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Show The Corollary to this Orchard. 604. fants maketh mention, tobe thefirtt Alaterans that Clufius hath fet forth in his Hi. Bay of rarer plants ; yet I finde, that Clufius himfelfe before his death dothappro. piate chat Ce/a/irws of Theophraltus to another plant , growing in the Garden ar Ley. den, which formerlyof diuers had beenetakento bea kinde of Laarys Tinus, orthe wilde Baye; butheimpugningthat opinion for divers refpects , decyphret h Outthat Leydentree ia the fame manner that I doe: and becaufeit isnot onely faire,in bearing his leaues alwayes greene, but rare alfo, being nourfed vp in ourLand in very few plas ces, but principally with a good old Lady, the widow of Sir lohn Leuton, dwelling neere Rochefterin Kear; Ithought it fic to commend it foran Ornament, toadorne : thisour Garden and Orchard. Ir groweth vptothe height of a reafonable tree, the body whereofis couered with adaike coloured barke, asthe elder branchesareinlike manner ;the younger branches being greene , whereon are fet divers Jeaues thicke tos gether, two alwayes ata ioyne;dne againft another , of a fad but faire greene colour on the vpperfide,and paler ynderneath,whicharelittle er nothing at all {nipped abone theedges, as largeas the leaucsof the Lawrms Tins , or wilde Bayetree: at theendof the young branches breakeforth between the léeanes divers fal! ftalkes, with foure or fiue flowers on cach of them, ofa yellowith greene colour,whichturne into {mall ber. ries, of the bignefit of blacke Cherries, greeneat the firft;and red when they beginto beripe, but growing blackeifthey hang too long vponthe branches, wherein is cons tained-a hard thell,and.a white hard kernell within it, couered with a yellowith skin, Thisabide : Ye uy Dy + ie Abul =A WNRES Sea FS SEN : : : th (as I faid before) with greene leaues as well Winter as Summer 3and therefore fitteltto be plaatedamongotherofthe fame nature, to make an cuer greene hedge.. The Vie of Clufius his Celaftrus. q | aay Being fo great a ftranger in this part of the Chriftian world, I know none hath made ie tryall ofwhat propertyit is, but that the tafte ofthe leaues is fomewhatbitter. : 10. Pyracantha, The ewet greene Hawthorne, orprickly Corall tree. pm4 His euer greene fhrubbeis fo fine an Ornament toa Garden or Orchard, \ Wg ——< = ae 42 ‘ SNe tobe nourfed vp into a {mall tree byit felfe, by pruining and taking away the fuckers and vnder branches,orbyfiuffering it to grow withfucke rs, thickeand plathing the branchesinto a hedge,for thatit is plyableto be ordered either waysthat : Ng Y ie S either Ne24) ‘ex = La SW) ZAI , uN =A S A Ci Icould notbut giue you the knowledgetheteof, with the defcription in this manncte The younger branches are couered with a {mooth darke blewith greene barke, and theelder witha more ath coloured,thicke fet with leaues without order, fomegreatet and others fmaller, fomewhat like both in forme and bigneffe vnto the leauesof the Barberry tree, but fomewhat larger, and morefnipt about the edges, ofa deepergrecn colour alfo,and with {mall long thornes {cattered here & there vponthe branches:th¢ flowers comeforthas well at the ends ofthe branches, as atdivers places at the ioymts of the leaues,ftanding thicke together,ofa pale whitith colour,a little da(ht ouer with a thew ofbluth , confifting offine leaues a peece, with ll threads inthe mid: dle, which turne into berries, very like vnto Hawthornefome{ma berries, but much redder and dryer, almoft like polithed Corall, wherein are contained foure or fiue fimall yellowilh white three fquare feeede, fomewhat fhining. Itis thought te bethe Oxyacanth a of Di- ofcorides; but feeing Diofcorides doth explaine the formeof theleafe in his Chaptet ofMedlars, which heconcealed inthe Chapter of Oxyacantha,it cannot be the lane for Afefpilus Anthedon ofTheophraftus , or -¢ronia of Diofcori des 5 haththeleafeo Oxyacantha,as Diofcoridesfaith, or of Smalladge, as Theophraftus , which cannot agree tothis Thorne; but doth moft linely delineate out our white Thorne ot HaWthorne, that now there is nodoubr > but that Oxyacantha of Diofcorides isthe Ha” thornetree 6r buth. The V{e ofthis Corall tree, : Although Lobel maketh mention , t fy, and of this: tree to grow bothin Italy, 28? ifey Prouince : a Lissa firs Theopbraltfté ClufiogS ” Colaftrys Clufio.CluG $ ini at er. greom prickly oral sree ind hig Celattrys, 2927 Boxe. Lhe lows or dmarfc Boxs. erbor.The Boxe tree Buxus bumuis. Larchtrees ; ’ pri ma. The Sauine tres. 6 5Savi Beez 3 Taxs Palswrs |