244 NATURAL HISTORY. 



queen-apple is ; and another apple, called the rose- 

 apple : mulberries, likewise, and grapes, though 

 most toward the skin. There is a peach also that 

 hath a circle of red towards the stone : and the 

 egriot cherry is somewhat red within ; but no pear, 

 nor warden, nor plum, nor apricot, although they 

 have many times red sides, are coloured red within. 

 The cause may be inquired. 



512. The general colour of plants is green, 

 which is a colour that no flower is of. There is a 

 greenish primrose, but it is pale, and scarce a green. 

 The leaves of some trees turn a little murry or red 

 dish and they be commonly young leaves that do so ; 

 as it is in oaks, and vines, and hazle. Leaves rot 

 into a yellow, and some hollies have part of their 

 leaves yellow, that are, to all seeming, as fresh and 

 shining as the green. I suppose also, that yellow is 

 a less succulent colour than green, and a degree 

 nearer white. For it hath been noted, that those 

 yellow leaves of holly stand ever towards the north 

 or north-east. Some roots are yellow, as carrots ; 

 and some plants blood-red, stalk and leaf, and alb 

 as amaranthus. Some herbs incline to purple and 

 red ; as a kind of sage doth, and a kind of mint, and 

 rosa solis, c. And some have white leaves, as 

 another kind of sage, and another kind of mint ; but 

 azure and a fair purple are never found in leaves. 

 This sheweth, that flowers are made of a refined 

 juice of the earth, and so are fruits ; but leaves of a 

 more coarse and common. 



5 13, It is a curiosity also to make flowers double, 



