within is much. longer thanthe Wood Nut, yetround withall, witha brownith 
thin fhell on the out-fide, and a white peeling covering the Kernel within, which is 
white and hard, and of a very fweet and pleafant tafte, : a 
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The three firft are ufually planted in Gardens and Orchards, but are not 3 
alike common, for the red fort is not altogether fo. frequent as the other; the fam 8 
fhould come out of Greece by its name, but it is now vifible in fome of our Ens is 
Gardens, as at the lower end-of Mrs. Pollards Garden, by the houfe where Me 
Ditchfield lives, in Sc, Albans. The fifthand fixth are conceived to come ofthe — 
fame kinde, onely the f/2h groweth in Orchards, and fois bigger than that which 
groweth wild inthe Woods, The name of the /4/t f peaks its native Countrey, The 
frajeisripeia Auguft, o: September at the farthett. spa) se 
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ef Nats newly gathered ate hor and moiff in the fir degree, but after they 
n kept a while, theyare het and dry, : Mee 
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_The Skins that cover the Nut Kernels, being taken in Wine, tothe quantityof 
‘a Dramme, are very effeCtuall alfo to ftay Wongns Conrfes, efpecially thofe ofthe 
ved Filbeard, which have the Signature of them, The dryed Husks and Shellsto 
the weight of two drammes taken in Red Wine, doth the fame, and ftayeth the 
_ Lak likewife, and fo doth the Milk that is drawn from the Kernells, and likewife 
_ the Catkins: The parched Kernels madeinto an Ele@uary, isvery goodtohelp 
an old Cough ; and being parched, anda liccle Pepper putto them and drank, it 
~arthe Branches being made in {mall Ale, and taken firft and laft for nine o 
enidayes together, is a {peciall remedy for the Strangury. Nuts eaten alone insea 
great 4 quantity, are by. no means commended, for they are faid to.be bards at; 
tion, to fill the flomach with wind, to can/e vomiting and the Head-ach, efpecials 
_ ty when they be old, forthen they are worfe than they are being newly gathered: 
yet if any one be fo much taken with them that he cannot refrain them, let him eat 
Raifons together with them, that fo the ma iiture ofthe one may the drys. 
neffe of the other ; and this hath been an ancient cufto : 
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