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fome fallad oi), and therewith anointing the parts, or the leaf bruifed and laid to any 
green wounds in the hands and legs, doth quickly heal them; and, being bound to 
the throat, much helpeth the quinfey ; it is likewife found fervicable in ruptures. 
The juice thereof, made into a fyrup with honey or fugar, may be fafely taken, a 
fpoonful or two at a time, and with good effect, for a quinfey ; and will be found 
more fpeedy in operation, as well as pleafant in tafte, than fome other medicines pre 
fcribed for that diforder. : 
Gf Ta: OLIVE-TREE. 
“Kinps and Names. OF thefe there are the tame and manured olive, and the 
wild olive-tree; the firft is called in Latin olea fativa, and the wild kind oleafter, five 
olea_fyiveftris. | 
Description. 1. It has afmalltubulous impalement of one leaf, cut into four 
fegments at the top; the former confifts of one petal, which is tubulous, cut at the 
brim into four fegments; it has two fhort ftamina, terminated by ereét fummits, 
_ and a roundifh germen, fupporting a fhort fingle ftyle, crowned by a thick bifid 
ftigma ; the germen. afterwards turns to an oval fmooth fruit, or berry, with one 
cell, inclofing an oblong oval nut. In Languedoc and Provence, where the olive- 
tree is greatly cultivated, they propagate it by truncheons {plit from the roots of the 
trees; for, as thefe trees are frequently hurt by hard frofts in winter, fo, when the 
tops are killed, they fend up feveral ftalks from the root; and, when thefe are 
grown pretty ftrong, they feparate them with an axe from the root; in the doing of 
which they are careful to preferve a few roots to the truncheons; thefe are cut off in 
the {pring after the danger of the froft is over, and planted about two feet deep in 
_ the ground. Thefe trees will grow in almoft any foil; but, when planted in rich 
-moift ground, they grow larger, and make a finer appearance, than in poor land} 
the fruit i is of lefs efteem, becaufe the oil made from it is not fo good as that 
’ produced in a leaner foil; chalky ground i is efteemed beft for them; and 
“the oil, mad ¢ from the trees growing in that fort of land, is much finer, ‘and’ will 
ni ser. than the other. In England, the plants are only preferved by pee a 
curiofity, and are ‘placed i in winter in-the green-houfe for variety. 
2. Oleafter, the wild olive-tree, groweth fomewhat like unto the sisted but 
it hath harder and fmaller leaves, and thicker fet on the branches, with fundry fharp 
thorns among the leaves; the bloffoms and fruit come forth in the fame manner 4s 
the other do, and in as great plenty, but much finaller, and fcarce coming at any 
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