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Show 336 OFthe BiltorieofPlants. ae Lis.2, vpon fhort ftemsorfoot ftalks,cluftering together in bunches: whichbeing fallen,there do come in place faire and goodly apples, chamfered svneuen, and bunched out in manyplaces; ofa bright fhiningred colour,and the bigneffe ofa goofe egge ora large pippin. The pulpe or meatis verie Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lie. 2e The fruit is round ; and bunched with vneueh Mala Aithiopicas Apples ofAithiopia, lobes or bankes lefler than the golden Apple; of colour red, and ofa firme and follid {ubftances wherein are contained {mall flat feeds. The root is {malland threddy. fullof moifture, foft, reddith, and of the fubftance ofawheat plumme. The {eedis {mallflatand rough: theroot fmall and threddie : the whole Plant is of aranke and ftinking fauour, There hath happened vnto myhands another fort, agrecing very notably with the formers wellin leaues and ftalkes as alfo in floures and roots, onely thefruit hereofwas yellow ofcolom, wherein confifted the difference. Poma Amoris. q The Place. Thefeeds of this plant haue beene brought vnto ys out of Spaine, and alfo fent into France and Flanders : but to what perfection it hath come vnto in thofe parts I am ignorant, bue mine perifhed at the firft approch of Winter. @ The Place. Apples of Loue. His firft original was from Aithiopia, whereofit Apples of Loue growin Spaine, Italie, and fuch hot Countrics, from whence myfelfehaue receiued feeds for my garden,where theydoin. tooke his name, q| The Time, This Plant muft be fowenas Muske-Melons, and at the fame time. Theyfloure in Iuly , and the fruit is ripe in September, | The Names. ereafe and profper. | The Time. Tt is fowne in the beginning of Aprill ina bed ofhot horfe-dung,after rhe manerofmusk Melonsandfuchlike coldfruits. In Englifhwee haue thought goodtocall it the Athiopian Apple,for the reafon before al- ledged : in Latine,; Mala e&thiopica: of fomeit @ The Names. hath been thought tobe Malinathalla, + This is The Apple ofLoueis called. in’ Latine the Solanum pomiferum of Lobel and others; by mum Aureum, Poma Amoris,and Lycoperficum: of which name our-Author alfo formerly hadit, in fome, Glaucium: in Englith, Apples of Low; and Golden Apples:in French, Ponmes damonts, the fiftieth chapter ofthe former edition, the Poets doe fable,growing in the Gardens of the daughters of Hefperus,whicha Dragonwas appointed to keepe,who,as they fablewaskilled by Hercules, | The Temperature. : SAK The ColdenApple, with the wholeherbe t A) SZ felfe is cold, yet not fully fo cold as Mandrake, y J Ke after the,opinion of Dodonaws.But inmy iudgeMent it 1s very cold, yea perhaps in thehighet degree ofcoldneffe:myreafon is,becaufe Ihaue in the hotteft time ofSommercutaway thellt TFS perfluous branches from the mothertoot,aid 5 ZO) a caft them away carelefly in the allies ofmy gt (notwithftanding the extreme heat of the Sun,the hardneffe ofthe troddenallits and at that timewhenno raine atall did fall) haue growne asfreth where I caft them, as before! did cut them off ; whichargueth the great coldneffe contained therein, Trueit is,chat irdothat- gue alfoa great moifture wherewith the plantis poffeffed, but as I haue faid,nor withourgeett cold,which I leaue to euery mans cenfure, ? ; G] The Vertues. A bite fe - hot Syes cy vfetocat the Apples prepared andboiled with Pee sabe. ue: but they yeeld very littlenourifhmentto the bodie, and thefame noughtan Likewife they doe eat the Apples with oile, vineger and pepper mixed together for fauce (° theit meat,euenas we in thefe cold Countries doe Muftard. ee Cua: 61 Of the Ethiopian eApple. @| The Defcription. T He Apple of &thiopia hath large leaues of awhitith greene colour, deepely indented abot the edges, almoft tothe middlerib ; the which middle rib is armed witha few tharpe ee kles. The floures be white,confifting of fix {imal leaues,with a certain yellowpointel in the inhe + @ The Nature. Howbeit there be other golden Appleswhereot The temperature agteeth with the Apple of Loue. q Therertucs, Thefe Apples arenot vfed in phyficke that I canreade of, onely they are vied fora fauceand feruice vnto rich menstables tobe eaten, being fitft boyled in the brothof fat fleth with pepperand falt, and hauea leffe hurtfullinyce than ei~ ther madapples or golden Apples. Car. 62. Of7 hornie-2Aples. q 7he Defiription: He ftalkes of Thorny-applesare oftentimes abouea cubit and ahalfe high, feldome higher, an inch thicke, vpright and ftraight, hauing very few branches, fometimes noneat all, but onevpright ftemme , whereupon doe growleaues fmooth and euen, little or nothing indented about the edges, longer and broader thanthe leaues of Night-fhade,ot ofthe mad Apples. The floures comeforth oflong toothed cups, great, white of the forme of a bell, or like the floures of the great Withwinde that rampeth in hedges; but altogether greater and widerat the mouth, fharpe corneréd at the brimmes, with certaine white chines or thteds in the middeft, ofa ftrong ponticke fauour, offending the head whenit is fmelled ynto: in the place ofthe floure commeth vp roundfruit full of fhort and bluntprickles, of the bigneffe of a gtéene Wallsnut whenit is at the bigeeft,in which are the feeds of the bigneffe of tares or ofMandrakes, arid ofthe fame forme. The herbe ir felfe is ofa ftrong fauor, and doth ftuffe the head,and cauferk drowfinefle. The root is forall and threddy, 2 Thereis another kinde hereofaltogether greater-than the formet,whofe feeds Irecented of the right honorable the Lord Edward Zouch 3 which he brought from Conftantinopl e » andof his liberalitie did beftow themv ponme,as alfo many other rare & ftranige feeds.andit is that Thornapplethat Lhauie difperfed throughthis land; whereofatthis prefent I haue great vfe in Surgery, aswell in burnings andfcaldings, as alfinvirulent and malignevicets,apoftumes,and Thewhichplant hatha verygreat ftalke in fertile ground, bigget than a mans arme, fucli like. fmooth, and Srecne of colour, whicha littleaboue the ground diuidethit {elfe into fundry branches or armes, ‘nmannerof an hedge tree ; whereuponare placed many great leaues cut and indented deepely about |
