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Show 1500 Cuar.72, Tbeatrum Botanicum, Trise 6 blood red colour both within and without, Sci fomewhat fweete e like unto them, butnot( pleafant, m, butnotfo This treé groweth in divers places of the Eaft Indies, asat Goa,Malacca.ec, and abideth alwWayes greene, giving ripe fruite atche time wich orhersin that Country, } Ath 2 The Names, < is tree ismentioned firft by 2. Curtins, lid. 9» who wrote the ats of Alexan, in hi ; : Indies, and by Theophraftus alfo lib.g.¢. 5. who lived neere that titne, callech fee 7 fibet2c.5, afterhim dotk: Straboalio: although hee gaveitno name and then, or of the admirabletr a: ‘eth ; > by you may perceive that it is no newfound tree in thefe later dayes, but knowneand written of by he Ach ents, Goropius would draw thistree into Paradife, and make it the tree of the knowledge of sood ide iu wd God hadplanted inthe midft thereof, and forbad Adam the eating,and of which by paee eafas on ona himfelfe and his pofterity, fo boldis he totakeuponhimtoknow that which he hath picauke authority or proofeie for, but onely led by fanfie and {trong conceit, about the river Acefine,in thofe parts where noa thi S groweth, and therefore Paradice mult needs be there alfo, The Portugals call it Arbor de ray, that isthe tree of ‘roore’, and thereupon Lin/chate in his Booke figureth a tree with a namber of rootes thereto, rather a of fancy thenfight which Clafius mifliked, Somedoe callit Arbor Goe, butof moft Ficus Indica, and I ha out ve added arcnatator adiffes fence from others. The Vertues, The fruite is good and wholefome tobe eaten, but I cannot learne ifeveri lye a ulcerin the body,orufed in Phyficke, for any difeate, i everit was applyéd to curéany woundor TriBei6, The Theater ofPlants. Cnar.72, 1 501 both abroad and at home fuch variety, that aman might fpend his whole time thoroughly to obferveandfer downe all the forts that are knownein other places, I will therefore endeavourbut to thew you here a generall defcription of the tree, both tame and wilde wich fomeforts that are not exprefled in my former Booke, 1. Pyres fativa, The matured Peare tree. ; The manured Peare in generall groweth higher, but flower then the Apple tree, moré upright alfo and not {preadingthe branches, and no leflethicke,but rather greaterin the bulke or body:the leaves are (omewhat broader and rounder, greene above and whiter underneath chen thofe of the Appletree: the flowers are {mallet bur whiter then the Apple bloffomes,and the fruite more fong then round for the moft part, fmalleralfo at the ftalke, and greater at the head,of many differing fa thions,fizes,colours,and taftes, and timesboth in gathering and (pending, fome being greene, fome rnffec, other yellowifhor reddifh, fome great,others fmall, or long, or ronnd,or {mooth,or bunched out, and (0 for taftes alfo,fweetithorltifhious, or delicate or waterifh or hard and firme,and well rellifhed, or not fo good to be eatenraw,as baked orroafted, and fome to be fpent as foone as they are ga~ thered, or foone after, being Summer fruite, others not tobe {pent untill the Winter Le either come in,or neere or fully paft; each particular to every fruite we €too tedious: for this Worke being growne already foyoluminous,and feeing ! have fhewed themin parc elfewhere: The wood is fmooth clofe and firme, and ferveth for many ufes, both for formes to cut chefe figures or the like in,and inftead of wainfcor in many poore mens honfes, and for many other purpofes. 2, Pyrus (ylveftris, The Wilde or Choake Pearetree, The wilde Peare tree uftally growethtall and upright, like the manured kinde, and as little {preading, but fometimes low and crooked, but fuller of branches, which maketh them the more knotty,the barke is blacker and morerugged,cleaving alfo in manyplaces,and eafily to be pulled off;with prickes and thornes fet here and there onthem, but not fo thicke as inthe Crab, the leaves and flowers doe little vary, bug that fome will have larger and others leffer leaves and flowers, whichwill allo bea lictle deeper coloured then others, as the fruite being greater or {maller, and of a more or leffe harfhtalte, althoughall have fome, andthe colour likewile in fome is Cwar, LX XI Pyrus, The Pearetreé, Ecanfe Peares aré fo like unto Figges in the outward formeof the greene or darkeraffet,and {ome will be fofaire, yellow and red, that theywonld invite any that feeth themand Knoweth them not totake and talte ofthem, which thenare fo different from their expectations, being harth and inké j next thereunto, whereof thereis Both manured and wilde: the daknesdef ceesee ~~ into fo manyfeverall fafhions,colours, and taftes, that it would teke up many leaves to det 3 resibe them at large asthey mightbe, for not onely every Country abroad, and beyondthe Seas =r . ¢ feverall forts, which wenever faw or heard of,butin our owne Land alfo, there are fo wany A ‘ ‘ at itis almoft impoffible that they fhouldall come to one manscertaine and perticular knowedge(yet have I fhewed you amany of themin my Orchard heretofore.) Ofthe wild forts likewife there ate 1, Pytus faiiya, The manured Peare tree, 2. Pyrus flvefisi, The wilde or Choke Peare tree, unfavoury, that they prefently out with theirpurfes and beltow this adage thereon, Moneff femperfides habenda fronti: yerthis harfh unfavoury fiuite, thoughlater ripe then moft of the mamured fortes, by being in part mellowed with the Autumnes coldes,and the ftanding of their juyce being prefled forth and made into Perry, doth in time fo alterhis former quality of harfhneff¢ and unfavourineffe, that ir becommieth fully as cleete, and almoft as pleafant as white wine: the wood hereof is harder,firmer,and cloftr then the former, and fo more knotty al- fo, whereby it becommethmore frangible and fooner broken. ; Of the manured Pearesthere is a fort that althoughit be a good Winter fruite,{weete andwell rellifhed, Cie aye cially ifthey be tewed or baked, yet the tree hath thornes upon it,like unto the wild forc, this was broughr as it (pinot is {aid from Naples into Lyons,whereitis plenty, andcalled Poirier d efpine, and the ftuite Poiree/pine, that is, /ativa, Pyrus fativafpinofa, the prickely Peare, ; ; ey The winged Peare hatha leafe alwayes,or two fometimes, growing tothe fides of it, as if it came out of the Peare,and maytherefore be called Pyrophilla, whereof Camerarius, {peaketh in horto, ; Py rus The Pome-peate,or Apple-peare, which is a fmall Peare,but roundat both ends likean Apple, yet the trée isa foliara, Peare tree, The Blood Pearé, whofe infideis red, as the outfide is. Camerarivs in horto maketh mention hereof likewile, The Laxative Peare which loofeneththebelly being eaten, Camerarius there alfo hath this, Pomipys bd Covad The double bloflomed Peare. This bore double fowers with Malter Ward,of the Kings Granary, but whether Pyrus it be alive or dead, I am not affured ; nor whetherit kept the forme, or didalrer. Laxativa Pyris fylveftris, The wilde Pearetree. Pyras flow 1. Ofthe wilde kinde there are the greaered Choke Peare, whofe colour and property, 1 have fhewed you in ” duplicte the defcription. 2. Theimaller Choke Peare; 3. The Hedge Peare, 4. The lowfie Hedge Peart. 5. The Crowwild Peare. ae 647+, Wild Peares of Candy,the one they call Ach/ades the other Agufaga, as Bellonivs faith} The Place and Time, The manured forts are onelyplanted and preferved in Orchards for the purpofe, the wilde forts being fome found in our owne Woods, ard planted in the Hedge-rowesof fieldes, to fave the ground of their growing, and yet have as muchule of themas by being abroad, the wild flowring and ripening their fruice later then thé ma= Re SS SON $ASN WSNn'Z RINNNLS nured, ‘The Names, ~ The manured Peare is called in Grecke 2>@-,and in Latine Pirus,and Pyrw a fructus figura quod ad Pyramida1is feonlitedinem, elato in mucronem turbinetur : The wild Peare iscalfed ¢xe9s in Greeke, by Theophraftus, a pri. vativo uf“, quodnon fil fr cjus adlumanum corpus, yet ‘DiofBorides faith, @edsis a kind of wilde Peare of it felte,and °~?1, in Latine Pirus /ylueffris, and Pyrafter,or Pirafter : all peaceable ages have beene miich delighted with the variety of all forts ofedible fruites, and therefore Cato, Columel/a, and others, but efpecially Piiay hath fet downe the names of anumber,as they were well knownein his time which how our age cén parallell onrsuntothem, I cannortell;yet Lugdunenfishath in fome fort endeavoured itto his French namies, but how truely. know not, noris it greatly maceriall for ustodoe, becsufe names are often given from the ‘place where they beft grow, or from the perfon that firft brought them into their Country, of was muchdelighted with them, or from fome other caufe or accident,. which namesare notfo fit for one Countryas another + Wee have fo many in owneLind, that I nevér knew any one that could be poffeffed of all forts, although chey ftrove tadoe itasmuchasin chem lay, for ftillthey wereinformed of fome they had not: And Ihave declared a many of themin myformerBooke. Thee4rabians call it Humetthe, Cirmetre, and Kemetri, the Italians Perethe Spaniards Pyras the French Poires,the Germanes Bir Biren,and Piren,the Dutch Berre,and we Peates a ee : Mmmmmm 3 The |