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yellowifh greene vnderneath ; at the tops of the young branches comie forth the flo 
ers, which in the onc fort before they are open,are of an excellent bright crimfon co- 
_ lour, .and being blowen, confift of fourelong and narrow leaues, round pointed; 
fomewhat twining themf{elues, of a paler réd- colour, .almeftrending tobluh, and in . 
the other are white, thegreene leauesalfo being of ‘a littlefrefher colour v/after the 
flowersare paft, inthe hot countries but neuer in ours,there come vp long bending or 
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crooked flat pads, whofe outward fhellis:hard; almoft woody, and of abrowne co- 
lout, .whereinis contained {mall flat brownith{eede, wrapped in.aygreatdeale of a 
brownifh yellow doune, as fine almoft as filke, ,fomewhat likevato the huskes of 4/- 
clepias, ox Periploca, but larger, flatterand harder sas my felfecan teftific, who had 
 fomeof the pods of this Rofe:bay, brought mecout of Spaine, by Mafter Do@or 
“This beautifull Bay in his naturall place of growing, sroweth to beea tree of area- 
fonable bigneffe and 1h and oftentimes with vs ale if it bee pruined fromthe 
lower branches ; bur more vfually in thefe colder Countries, it groweth asa fhrub or 
_ hedgebuth, thooting forth many branches, whereofthe greater and lower are conered 
_ witha darke grayifhgreene barke, but the young ones are very greene, whereon are 
fet many Bood Fairea ates Stekeand inns leases; alileccnred shavashe edges, 
of amore excellent frefhfhining greene colour, and farre larger then any Bay leafe, 
and compared by many tothe leaues of the Posseritrom tree (which becaufe wee haue 
mone in our Countrey,cannot be fo well known)both for colour and largeneffe,which 
-yeelda moft gracefull afpect :_ it beareth long ftalkes of whitifh flowers, atthcioynts  - 
of theleaues bothalongthe branches and towards the ends of them alfo, likevnto 
the Birds Cherry or Padus Theophrasi, which the French mencall  Pwtier c Cerifier 
blanc, but larger and greater, confifting of fiue leads with many threds in the middle: 
after which commeth the fruite or berries, as large or great as Flanders Cherries, ma- 
ny growing together one by another ona long ftalke, as the flowers did, which are 
very blackeatid(hining onthe outfide, witha little point at theend, and teafonable 
fwecete in tafte,wherein is contained a hard round ftone,very like vnto a Cherry ftone, 
as. [ haue obferued as well by thofe I receiued out of Italic, as by them I had of Mafter 
Tames Cole a Merchant of London lately deceafed, which grew at his houfein High+ 
gate, where there isa fairetree which hee defended from the bitternefle of the we 
ther in winter by cafting a blanket ouerthe toppe thereof euery yeare; thereby the 
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