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Thefe trees 



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% The Time. 



They floureand flotirilTi in Aprill,and their fruit is rij 



The Names . 





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Armc 



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Abiecock 



and Aprecock tree. 



The fruit is named wu* iWi«,i , and of diuers, a^«u«wo» t or b^wkwo* which bee words corrupted 

 from the Latine j for Precox in Latine is diuers times called Prtcoquum : it is named Malum Arme- 

 nijenm^nd commonly Armemacumim high- Dutch, jg)0Uettcn 530Olleltn,&+3fr^att£ IDfetfltlgS 

 in low Dutchj^JcOCgC^etfcn^Uant perfCIi: in It^li^Armemacbe^Bacochc, Crifomele^Moniache: 



precock,and Aprccox 



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both of them bee 



called Armemaca. Others pronounce them Armeniamth foure fy liable*. And in his book of the Fa- 

 culties of fimple medicines he affirmeth,that both the fruit and the tree are called **»*««f .• Diuers 

 al Co of the later phy fitians do betwixt thefe make a difFerence,faying,that the greater ones & thofe 



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Aprecockes arc cold and moift in the fecond degree, but yet not fo moift as Pcachcs,for which A 



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full of excrements .Being taken after meat they corrupt and putrifie in the ftomack ; being firft ea- 

 ten before meat they eafily defcend.and caufe other meats to pafle down the fooner .like as alfo the 

 Peaches do. 



Thevertuesof the leaues of this tree are not yet found out. 



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C a a p . $6 . Of the ^Pomegranat tree. 



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S there be fundry forts of AppIes,Peares,Plums, and fuch like fruits 5 fo there arc two forts of 

 Pomegranats,the garden and the wildc,and a third fort which is barren and f ruitlefTe.-the fruit 



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and pleafant liquor,and the third the taft ofwine. Of the wild alfo there be two forts,and the dif- 

 ference between them is no more than betwixt crabs and weildings, which are both wilde kinde! 

 °i apples. Therefore the defcription of the garden Pomcgran at (hall fuffice for the reft* 





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He manured Pomegranat treegroweth vp to the height of an hedge tree,beeing feuen 

 or eight cubits higb,hauing many pliant twiggy branches>very limber, tough,and of a 



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indented on the edges like a ftar,of a Carnation coIour,and very fingle ; after which corameth the 

 fruit,couered with an hard bark of an ouerworne purplifh colourful 1 of grains and kernells,which 

 after they be ripe are of a crimfon colounand full of juice,which differeth in taft according'to the 

 Jjt'ejclymatjand country where they growjfomebe fweet,others foure.and the third are in a mid- 

 dle between them botb,hauing thetafteof wine. 



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The wild Pomegranat tree is like the other in leaues an 



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' ^granatjthe other bearing floures very.double,a$ may appeareby the figure,whicn * ither and 



fall 



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