oe 
: commendable hand of Oe yet if they be caten imnmndderately they caufe 
- the Paradile of Plants, 43 ; 
Horfe “Chefnut, >The Dwarte Cheinut. 4. “4. The Chefnutot Peru. 5 Parg urging 
Chefnurs of America, . ; 
} The Forme, . 
The ordinary Che[nut Tree proweth very tall and high, bearing great, | 
cough and wrinkled Leaves,dented about the edges, put j sing ee len, 
the year divers long Catkins or bloomings, femcmker the Oak, but of 
a more greenifh baa colour; the bi Pa between the leaves and the 
branches cowards the end of them, enclofed in three feverall Huskes, the outer- 
moft whereof iswhitifh and prickly like an Urchin, = it felfe 
when it is ripe, and fheweth the Nut, being flacon the ae toe 
but flat on the other, whofe fhell or huske is fmiooth, netie Se: and fhinir 
little onthe outkide, but hairy within, tough alfo and not eafie to brea i, 
under which dyech che kernell covered with a thin reddifh bitter -skin or 
peeling, which is of 2 firme fubftance and white, {weet and pleafant in 
tafte, formed fomepbet lige aHeart, the wood hereof is Jie and of a 
brownifh colour, 
“The Places aud Time. . 
The Firft swe upon Mountains and in Woods A i yea there be 
divers Woods in England, which have few Trees in them but Ch hefnut Trees, 
ene whereof is within amile and ahalf of Fe er{bam in Kent, yet thefe that 
grow in the warmer Countreys produce gr rs; the Sec 
oe ec ore Bae F Bi set : ol ur 
‘) acs ¢ 
ties, ad indeed itisa R 
| very dry abi 2 aie Same wee 
ay, apsenougn to. cilcove aon res that his Nut bears,” 
and fo tikewile of vers others that tend to fo that a fmalt — 
hint will be fafficient. Ic is not ordinarily delivered, a ais Nut thould fie: 
up Venery 5 oncly Langham in his Garden of Health mentioneth A : 
purpofe, which is more then probable, if the much nouri eae a 
and the Seas oe aa ng with m (both which qualitie ‘are very. 
: be derec meale of thefe Nutsmadeinto an 
‘uary yis faid toi ery ‘profitable for thofe that are troubled. 
with a goer SRE laske, or any Flux of bleodin Man or Woman, but _ 
Pos the immer skin chaccovere ihe Remus if the decoftion thereof in — 
e or Water, or the c thereof ‘be taken in fome convenient Liquor. — 
The way to: the windineff 
wil ffe of them in fer it will not | 
be confimed) is oe n through “= 
kin, and then roaft them under the sites set hapalien, and fo ene. 
rder of the faid 
, oor} bathe Gly. 
