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Of the Hiftorie of PJants. 



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vpon fhorc ftems or footftalkes.cluttering together in bunches : which being fallen thcredoecom P 

 in place raire and goodly apples, chamfered, vneuen, and bunched out in many places . of a brishr 

 ft mine red colour and the bignefTe of a goofe egge or a large pippin. The pulpe or meat is viv 

 tullofmoiftufe, {ofr,reddirt,,andofthefubftanceof a wheat plumme. The feed is fmall flatani 

 rough : the root fmal 1 and threddy : the whole plant is of a ranke and ftinking fauour. ' 

 m There hath happened vnro ray hands another fort,agreeing very notably with the former asvrrll 

 in leaues and ftalkesas alfo m floures- and roots,onely the fruit hereof>as yellow of colour wh™. 



inconfifteth the difference. 



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^ The Place. 



Apples of Loue grow in Spaine, Italic, and 

 fuch hot Countries, from whence my felfe haue 

 receiued feeds for my garden, where they doe in. 

 creafe and profper. 



m The Time. 



It is fowne in the beginning of April! in a bed 

 of hot horfe-dung, after the maner of muske Me- 

 lons and fuch like cold fruits. 



q\ The Names. 



The Apple of Loue is called in Latinc Pomum 



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Applesan Vrct\ch y Pomwes d'amours.Howbrit there 

 be other golden Apples whereof the Poets doe fa- 

 ble, growing in the Gardens of the daughters of 

 HeJJ>erud)Which a Dragon was appointed to keepe, 

 who, as they fable, was killed by Hercules. 



^ The Temperature. 



The Golden Apple, with the whole herbc it 

 felfe is cold, yet not fully fo cold as Mandrake,af- 

 ter the opinion of T)odon&us .But in my iudgement 

 it is very cold, yea perhaps in thehigheft degree 

 ofcoIdnefTe;myreafonis,becaule I haue in the 

 hotteft time of Summer cut away the fuperfluous 

 branches from the mother root , and caft them 

 away carelefly in the allies of my Garden, the 

 r A which (notwithstanding the extreme heate of the 



Sun, the hardneffe of the trodden allies, and at 

 that time when no rain at all did fal)haue growne 

 as frefti where I caft them,as before I did cut them off; which argueth the great coldnefle contai- 

 ned therein. True it is,that it doth argue alfo a great moifturc wherewith the plant is poflefTed, but 

 as I haue faid,not without great colcl,which I leaue to euery mans cenfure. 



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%The Vertues. 



prepared and boiled with pepper, 



falt,and oyle : but they yeeld very little nourishment to the body, and the fame naught and cor 



nd pepper mixed together for fauce to 



rupt 



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Muftard 



Chap. 6u Of the jEthiopian zAfple* 



m The Defection 



of ^Ethiopia hath large leaues of a wh 



I the edges^Imoft to the middle ribjthe which middle rib is armed with a few tharpe -p ft 



l The floures bewhite, confiftingof fix fmall leaues,with a certain yellow pointel in tn ^ 



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