G10 Tbe Corollarie tothis Orchard. 
The Vie of the Line tree. 
It is planted bothto make goodly Arbours, and Summer banquetting 
houfes, either belowe vpon the ground, theboughes feruing very hand- . 
~ fomely to plafh round about it, or vp higher, forafecondaboueit, anda 
third alfo : for the more it is depreffed,the better it will grow. And I haue 
_ feeneat Cobhamin Kent, atallor great bodied Line tree, bare withont 
_ boughesfor eight foote high, andthenthe sees were {pread round a- 
bout fo orderly, as if ir were done by art, and brought to compaffethar 
_.». middle Arbour : And from thofe boughes the body was bare againe for 
eight or nine foore (wherein might bee placed halfean hundred menatthe _ 
~~~ feaft,as there might be likewife in that vnderneath this)& then another rowe _ 
_ OF branches to encompaffe a third Arbour, with ftayres made for the pur- 
_ pefetothisand that -vnderneath it: vponthe boughes were laidboards to 
_ tread vpon, which was the goodlieft fpectacle mine eyes euer beheld for 
‘Thecoles of the wood are the beft to make Gunpowder. And being 
kindled, and quenchédin vinegar , are good to diflolue clotted bloud in 
thofe that are bruifed with afall. The inner barke being fteeped in water 
4 
he 4 pReicvem flimie iuyce, which is found by experience,to be very profitable 
. orthemthathauebeen burntwithfire. | ee 
Te tree that is common in our country altho me places it 
doth notgrow great, yet hauc {eene it in fome other, to be as great asa pteat 
fi} apple tree in the body, bearing great arms;from whof{c {maller branches {pring 
forth young flender red fhootes, fet with many very fine, fmall, and fhort leaues, a lit- 
tlecrifped, like vntothe leaues of Satine, net hard or rough, but foft and greene : the 
flowers be white moflie threads , which turne into douniefecde, thatis carried away 
ite with the Wiede, SAY eee saeg Oa eS. : ; 
remarifims fo- ~Thercis another kinde hereof v beautifull and rare, not to be feene in this Land 
White Tana thinke, bue with Mz. William Ward the Kings feruantin his Granary,before remem- 
* take. bred, who brought me a {mall rwigge to fee from his houfe at Boram in Effex, whofe 
_«» braitches-are all red whilethey are young, and all the leaues white, abiding foallthe 
Summer long, without changing into any thew of greene like the other,and foabideth, 
~conftant yeare after yeare, yet fhedding the leauesin Winterliketheother. = 
The Vieof Tamariske. 
The greateft vfeof Tamariske is for (pleneticke difecalie cieter deatiaiile 
to drinkein. 
"18, Acer mains latifoliom. The great Maple or Sycomore tree, 
jig ).§ my | fa i 
=m He Sycomore tree, as we v{ually callit (and is the greateft kind of Maple,che- 
tithe in our Land onely in Orchards, or elfewhere for fhadeand walkes,both 
™® herein England, and in fome other countries.alfo)groweth quickly to beea 
faire fpreading great tree, with many boughes and branches, whofe barke isfomewhat 
4mooth : theleaues are very great, large, and{mooth, cut into foureorfiue diuifions, — 
and ending into fo many corners, cuery one tanding oh.a long réddifh alke:thebloo. 
“mings are ofayellowith greene colour, Satine date eies on each fide of along 
ftalke, which after turne into long and broad winged feede,two alwaies ftanding toge- 
ther on ftalke,and bunched out in the middle, wherethe feed or kernell lyech., very 
= i Vnto the common Maple growing wilde abroad’, ‘but many more together, and 
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