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time to ripenefs where they naturally grow ; but, where they do become ripe, they 
are fmall, with crooked points, and black. Of the olives hereof oil is fometimes 
_ made, which is colder and more aftringent than the other, and harfher in tafte and 
greenifh in colour ; but the olives are much refpeéted, and gathered to be eaten. 
Piace AND Tsme.. Both kinds of olives grow in the hot countries only ; in any 
cold climate, they will never bear fruit, nor hardly endure a winter ; the manured is 
planted where it groweth, and, according to the nature of the foil or climate, pro- 
duceth larger or fmaller olives, and in more or lefs plenty ; and oil fweeter or more 
{trong in tafte. The fineft and fweeteft oil comes from the ifles in the Mediterranean 
fea, as Zante, Cerigo, &c. that from Majorca, &c, is more full and fat; the oil 
from Provence, in France, is ftronger and hotter tafted. The wild olives grow na- 
turally in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and many other countries. They flower in June 
and July, but their fruit is not ripe until November or December. 
GoveRNMENT AND Vitues. The olive-tree is a plant of Venus, and of gentle ; 
temperature. The green leaves and branches of the olive-tree, but much more of 
the wild olive, do cool and bind ; and the juice thereof, mixed with vinegar, is 
peculiarly ferviceable in all hot impofthumes, inflammations, fwellings, Sc. An- 
thony’s fire, fretting or creeping ulcers, and cankers in the fiefh or mouth. The 
fame al{o ftayeth the bleeding of wounds, being applied to the place; the faid j juice 
being dropped into the eyes ftayeth the diftillation of hot rheums into them, and 
cleareth the fight from films or clouds that offend the light, or any ulcer that doth 
breed therein, or ulcers in the ears. 
Pickled olives do ftir up an appetite to meat, and, although they be hard of di- 
geftion, yet are pleafing to the ftomach, being apt to putrefy therein; they are not 
good for the eye-fight, and caufe the head-ach; if they be dried, and applied to 
fretting and corroding ulcers, they ftop their progrefs, and heal them; and take © 
_ away the {cars of carbuncles, or plague-fores. The pickled olives burned, beaten, 
and applied unto wheals, ftop their further increafe, and hinder them from rifing ; 
+ they cleanfe foul ulcers, help gums that are fpungy, and faften loofe teeth, 
- Thewater, that istaken from the green wood when heated in the fire, healeth the 
Stings orfcab in the head, or other parts ; the olive-ftones, being burned, are ufed 
for the fame purpofes, and alio toheal foul fpreading ulcers ; and, being mixed. s wit is : 
» fat and meal, they take away the ruggednefs of the nails. 
The other properties of the olive are contained in the oil, and the foot or staat : 
of the tree. Firft, the oil has divers and variable virtues, according to the ripenels 
se unripenefs of the : fruit whereof i itis made, and then of the time and: bts: hereof, 
