562 The Orchard. 



The berries are preferued and conferued to giue to ficke bodies, to helpe 

 to coole any heate in the ftomacke or mouth, and quicken the appetite. 



The depurate iuyce is a fine menftrue to diflblue many things, and to ve- 

 rie good purpofe, if it be cunningly handled by an Artifl. 



The yellow inner barke of the branches, or of the rootes, are vfed to be 

 boyled in Ale, or other drinkes, to be giuen to thofe that haue the yellow 

 iaundife : As alfo for them that haue anie fluxes of choller, to helpe to flay 

 and binde. 



Clufius fetteth downe a fecret that hee had of a friend, of a cleane diffe- 

 ring propertie, which was, that if the yellow barke were laid in fteepe in 

 white wine for the fpace of three houres, and afterwards drunke, it would 

 purge one very wonderfully. 



CHAP. V. 



Nux Auellana. The Filberd. 



r "T~"' He Filberd tree that is planted in Orchards, is very like vnto the Hafell nut tree 

 that groweth wilde in the woods, growing vpright, parted into many boughes 

 * and tough plyable twigges, without knots, couered with a brownifh, fpeckled, 

 fmooth, thinne rinde, and greene vnderneath : the leaues are broad, large, wrinkled, 

 and full of veines, cut in on the edges into deepe dents, but not into any gafhes, of a 

 darke greene colour on the vpperfide, and of a grayifh afh colour vnderneath : it hath 

 fmall and long catkins in ftead of flowers, that come forth in the Winter, when as they 

 are firme and clofe, and in the Spring open themfelues fomewhat more, growing 

 longer, and of a brownifh yellow colour : the nuts come not vpon thofe ftalkes that 

 bore thofe catkins, but by themfelues, and are wholly inclofed in long, thicke, rough 

 huskes, bearded as it were at the vpper ends, or cut into diuers long iagges, much 

 more then the wood nut : the nut hath a thinne and fomewhat hard fhell, but not fo 

 thicke and hard as the wood nut, in fome longer then in other, and in the long kinde, 

 one hath the skinne white that couereth the kernels, and another red. 



There is another fort of the round kinde that came from Conflantinople, whofe 

 huske is more cut, torne, or iagged, both aboue and belowe, then any of our country ; 

 the barke alfo is whiter, and more rugged then ours, and the leaues fomewhat larger. 



We haue had from Virginia Hafell nuts, that haue beene fmaller, rounder, browner, 

 thinner fheld, and more pointed at the end then ours : I know not if any hath planted 

 of them, or if they differ in leafe or any thing elfe. 



The VfeofFilberds. 



Filberds are eaten as the beft kinde of Hafell nuts, at bankets among o- 

 ther dainty fruits, according to the feafon of the yeare, or otherwife, as 

 euery one pleafe : But Macer hath a Verfe, expreffing prettily the nature of 

 thefe nuts, which is, 



Ex minimis nucibus nulli datur efca falubris. 



that is, There is no wholfome food or nourimment had from thefe fmall 

 kinde of nuts. 



Yet they are vfed fometime phyfically to be rofled, and made into a Lo- 

 hoc or Ele6luary, that is vfed for the cough or cold. And it is thought of 

 fome, that Mithridates meant the kernels of thefe nuts, to be vfed with Figs 

 and Rue for his Antidote, and not of Walnuts. 



CHAP. 



