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Show Of the Hiftorie of Plants, Li B3, L {Ba 3 1 Prunus Domeftica. Arbutus. TheStrawberry tree, The Damfontree. @ The Place, Ofthe Hiftory ot Plants. 1497 2 Prunus Mirobalana. The Mirobalane Plum tree. The Strawberry tree groweth in moft Comp; tries of Greece, in Candy,Italy, and Spaincalfo in the vallies of the mountaine Athos,wherebe. ing in other places but little, they become preat hugetrees, as P.Bellonius writeth. Juba alfo tenor. teth, that there be in Arabia of them fifty cubits high. They grow onlyin fome few gardens with vs, @ The Time, The Strawberry tree flourethin Tuly and guft, and the fruit is tripe in September, Ay: after it hath remained vpon the tree by the {pace of an whole yeare. @ The Names, This tree is called in Greck, xiveesr: Arbutus : in Englith, Strawberry tree,in Latine) and of fome, Arbutetree, The fruit is named in Creeke, puxsjara, or as others reade it, gusiuay : in Latine, Memety lum, and Arbutus; and Pliny calleth it Ynedo : Ground , Strawberries(f{aith he)haue one body,and neds, muchlike vnto them, another body,whichonely inapple islike to the fruit ofthe earth : The Ita- lians call this Strawberry Albatro:the Spaniards, Madrono, Medronheyro, and Medvonho: in French, Arboutes, Arbous : It may be termed in Englith, Tree Strawberry. A @ The Temperature andV ertues. The fruitofthe Strawberry tree is of a cold tempera ture,hu the ftomacke, and caufing head-ache ; wherefore no wholefomefood, thoughit be eaten inrting fome places by the poorerfortof people. Cuar.126, Ofthe Plumtree. | The Kindes, T. Owrite of Plumsparticularly would require a peculiar volume, and yet the end not tobe at ; tained vnto,northe ftocke or kindred perfetly knowne,neither to be diftinguifhed apart: the numberoftheforts or kindes are not knowne to any one countrey :euery Clymar hath his ow a fruit, far different from that ofother countries : myfelfe haue three fcore forts in my garden, an all ftrange and rare : there be in other places Mahy more common,and yet yearely commeth s; handsothers not before knowne , therefore a few figures fhall ferue forthe reft. + Let fuc : " requirea larger hiftorie of thefe varieties haue recourfeto the oft mentioned kinfon : and {uchasdefire the things themfelues mayfinde moft ofthe beft Worke of ~ na with M*, John Miller it Old ftreet. $ z G The Defcription. He Plum or Damfontree is ofa meane bigneffe: it is couered with a {mooth osa = the branchesare long, whereon do growbroad leaues, more long than tound, nt a in the edges: the floures are white: the Plums dodiffer in colour,fafhion,and * * they all confit ofpulpeand skin, and alfo of kernell, which is {hut vp in a fhell or ftone- eon -Plumsare of a blackith blew, ofwhich fome be longer,others rounder, others of the eoloug: lowwax,diners ofa crimfon red,greater for the moft part than the reft. There be alfogreen P andwithall very long; ofa feetand pleafant tafte: moreouer,the pulpe or meate of fone 18 e and ealilier feparated from the ftone : ofother-fomeit is moifter,and cleaueth fafter: our com® Damfonis knownetoall, and therefore not to be {food vpon, » The 5 Prunus fyluftris. The Sloe tree. |
