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Show 1502 a. Theatrum Botanicum. Tripe 16, The Vertues. Pearesof any gcod or reafonable rellith are more {pent for méate then medicine, and mot of them eaten raw at feverall times as they be fittelt to {pend,orelfe ftewed or baked, as the kinde doth beft fate, and every onelift to nfe Trespe 16. The Theater of Plants. Mam. The Apple tree. Malusylvefia, Cuar,.73., The Witding or Crabbetree, them: the forts alfo that areficteft for the purpofe are dryed in ovensto keepe all the yeare, or dryed up afterthey are preferved and {o pat amongother dry candid Iunckets. The Warden is chiefly, yea onely admitted to being an excel Jentrepafte: fome are preferved in Sugar,as otherfruitesare,and ferved in banquets among other {weet meates, be taken by the ficke, and aguifh in that it hath noa@triction therein to breede obftru@tions, whichare the utter enemiesto putrid feavers, The wilde Peares by reafon of their harfhneffe, are not eaten as the milder fortsare, except fome good kinde tewed or baked,to ferve the poore peoples dyet, the other {carfe fit for the hogs toeare, andtherefore are for the moit part whereftore of them grow, beaten and preffed into a liquour which is called Perry, ofe{peciall good ufe at Sea in long voyages,to mingle with their freth water, to take icthe morehealthful, or lefle offenfive tothofe that mutt continually drinke water: and will after fome time becomefo milde almolt as Wine, and ftand wholefome tobe drunke: The Phyficall ufes of them both arethefe : They are to be difcerr.ed belt by their taftes,fur according to Galens rule,the harfh or fowre doe coole aud binde, the {weete doe now ith and warme, and thofe that are neither much {weete or fowre, but betweene bozh, have an{wezable qualities to their degrees: all the {weete or lufhious forte doe helpe to moove thebelly downewards more or lefte, but that {ort much'more,which hath the name of the Laxative Peare: thofe thar are harth or fowre, doe onthe contrary partbinde the belly as much,and the leaves doe fo alfo: thofe that are moift doe informe fort cole, but the harfh ot wilde forts much more, and ferve well to ule inall caufes, where thete is ncede ofrepelling medicines, and ifthe wild forts be boyled with Mufhromes, them theleffe dangerous, anditis faid alio thar the athes ofthe Peare tree wood being takenindrinke,it maketh orthe lye of them being drunk, doth helpe them thac are like tobe choked with eating Mufhromes:The faid tle hony, doth help the ftomac® very mach,that hath any paines or oppreffiontherein, Peares boyled witha lit« all forts of them fomemore or leffe: but the harfher forts doe moft coole and binde outwardly applyed : and ferve well tobe bound to greene Wounds,to coole and {tay the blood,and to helpe to heale up the wound without ble: Which courfe Gals him(elfe as he faith was driven to ule uponanexegent inflammation or further trounot having any other thing ac hand for the purpofe: Wild Peares therefore inthe like cafe doe more clofe up the lippes of greene wounds then toeother. Perry isa drinke that whofoever ufeth at home being not accuftomed will wring themalitcle by the belly, and will a little furce it downeward, but being more ufed it workethroit, notfo at all,but rather cooleth an hororfainting ftomacke,helping the digeftion being temperately taken: butat Sea by the working thereof it is made more comfortable,taking away the ctudity and rawnefle of the water. Cuar. LXXIII, Malu. The Apple trees SEAS) He Apple likewife is divided into tame or manured,and wilde, thé one {érving for Orchards, tobe y tended and regarded,he other tobeleft to the Woods and H edge rowesof fieldes, &c,asI did therefore with Peares in the former Chapter fo I meane to deale with Apples in this, give you a general efcription both of tame and wilde, andthe other forts, that is, efpecially the Wildings or Crabbes, which were not mentionedin my former Booke. 1. Aalys vulgaris, The common Appletree. The Appletree in genérall {preadeth his armes and branches morethen the Peare tree, but rifeth not to that height,the leaves are fomewhat round,a little long pointed towards the ends of them, and dented about the edges greene both above and below : the flowers white and a little blufh coloured about the edges, confifting of five leaves,the fruite th it followeth in this as in the former,is of divers fizes,formes,colours,and taftes, and likewife ofvariable ere andlafting, for fome will be rotten before others be ripe,and fome mult be fpent, before others be gathered. The deuble b'offomed Apple differerh from the former in nothing, but in the howers, which are double, and that it beareth no fruite, 2. Malus (ylueftria, The Wilding or Crabbe tree. The Crabbe growethfomewhat like the Apple tree, butfull of thornes, and thicker of branches. the flowers are alike,but the fruite is generally {malland very fowcr,yet fome more therothers,which the Countrypeople to amend, doe nfually roft them at the fre,and make them their Winters junckets: whereof fome are redder or whiter,or greener, or yellower then others, being feldome much regarded, or diftinguifhed more thento make Cyder or Verdjuyce of all forts being indifferently put together, . 3. Chamemalus, The dwarfe or Paradife Apple. The Paradife Appleis alfoa kinde of wilde Apple,yerno Crab, foritisnot grafted like the manuredforts, but asthe Crab,rifech without graftingsto bea tree of low ftature, not much higher then a man may reach, having leaves and flowerslike the tormer:the fruit is of a reafonable fize,faire and yellowith,but light and {pongy, ofa bitter fweet talte, not pleafant, and will not lak Jong but quickely fhrinke and wither: the body and bran= ches are much fubje@ tothe Canker, whichwill qaickely cate it round and kill it, and befides will have many fcabby bunches that deforme it and caufe ic to petith, and this as it growethelder, for itis full of fuckers, from the roote,which will be as faire and finoth,as of any other tree. Of the manuredfortthere is one whofe flowersare wholly white & fmaller,the tree lower and thefruit fmaller. Poxtznana, There is another which hathno kernels within the core, Ofthe manured kinde, the Holland Pippin mutt be remembred, which ie a fat and yellowith greene Pippin, and of as good rellifh as moft of the other Pippins,and of a meanefize, Ot Wildings or Crabsgthere is the Towne Crab,the greater and leffer red Crab, the greater and leffer white Crab,and the {mall hedge Crabbe, rs - - F ci . THe wi dei 1948 The lace and Time, >-. « The better forts of Apples ate fome 5f theé other, as the he dwarfe d kindé, the Wildingsa | i Orchards,and ited in ' plantéd A Thet or Crabsgrowin Woods perkerlly. 98 are planted in the hedges'in many Countriesof this Land to nes vs der withall, the Apples in generalflower, and bud forth leaves'latérthen Pearés, and ripen earlier “orlater fo! Names, dail CAiaito tk Paningaal Pons chan Bas; ThecAtate inde. Bayahil toe the kinde i the oft part,accordingto d moft It is called in Greeke «»Aée,and the dil Sores at frnites ec al f dif fome would diftinguifh many other crees,for erall word iincluding i i the fraices.of i it is eters us ¢ ridichlous too is Grammarians thofe opinionof the faith Scaliger intoPoisiewand Nacem;but {nally called A¢adusy but yet that word liketwife is referred to divers other kindesof trees, - as Malis Cydoma five Cor ma Malus Medica vel Citvia, Malus Limonia, Malus Aurea fen Aurantia, Malus Perfica, Atalus cee Malus Arminiaca vel precocia,and many others,anid P/iny numbreth Zizyphe,and Tuberes among Psi ph lore~ citeth the names of anumberof forts frequent with them, as he doth every wheré with other {61 - Bape ie which co relate here were impertinent, cfpecially tous, — noe. but ae praisenebeatinoar Reale rane “Cormariw taketh the C ong ts,and to fave time to {pend ro becter purpofe! c kane Sofiane, tobe the cigarsOrenge.: ‘but Galen appointing the: Caftiana mala to be boy led, sto Biv ¢ one for the head ache, did not meantthe Orenge,which was neither knowrieto him) or in bistime;nor - : u the Frenc tobeboyled, The Arabians call it Tu/aand T#falia, the Italians Mele, the Spanier Manfanas, ' we Apple. Pomier and Pome, the Germanes Depffelland meeethe Dutch Appel and yomaiaag a7! Thel'ertnes, ditt fh Galen len (héieth therebyhow todiftinguifh a ing ofof fundry taltes, i and being erallarécoldand windy, E i ros forthave awauftere callwiaeaaye goodforfainting flomiackes and Tob fe bellyesy' orhers on eet cooleand quenchthirft, and fomefharpe,fit to-tut groffe flegme, fome {weete foone aeteryee 1 . Ys andas quickly paffed away, yet fooner corruptingin the ftomacke if they belRayed’: the be fea mea cy be sheiaah ripe,are’to be avoyded;thénto be rofted orfcaldedis'the ‘bett ee ny aria _ . ae bowele;’ efpec aid! pompleseines f 'meate, doe firengehen both’ flémacke Sip) or caft ‘ upon them, andtaken after feedes mi des mixed gnorhave loathe théir meate or hardly digeft it; and forthofe thar are given to ither in t Saure eibee that are not {weete, bucrather a little fowre or harfh; bfed mn thar anipnts ate ae Sweete Apples doe loofen the belly, and thereby drive forth the wormes rhat are therein 5 ower AP. ples {foppe the belly, and provoke,vrine ; Crabs for this parpofe arethefittelt ? Theiweere ve ae ee ‘ Pippin and Pearemaine helpe to-diffolve Melancholly humours,to broetene re one ieointte peer r a6 fore are fitteft for Confettio Alkerines, and Syrpus de poms + The leaves boyled and give enceyafd eneré the waite of the liver and ftomacké'caufeth the lippes to eet on Eebogek harfh and furred, is yery good to wath and gargle it withall and to drinke ddwne fomei; oe |