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Show Of the Hiftorie of Plants, Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 2 The Mirobalan Plum tree groweth tothe armes or boughes, which diuide themfelues into height of a great tree, charged with Many grext {mall twiggy branches, by means whereofityee. deth a goodly and pleafant thadow: the trunke or bodyis couered witha finer and thinner barke than anyofthe other Plumtrees : the leaue s ght outof of Spaine boiled witith Mead orhonied being boile Spaines; being ntout t yetleffer than os — ee in it,they loofe the belly very much (as oe ae palin Dcchonghe ae them alone by themfelues,and much moreif the Mes ; Nee ist beginning, red whenit isalmot ripe, full ripe it glifterethlike purple mixed and being with blacke: the fleth or meate is full ofiuice pleafane b talte : the ftone is {mall,or ofa meane bigne ffe : the in times paft ofthe Prowince of the Matcomans: fort = seaaicitts Denn chiefe and1 principal! ihumour may be confumed away, be moft pleafant to we o é an bdeieedly , % mollifie the belly,as that in that refpeét they go beyond Caffia an any t Salaryeioableto without are very tender, indented about the edges : thedo fomewhatrefemble thofe ofthe Cherry tree, they floures be white ithe fruit is round, hangingy long foot-ftalkes pleafant to behold, fa greene in the tree bringethforth plenty offruit cuery other eare, : 3 The Almond Plum growethvp to the height of4 tree of micane bigne are long, fmooth, and even: the leaue ffe: the branches s are {mall nerves running through the fame broad, fomthing long, and ribbed indiuers places,with ple fearcelyto be perceiued: the fruit is: the floures are white, fprinkled with alittle dath of pyr. long, hauing a cleft downe the middle, of a browne red colour, and ofapleafant ratte, 4 The Damafcen Plumtree growethli kewife to a meane height, the brariches the leaues of a deepe green colour: the very brittle, fruit vnto that of the Cherry, wherein it diffe is round, ofablewith blacke color: the ftoneis like reth from all other Plums. 5 The Bulleffean d the Sloe tree are wilde kindes of Plums, which do vary in their as the greater and manured Plums do. Of the Bulleffe, fomeare greater and of better kind, even others. Sloes are fome of one tafte, talte than and fome ofothers, more tharpe ; fome greater,and others fer; thewhich to diftineuith with long lef. defer and éuery ofthem knowne even vato the fimpliptions werero final] purpofe,confideringthey beall eft : therefore this fhall faffice for their feuetal {criptions, de. q The Place. The Plum trees growinall knowne of theworld ; they require a loofe ground, fo receiue a difference from the regionscountries theyalwhere theygrow, not only of the formeor fafhion, but ctpecially ofthe faculties, as wewill forthwith declare. The Plum trees are alfo many times graffed water, faith)although a man send thofe ofHungarie being long and fweet,yet more wore 4 er mie . ea — nem od againft thefwelling ofthe Vuula,the throat, gums; 8 kerone Phan sthey hope theume and falling downe of humors, ifthe deco@ia vnder osune nelsahathe dk: argled in the mouthand throat. wi in d D Déafcorides together,as faften and glew doth : eth i Plum-tree the s oatah which comm The gumme s-cepsabe pans ‘ faith. * . okee : i}: w Lichens in infants ar d young chil: ziteth awyay the ftone 3 andl ealeth Being drunke inwine itw aft c hi co oO each and chers fame effects that the o gum fthe Pe aren 5 ifit be la y a Ww ith vi neger. ons it worketh the wile Plums do ftay éand binde the belly, and foD dothe varipe plumimes ofwhatfort focuer, F akee wilde : : rthenarethey aftringent. — y Goieuethtke Jask and bloudy flix,the inordinat courfe ofwomens iuicerab of siae S| ithee ini tia, : m i m an or woman,and ftead o of Acatia in : ftead may ve ry well be'vfed ed in 1 ff ichis thornie tree growing gyptvery ofa deereprice, and rhetfore Maes sonaceae aes very hard tobe gotren,andeee 5 citer camcansbee our Plumsof this countrey are equal! vnto it Beceesior C nar. 127. into trees ofoth et kindes, and being fo ingraffed, they faciem parents, fuccum adoptionis, ut Plinius dicit, exhibent, Thegreateft vatietic ofthefe rare Plums are tobe _ Sebe/tena,Myxa,five MyxArd and thofe rare and delicate. paren Eee ‘Twicknam, before remembred in the Chap. foundin the grounds ofM*.vincent Poimter of of Apples : althoughmyfelfe amnotwithout fome, The wilde Plums srow in moft hedges through England, G The Time. The common and garden Plum trees dobloome : in April : the leaues comeforth prefently with them the fruit is ripe in Sommer, fome fooner,fome later, a The Names, The Plummettee is called in Greeke, Keropante : in Latine, Prenus : in high-Dutch,jaflaumenss baum: in low-Dutch, qeupymens in Spanith, Ciruelo : in French, Prupier - in Englith, Plum Thefruit is called in Greeke, Keswpte: (ied in Latine, Prusum : in high-Dutch, Dutch, 2upmen 3in apflaumen’ in ae Italianand French, Pruze : 1n Spanith,Pruzas + in Englifh,Prune,and Plume Thefe haueal fo names from the regions and Theold Writers haue called tho{e that countries where they grow, growin Syria neerevnto Damafeus, Damafcena in Englith, Damfons,or Damaske Prunes sand thofe that growin Spain, H:/panica,Spanith Prana: or Piums, So in our agewevie tocall Prunes thofe that grow in Hunhgatie, dungarzca, or Pannonica,Plums of Hungarie :fome, Gallica Prwa, or French Prunes, ofthe country of France. Clearcus Peripateticus faith, that they of Rhodes and Sicilia docall the Damaske Prunes Brabule, | The Temperature and Vertyes. Plummes that be tipe and new gathered “then fromthe tree, what fort focuer they are.of,do — e and coole, and yeeld vnto the body verylittle nourifhment, and the fame nothing goodat as Plummes do very quickly rot, fo iSalfo the iuiceof them apt to putrifie in the body, all: es and oa wife to caufe the meate to putrifie which is takenwith them : onely they are good for thole bry would keepetheir bodies folubleand coole » for by their moufture andflipperineffe they domo! lifie the belly. Dried Plums, commonly called Prunes, are wholfomer, and more : heon pleafant tothe RomackO) yeeld more nonrifhment,and better, andfuch as cannot eafily putrifie, Iris reported, faith hisbooke ofthe faculties of Nourifhments, thar ee the beft doe gtow.in Damafeusa cityof eye ext to thofe, they that growin Spaine : but thefe doe nothing at all binde, yet diuers 0 they ke Damfon Prunes very much ; for Damaske Damfon Prunesare more aftringent,but ae of Spainebe fweeter Diofcorides faith, that Damaske firmth,inhis books of the faculties of G mple Prunes dried do ftaythe belly; but Gate"? medicines, that they domanifeftly loofe th 7 OfSebeften,or the eAfprian Plum, q The Defiription. fe Ebeftines are alfo a kinde ofPlums:thetree whereofis not vnliketo the Plym ‘tree, fa~ uingit growethlower than the molt of the manured Plum trees; the leaves be harder and rounder;the floures grow.at thetaps of the branches confiftingof fiue {mall white leaues, with pale yellowiththreds in the middle, like tho ie of the Plum tree:after follaweth the fruit like to little Plummes, faftened in litcle skinny cups, which whenthey beripe are of a greenith black colour,wherein is contained a {mall hard ftone, Thefruit is fweet intafte, the pulpe or meat is . tough a’ nd clammie. very The Plat, | The Sebeften trees grow plentifully in ave and Egypt,they were in times paft forreine an ftrangein Italy, now they grow almoft ine Nery garden,beingfirft brought thither in A/aie his time. Now do the Sebeften trees, faithhe, inhis 15.booke,18.chapter, begin to grow in Rome; g¢ Seruicetrees. eeeneiee The Tine. The time anfwereth thecommon Plums, q The Names. pl Pliny calleth the tree Mya, it may bee fu pe- Ged that this is the tree which Matron fee dus in his Atticke banket in Athenams doth cal dxqwée but we cannot certainely affirme ity and efpecially becaufe divers haute a deemedthereof. The bersyor fruit is ped |
