Orchard. 



The Conferue or Syrupe made of the berries, is effedtuall to coole an hot 

 flomacke, helping to refrefh and quicken vp thofe that are ouercome with 

 faintneffe. 



The berries are eaten in the Summer time, as an afternoones dim, to 

 pleafe the tafte of the ficke as well as the found. 



The iuyce and the diftilled water of the berries are verie comfortable 

 and cordiall. 



It is generally held of many, but how true I know not, that the red wine 

 that is vfually fold at the Vintners, is made of the berries of Rafpis that 

 grow in colder countries, which giueth it a kinde of harfhneffe : And alfo 

 that of the fame berries growing in hotter climates, which giueth vnto the 

 wine a more pleafant fweetneffe, is made that wine which the Vintners call 

 Alligant : but we haue a Vine or Grape come to vs vnder the name of the 

 Alligant Grape, as you mall finde it fet downe hereafter among the Grapes ; 

 and therefore it is likely to be but an opinion, and no truth in this, as it may 

 be alfo in the other. 



CHAP. II. 

 Ribes r ubra, alba, nlgra. Currans red, white, and blacke. 



THe bufhes that beare thofe berries, which are vfually called red Currans, are 

 not thofe Currans either blew or red, that are fold at the Grocers, nor any kind 

 thereof; for that they are the grapes of a certaine Vine, as mall be mewed by 

 and by : but a farre differing kinde of berry, whereof there are three forts, red, white, 

 and blacke. 



The red Curran bum is of two forts, and groweth to the height of a man, hauing 

 fometimes a ftemme of two inches thickneffe, and diuers armes and branches, couered 

 with a fmooth, darke, brownifh barke, without anie pricke or thorne at all vpon anie 

 part thereof, whereon doe growe large cornered blackifh greene leaues, cut in on the 

 edges, feeming to be made of fiue parts, almoft like a Vine leafe, the ends a little poin- 

 ting out, and {landing one aboue another on both fides of the branches : the flowers 

 are little and hollow, comming forth at the ioynts of the leaues, growing many toge- 

 ther on a long ftalke, hanging downe aboue a fingers length, and of an herbie colour : 

 after which come fmall round fruit or berries, greene at the firft, and red as a Cherry 

 when they are ripe, of a pleafant and tart tafte : the other differeth not in anie other 

 thing then in the berries, being twice as bigge as the former : the roote is wooddy, and 

 fpreadeth diuerfly. 



The white Curran bufh rifeth vfually both higher then the red, and ftraighter or 

 more vpright, bigger alfo in the ftemme, and couered with a whiter barke : the leaues 

 are cornered, fomewhat like the former, but not fo large : the flowers are fmall and 

 hollow like the other, hanging downe in the fame manner on long ftalkes, being of a 

 whiter colour : the berries likewife growe on the long ftalkes, fomewhat thicker fet to- 

 gether, and of a cleare white colour, with a little blacke head, fo tranfparent that the 

 feedes may be eafily feene thorough them, and of a more pleafant winie tafte then the 

 red by much. 



The blacke Curran bufh rifeth higher then the white, with more plentiful! bran- 

 ches, and more pliant and twiggie : the ftemme and the elder branches being couered 

 with a brownifh barke, and the younger with a paler : the flowers are alfo like vnto lit- 

 tle bottles as the others be, of a greenifh purple colour, which turne into blacke ber- 

 ries, of the bigneffe of the fmaller red Currans : the leaues are fomewhat like vnto the 

 leaues of the red Currans, but not fo large : both branches, leaues, and fruit haue a kind 

 of ftinking fent with them, yet they are not vnwholfome, but the berries are eaten of 

 many, without offending either tafte or fmell. 



The Vfe of Currans. 



The red Currans are vfually eaten when they are ripe, as a refrefhing to an 



hot 



