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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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Of the Fig Tree. 



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Trie garden Figtrec becomraetha treeof a meane ftatur ej hauing many branches fan e 

 white pub withm,like Elderne pith,and large Ieaues of adarke greenecoW ^ °! 

 .Wundryfcaioosordiuifi^ 

 fioure at all that euer I could perceiue, which fruit is in foape like vnto Peares Sou ^ V 



which being broken before it be r.pe.dorh yeeld moft white railkc. liic P «nm rfe* uiL ITc™* 



thereof 



hony 



doe yeeld the like liq 



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The Fig tree. 









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Cham&ficus. 



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The dwarfe Figtrec. 







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•l The dwarfe Fig tree is like vnto the former in Ieaues and fruit, but it j^^iaSy in 

 the height of a man, and hath many fmall .hoots comming from the roots, wnere j 



creafeth. . . * $ Dameth it Erint^m 



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•Caprifc 



The 

 where t 



tipe ; Theophnfr 



ej The Place. 



itifully in Spaine and Italy, and many oth 

 neuer commeth tokindely matunty^xce) 



land 



North,! 



^f The Time. 



ir^^n and hrinsieth 



monecii of Auguft.of which Figs fundry perfons haue eaten at P Icafl "^ M ^erc oftentin* $ l 



In England the Fig trees put not forth their Ieaues vntill the end 01 m /» . • «r Tfc 



fruit commeth before the Ieaues appeare. 



