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Show ae ee arene Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. x Caftanea, Cheftauttree. Li: 3 Lis. 3. Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 14.43 mileand a halfe from Feueffham in Kent, and in fundry other places : in fome countries they be creater and pleafanter: in others {maller, and of worfetafte. ° The Horfe Cheftnut groweth in Italy, and in {undry places of the Baft countries. $ Itisnow srowing with M*. Trade[cant at South Lambeth. + 2 Castanea Equina cumflore, Horfe Cheftnut tree in floure, ° q The Time. not Theblowings or aglets come forthwith che leaués in Aprill ; but the Nutslater, andbe ripe till Autumne. The Names. Dutch, wea The Chefinut tree beares the name ofthe Nut both in Greeke atidLatine : inhighfenbaumt, and Isattanibaumt: in low- Dutch, Caftaniboomt:in French, Ca/aigmer : in Englith, Cheftnut tree. ; : in high- Dutch The Nut is called in Greeke, Keswa : in Latine,Caftanea,fouis elans,Sardinia glans : Felten :in low-Dutch, Caftanies: in Italian,Ca/tagne : in French,Chaftaigne : in Spanith,Morozes, Gafanes : in Englith,C heftnut : the greater Nuts be named ofthe Italians,Marrans: ofthe French nen and ofdivers bafe Almaines, Aarons, Cheftnut,for that The Horfe Cheftnut is called in Latine, Equina Caftance : in Englith, Horfe tnefle thepeople ofthe Eaft countries do withthe fruit thereof cure their horfes ofthe cough,thor ofbreath, and fuchlike difeafes. q The Temperature and Veriues. Ourcommon Cheftnuts are very dry and binding, and be neither hot nor cold,but inameanbe- Al tweeneboth: yet hane they in thema certaine windineffe, and by reafonof this, valeffe the fhell befititeut, they skip fuddenlywitha cracke out ofthefire whileft they be rofting. B Ofall the Acornes, faith Gales, the Cheftnuts are the chiefeft, and doe onely of all thewilde fnits yeeld ro the body commendable nourifhment; but they flowly defcend,they be hardly conthey cofted, they make a thicke bloud, and ingender winde: they alfo ftay the belly, efpecially if be eaten raw. € Being boiled or rofted they arenotoffo hard digeftion, they moreeafily defcend, and are lefle : windy, yet they alfo make the body coftiue. Someaffirme, that ofraw Cheftnuts dried,and afterwards turned into meale, there is made a D andvekinde of bread : yet it muft needs be, that this fhouldbe dry and brittle, hardly concoéted, the ordinary Cheftnur,neither vad er thevt- ter coat hath it any peeling within as theo ther hath,neitheris it of fogooda talte. + #3 This Americane Cheftnut is almoft round, but thatic isa little Aatted on Thebarke ofthe Cheftnut tree boiled inwine and drunke,ftops the laske, the bloudyflix, and F illother iffues of bloud. ee ose eastoeSe ite the fides, efpecially whereas it is faftned to Cuar. 92. Of the Beech tree. the ftalke : the vtter coat is fufliciently thicke, yet brittle, and asir were fungous,! a brownith yellow colour : vnder this ate # boundanceoffmall yer ftiffe prickles » fatt fticking to the fhell tharcontaines the ker- nell : the thellit felfe is brownif{h,n0tts but tough and hard to breake, fmoorh an fhining on the infide,wherein is contained 4 kernel ofthe bigneffe and colour ofan bares kidney, white within; andfweet in raftelike an almond or the commonCheftnut. “#”- wscals this Caffanea Peruana, ot Chelto Peru; and hee faith hee had it fromt mous Geographer Abrahamortelins whe had it fent him by Benediétus Arie MO" nus, Thefigure is expreft ynder that of the Horfe Cheftnur. + q The Place. Thefirft growes on mountaines 4% dowie places, and manytimes inthe? they loue a foft and blacke foile. The fundry woods of Cheftauts in Ens ~ bloudy flix. tiflowin paffing thorow the belly; but this bread may be good againft the laske and and {pitting & An Ele@uarie ofthe meale of Cheftnuts and hony is very good againft the cough dfbloud. @ The Defiription: e, and with HeBeechis anhightree, with boughesfpreading oftentimes in manner ofacircl hard,and verie athicke body hauing manyarmes: the barke is {rnooth: the timberis white, blacke Poplar: the profitable : the leaues be {mooth,thin, broad, and leffer than thofe ofthe catkins or blowingsbe alfo leffer and fhorter than thofe of the Birchtree,and yellow : thefruit or Malis contained ina huske or cup thatis prickly, and rough briftled, yet not fo muchas that of he Cheftnut : whichfruit being taken forth of the fhells or vrchin husks, be couered witha foft ad fmooth skin like in colour and fmoothneffe to the Cheftauts, but they be much leffer,and of is {weet, with a cerforme, that is to fay, triangled or three cornered: the kernell within “other and little lower than Sine aftriion or binding qualitie : the roots be few, and grow not deepe, Wetthe turfe. q The Place. ForThe Beechtree loueth a plaine and open countrey, and groweth very plentifully in many vfs and defart places of Suflex, Kent, and fundryother countries. @| The Time. ’ : TheBeech floureth in Aprill and May,and the fruit is ripe in Se ptember, at whattime the ae docate the fame very srecdily, as greatly delighting therein; w hich hath cauled forrefters “huotimento call it Buck-maft. a] The ar |
