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Show Cwar.23, “1420 Theatram Botanicum. T R13 £16, peate, and reddifh on theoutfide, of an harfhtalte The Service tree, Laem Ecanfe the rue Service tree is fo like unto the tame and the wild Ath inthe leaves, and thatthe wild 2) FDS) Ath is called a Service by divers, 1 thinkeit meete to joyneit next unto them,and with it fomeother Y B ») forts that have obtained the name of Services,although differing much in forme fromit, ‘The true Service tree. The trué Service tree groweth in timeto beagreatand atalltree, {preading fundry great bran: ches, covered witha rough grayifh barke,whereon growlarge winged leaves, greater and longerthen thofe of Afhtind each of thembroader, more blewifh greene, and harder, and mort grayifh greene Underneath, and more dented alfo about the edges: the flowers growin clufters,at feverall places on the branches with the leaves confifting of foure white leaves a peece,after whichfollowthe fruite as big as Wallnuts fhaledoutofthe greene buskes, tending to yellow whentheyare ripe with broad brownekernels within them,in fome round,which are accountedthe beft, in fomeovall that is long and round,and in fome almoft Peare tafhion, which like other Ser. vices are hard and harfh when they areripe, and moft be hung up on ftrings in a warme roome, or laid covered withftraw.chaffe,or fome cloathes to make them mellow fit to be eaten, which ghen will be more pleafant thay mellow Medlars, the wood is very firme and clofe,and yellower then the Ath, 2, Srobus Torminalis five valgaris, Our commonServicetree. Our common Service tree rifeth up to a reatonable height and bigneffe,{preading largely with a whitifh celored fmoothbarke,the leaves grow fingly by themfelves.which are not winged but broad.and cut into tundry devifions and broad at the bottome next tothe {talke,of a fad greenecolour, the flowers grow in clufters of a whi« tith colour at the end of the branches for the moft part, whichare fueceeded with {maller round berries then the former,and browner alfo,containing Within them {mall blackith hard kernels: thefe muft likewife be mellowed to be caten, or elfe let hung on the branches untill the frofts mellow them on the trees, unleffe the birds devoure them being negle&ted: the wood hereof is ofa brownith yellow colour and hard. _ 3. Sorbma fylvcftris Anglicus, Red Chefle apples,or the Engli/h wildService. u Thistree which we ent:tle a Service, from the harfhnefle of the greené fruite,growethnot high ufvally,bur cas 3. Sorbus legitima. The uve 2, Sorbus Terminalis valgaris, j 4 SorbusjylueffiisA tia. Theophraft: ditia. The wild Setvice tree called Aria. tree) not cut in nor dented at all about the edges, the flowersare of an over worne moffie colour, after which followeth fruite, of the bigneffc of an hedge Cuap. XXIII. * Cuap,23, Lithye tree, ( which Gerard calleth the Wayfaring Florepyri glandemque Jisesfregere {ub Ulmis} 1, Sorbus legitima, The Theater of Plants, ther as a hedge bufh, whofe ftemme and branches arecovered with an hoary or grayith barke, the leaves are broad, fomewhat like unto Viburnum the Inferitur vero exfats nucn Arbutus borvida Etfreriles Platani Matos geffere valentes = Caftanee Fagos: Ornys sncanuit albo Sorbus, Trt BE16, Our commonService tree, like the unripe or hard Services, yet the Country people doe often eate of them, being ripe from the tree, inftead of better fruite, but after they have beene gathered and laid by awhileto mellow, become more pleafanc. 4. Sorbus [ylueftris Aria Theophrafti dita, The wild Service called Aria. This wild Service tree growethto be a very great tall and farre {preading tree, with many boughes and branches,whereonare fet large crumpled hard leaves ofadeepe greene colour onthe upper fide, and gray orhairyunderneath, with divers veines running almoft upright therein,and dented about the edges, the flowers are ofa white moffie colour, thicke cluftring together, made offoure leavesa peece, whichtuine into brownifh red berries, with a {mall tuft at the top, containing wichin them {mail blackithfeedes, and are of aharfh tafte liketo thereft, yec very pleafanc, more then any of the reft,after they are mellowed: the wood is very hard, and firme or clofe, and whitifh Withall, The Place and Time, Thefirft is feene with us but ina few places, and thofe onely p'anted for their rarity. The fecondis found in menyplaces of England, The third in We/?merland, onahill that re{pecteth the Sea cight miles from Lancafter called Rootherflacke, but more plentitifully in Werherflacke Parke, aslamenformed: Thelalt groweth likewife in fome places here and there, throughout &z¢/and, asinthe parts not farre from Creydon,and onc tree alfo growethon Hampeftead Heath alone byit felfe,without anyother nereit on the left hand ofthe high way,as you goe on forward to Hendon,they doall flower before the endofZay,andthe fruite is ripe in O Zober, ; The Names, Itis called in Grecke #1 and ou}, Oa and Ova, in Latine Sorbus s the firlt is the Sorbus legitima of Clafius, Sora bus efculenta of Camerarius,Sorbus domeftica ot Matthiolus and Lobel, who alfo thought it mig phrafti but erronionfly,as bythe difcription thereof given before may be{cene, all other autt ply: the fecond is the fourth Sorbus ot Ping which hee calleth Torminalss,as Cordus,T ragus,and a though Lugdanenfis mifliketh of it faying thatthe leaves are nothing ike the Pi Hy pared them, he therefore callech that Soréxs torminalis , which is called Or fhe 7 Adatthiolas does unto Péisy coms lveftris, as 1 have which tt isfo nots withftanding , nothing hindsing buc that it mayas well be Crategus TFheopbraffi ,as Sorbi quartum genus Pliny mTorminalis, both the difcriptions agrecing fi unto, C/afim and Lobel, and divers others, and Ge/ner tis al(o call it Sobys torminalis, who yet thinketh it might bea Sfecies of Ade(pilus Aronia, and peradvencure Theophrafty hich Gazacalleth Gallica, Bawbhipus placeth it asone ofthe Medlars, a Nes TUR a .a3 he doth alfo our Bawthoric, whichinhiseighth number he referreth toche Oxyacantha Pyraftrefimilis of Diofcorides, and yecin his ninth number maketh that Oxyacantha Diofcoridis,to be Pyracantha of Lobel and Clufs, which hath no{uch dividedleafe as the Hawthcrne hath, and yet both of them beare berries like Services and not Apples like Medlars, fomealfo rookeittobe che Hippomelis of Palladins,. The third hath not beeric di- vulgedin writing by any before me, and therefore that Latine name may ftanduntilla fitter may be found, the Natives there call them red Cheffe apples, and Sea Oulers. The laftis taken by all our Moderne Herbarifts tobe dria of Theopbraftus although Bellonius {aith as {hewed before,that that kindof J/exor Oke that is called 4< andy, doth hold the name of Ariain Mount e4thos, asis (hewed before, Lobe/calleth it Aria Theom Alei, Clufivs Sorbus Aria cogn ata, Gefner inhortis eAria Alpinavel pilofa, Belonivs callethit Lugdunenfis Aria alfo, and Theophrafti,as ( amerariu doth, who gie dus ga h Cormes a efruite, the t Lamataar be Dutch The Service is called by the Italians Sorbe, by the Spaniards Servas, by the dthe tree Cormier.and Sorbier, by the Germanes Sp rwerbaumche tree, and Sperbies Sorben,and Sorbenboom,and we in Enghfh the Service free or fruite: the laltis called by Italians Matallo, and bythe French Alifier,and Cirier by fome. The Vertues, Services unmellowed are very harfh, able to draw ones mouth awry almoft tobe eaten, orélfe to choke one, but made mellow they are morepleasant, and fit to be taken of moft to ftay flixes, {cowrings, andcaltings, yet lefle then Medlars, although many doe eate them that ncede not,for amy fuch purpofe: ifthey be dryed before theybe mellow and kept allthe yeare, they maybe ufed in decoétions for the faid purpofe, either to drinke or to |
