leaues are rounder,notfo fharppointed,nor fo deepely taftinglike wine i the fruiteislike the former,but thatiris white and fomewhat more : — cheif-proper time both to performe them outic Ypona glaffe : to maintaine and prelerue cern 2s Mite es: f Dgibvewhh aie Pr . the ich they were created, and alfowhenthey may Nat helt owne bodies,vnto their bufines aforefaid. rrees in his afirmeth,t hatthe Mulberie _Thebetries are ripein Auguit. Hegefander ip Athenaws > of the gout then dh togither,and that fo great 4p nes : Ume di eae aa ee fruitin twentie ai but boyes swenches, eunuc sand women were toubled with o.genctally,as not onely m that difeafe. % The namese a oe iia ops Morus Cali: it high : Pee. Latine Morus ; infh in ANE Ba iccis namped in Greeke Moyiz and axsyiria: arser: n Englifh Mul Ale nch boom: in Fre inlowe Dutch © n : inlowe Dutch weerbelie tch Bailberbati aun: ae ; saok h Dutch ‘oyun CLE - ip‘ohhiFlulberie. ir fhops Morw ; Lati; ne n in : ror: in n io F and avechu Aforwn: fruit called Mies The itis Spe nd Mores: 10 EU ea rd Mo French Aewre:1n opant oe POtOcfie sin Italian AZoyo: in nd aplee * Theremperaturea drie almolti het a monte M. bej re they be ripe,are colde an iesies being gathered befo Mulber ulbet |