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The Vie of Cherries. 



All thcfe forts of Cherries ferue wholly to pleafe the palate, and are eaten 

 ;it all times, both before and alter ineales. 



All Cherries are cold, yet the lower more then the fweete ; and although 

 the fweete doe molt pleafe, yet the lower are more wholfome, if there bee 

 regard taken in the vling. 



The Agriot or fower Cherries are in France much vfed to bee dryed (as 

 is faid before) as Pruines are, and fo ferue to be miniftred to the lick in all hot 

 difeafes, as feuers &c. being both boyled in their drinkes, and taken now 

 and then of themfelues, which by reafon of their tartneffe, doe pleafe the 

 ftomacke palling well. 



The Gum of the Cherrie tree is commended to bee good for thofe are 

 troubled with the grauell or ftone. It is alfo good for the cough being dif- 

 folued in liquour, and ftirreth vp an appetite. The diftilled water of the 

 blacke Cherries, the ftones being broken among them, is vfed for the fame 

 purpofe, for the grauell, ftone, and winde. 



CHAP. XIII. 

 Pruntts. The Plumme tree. 



THere are many more varieties of Plummes then of Cherries, fo that I muft 

 follow the fame order with thefe that I did with them, euen giue you their 

 names apart, with briefe notes vpon them, and one defcription to ferue for all 

 the reft. And in this recitall I lhall leaue out the Apricockes which are certainly a kind 

 ot Hum, of an efpeciall difference, and not of a Peach, as Galen and fome others haue 

 thought, and fet them in a chapter by themfelues, and only in this fet down thofe fruits 

 are vfually called Plums. 



The Plum tree (efpecially diuers of them) rifeth in time to bee a reafonable tall and 

 great tree, whofe bodie^and greater armes are couered with a more rugged barke, yet 

 in fome more or lelfe, the younger branches being fmooth in all, the leaues are fome- 

 what rounder then thofe of the Cherrie tree, and much differing among themfelues, 

 fome being longer, or larger, or rounder then others, and many that are exercifed here- 

 in, can tell by the leafe what Plum the tree beareth (I fpeake this of many, not of all) as 

 in many Cherries they can doe the like : the flowers are white, confifting of fiue 

 leaues : the fruit is as variable in forme, as in tafte or colour, fome being ovall or Peare 

 falhion or Almond like, or fphericall or round, fome firme, fome foft and waterifh, 

 fome fweete, fome fower or harlh, or differing from all thefe taftes : and fome white, 

 others blacke, fome red, others yellow, fome purple, others blew, as they lhall bee 

 briefly fet downe vnto you in the following lines, where I meane not to infert any the 

 wilde or hedge fruit, but thofe only are fit for an Orchard, to be ftored with good fruit : 

 and of all which forts, the choyfeft for goodnelfe, and rareft for knowledge, are to 

 be had of my very good friend Mafter lohn Tradefcante, who hath wonderfully la- 

 boured to obtaine all the rareft fruits hee can heare off in any place of Chriftendome, 

 Turky, yea or the whole world; as alfo with Mafter lohn Milieu, dwelling in Olde 

 ftreete, who from lohn Tradefcante and all others that haue had good fruit, hath ftored 

 himfelfe with the beft only, and he can fumciently furnilh any. 



The Amber Primordian Plumme is an indifferent faire Plumme, early ripe, of a pale 

 yellowifh colour, and ot a vvaterilli tafte, not pleaiing. 



The red Primordian Plumme is of a reafonable fize, long and round, reddifh on 

 the outfide, of a more dry tafte, and ripe with the firft forts in the beginning of Au- 

 guft. 



The blew Primordian is a fmall plumine, almoft like the Damafcene, and is fubiecl 

 to drop off from the tree before it be ripe. 



The white Date Plum is no very good plum. 



The 



