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Of the Hiftorie of Pia 



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Fagus. 



The Beech 



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The tree is called in, Greeke. • i t 

 ane,/^ .• in high Dutch m^L* U 



SUCfcinlow DuL3tS^ baam • Q, 







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tre 5 Bee C h :ra aft )a ndBuck-3 Uft ' a 

 . The fruit i. called in Latino^ , 

 m Greekc, 8.W* wi: in bw D utcl "££' ; 



|eil tntfteOft in Frenchman EnSnT 

 Bjcch-maft Zttjf*,**, reckons the Beech 

 attiong theAcorne trees ; and yetis theSS 

 nothing « all like to an Acorne. Of X? 



fhrafim it is called Oxya : o(G«za, Sofa 



PtwyzKo makes mention of this tre Cl buc 

 vnder the name a£oJhj*(if(o b € in ft ea d of 

 Oftrj* we mull not reade Oxya)M.n ,u , , 

 It brings forthwith he, meaning Greece) 

 the tree oftrys, which they likewifc call o- 

 jlrya, growing alone among watery (Iodcs 

 like to the Aili tree in barke and bOughcs* 

 with leaues like thofe of the Pearetree,but 

 fomwhat longer and thicker,and with wrin- 

 kled cuts which run quite through, with a 

 feed like in colour to a Chcftnut, and not 

 to barlcyzthe wood is hard a,nd firme,which 

 being brought into the houfe there follows 

 hard trauell of child, and miferable deaths, 

 as it is reported ;and therefore it is robe 

 forborne, and not vfed as fire wood, H f li- 

 mes copies be not corrupted . 



^ The Temperature. 



The leaues of Beech do coole : the kernel! of the Nut is fane what moift. 



^ The Venues. 



The leaues of Beech are very profitably applied vntohot fwellings, blifter$,and excoriations j 



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and being chewed they are good for chapped lips,and paine of the gums. 



proceeding of rh 



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if they be eaten, and to caufc the grauell and fand the eafier to come forth. With thefe, nncc««* 

 Sqirrcls are greatly delighted, who do mightily incrcafe by feeding thereon : Swine alfo be famed 

 herewith, and certaine other beafts : alfo Deere doe feed thereon very greedily: they be lik wile 

 pleafant to Thrufhes and Pigeons, 



Pctrus Crefcentius writeth,That the afhes of the wood is good to make glalTe with. 



The water that is found in the hollowneile of Beeches cureth the naughty fcurfe, tetters, and 



Tcabs of menjhorfeSjkinejand (heepe,if they be waihed therewith. 



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HAP. 



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Of the (tAlmond tree. 



^r The Defer ipion. 



He Almond tree is like the Peach-tree, yet is it higher, bigger, of longer continoance-^^ 

 leaues be very long, fliarpe pointed, fnipt about the edges like thofe of the Peac \^ 

 floures be alike : the fruit is alfo like a Peach,hauing on one fide a cleft ,witn a lot . $ ^ 



nd coucred with a thin cotton . but vnder this there is none, or very little pulpe, w 4 {, ut 

 , „,: fti. . - wichm is Jon than that of tfae p eac h,noc lor re ^ 



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fmoothjin which is contained the kernel, in tafte fwect, and many times bitter :theroo 

 groweth deepe : the gum which foketh out hereof is likethatof thePeachtree. 



t There are diuers forts of Almonds, differing in largenes and tafterwe c°® m °, y 

 or fourc forts brought to vs,a large fweet Almond, vulgarly termed a Iordan AIm°" > 



cal ieJ 



another bitter one leffe than it. ± 



vulgarly termed a loruan /■»»» * , r onJt ifljes 



biglefle of the Valence Almond lo*t 



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