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Se arollante to this Orchard. 
prickly onthe edges, efpecially in the young trees, and fometimes on thofe bratiches 
thatare young and newly {prung forth from the elder rootes, butelfe ina manner all 
{mooth in the elder growne, abiding greenc all the winter as wellasfummer, and are 
of agrayith greene on the vnderfide.It beareth in the {pring time certaine flender long. 
branches (like as other Okes doe) with {mall yellowith moffie flowers on them, which 
fallaway,and are vnprofitable, the acornes not growing from thofe places, but from 
others which are like ynto thofe of our ordinary Oake, but fmaller and blacker,and fet 
in amore rugged huske or cuppe. This and no other kinde of I/ex doe know to grow ~ 
in all our land in any Garden or Orchard: for that kind with long and narrower leaues, 
and not prickly, growing fo plentifully as Matthiolus faith in Tufcane,] haue not feen: 
and itis very probable to bee the fame that Plinie remembreth to haue the leafe of an 
Oline ; but notas fome would haueir, that Sei/sx Theophraftus maketh mention of 
-inhisthird Booke and fixteenth Cpst of his Hiftorieof Plants, which the Arca- 
2 Hex,but not prickly : for Theophraftus faith, 
the timberof Smslax is{mooth and {foft, and this of the //ex is harder, and ftronger 
thenanOake. . : Hy 
dians fv called, and had the leafe of thi 
The Vicof the //ex or euer-greene Oake. 
Seeing this is te be accounted among the kindes of Oake (and all Oakes 
by Diofcorides his opinion are binding) it is alfo of the fame qualitie,bura 
little weaker,and may ferue to ftrengthen weake members. The young tops 
and leaues are alfo wied in gargles for the mouth and throate. . 
“§f places where it hath beene long planted, toa very great height, whofe bodie 
and boughes are couered with a reddith ath-coloured bark ; the branches grow 
not {preading, but vpright clofe vnto the bodie, buthing thicke below, and {mall vp- 
mueene He Cyprefle tree that is nourfed yp by vs, in our Country, doth grow in thofe 
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. _ wards, {pire fathion, thofe below reachimg neere halte the way tothem aboue, where- 
on doegrow cuer greene leaues, fmall, long and flat, of arefinous {weete fmell, and 
ftrong tafte, fomewhar bitter : the fruit,which are called nuts, grow here and there 2- 
mong the boughes, fticking clofe vatothem, whichare {mall, and clouen into divers 
parts, but clofe whilethey are young, of aruffetith browne colour ; wherein are con- 
‘tained {mallbrowne feede, but not fe {mall as motes inthe Sune, as Matthiolns and 
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others make them to be. 
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