582 The Orchard. 



The Peach du Troas is a long and great whitifh yellow Peach, red on the outfide, 

 early ripe, and is another kinde of Nutmeg Peach. 



The Queenes Peach is a faire great yellowifh browne Peach, fhadowed as it were 

 ouer with deepe red, and is ripe at Bartholmew tide, of a very pleafant good tafte. 



The Romane Peach is a very good Peach, and well rellifhed. 



The Durafme or Spanifh Peach is of a darke yellowifh red colour on the outfide, 

 and white within. 



The blacke Peach is a great large Peach, of a very darke browne colour on the out- 

 fide, it is of a waterifh tafte, and late ripe. 



The Alberza Peach is late ripe, and of a reafonable good tafte. 



The Almond Peach, fo called, becaufe the kernell of the ftone is fweete, like the Al- 

 mond, and the fruit alfo fomewhat pointed like the Almond in the huske ; it is early 

 ripe, and like the Newington Peach, but leffer. 



The Man Peach is of two forts, the one longer then the other, both of them are good 

 Peaches, but the fhorter is the better rellifhed. 



The Cherry Peach is a fmall Peach, but well tafted. 



The Nutmeg Peach is of two forts, one that will be hard when it is ripe, and eateth 

 not fo pleafantly as the other, which will bee foft and mellow ; they are both fmall 

 Peaches, hauing very little or no refemblance at all to a Nutmeg, except in being a 

 little longer then round, and are early ripe. 



Many other forts of Peaches there are, whereunto wee can giue no efpeciall name ; 

 and therefore I paffe them ouer in filence. 



... 



The Vfe of Peaches. 



Thofe Peaches that are very moift and waterifh (as many of them are) 

 and not firme, doe foone putrefie in the ftomacke, caufing furfeits often- 

 times; and therefore euery one had neede bee carefull, what and in what 

 manner they eate them : yet they are much and often well accepted with all 

 the Gentry of the Kingdome. 



The leaues, becaufe of their bitterneffe, ferue well being boyled in Ale 

 or Milke, to be giuen vnto children that haue wormes, to help to kill them, 

 and doe gently open the belly, if there be a fufficient quantity vfed. 



The flowers haue the like operation, that is, to purge the body fomewhat 

 more forceably then Damaske Rofes ; a Syrupe therefore made of the flow- 

 ers is very good. 



The kernels of the Peach ftones are oftentimes, vfed to be giuen to them 

 that cannot well make water, or are troubled with the ftone; for it openeth 

 the ftoppings of the vritory paffages, whereby much eafe enfueth. 



CHAP. XVI. 

 Nuciperjica. Neftorins. 



IPrefume that the name Nuciperjica doth moft rightly belong vnto that kinde of 

 Peach, which we call Neclorins, and although they haue beene with vs not many 

 yeares, yet haue they beene knowne both in Italy to Matthiolus, and others before 

 him, who it feemeth knew no other then the yellow Neclorin, as Dalechampius alfo : 

 But we at this day doe know fiue feuerall forts of Neclorins, as they fhall be prefently 

 fet downe ; and as in the former fruits, fo in this, I will giue you the defcription of one, 

 and briefe notes of the reft. 



The Neclorin is a tree of no great bigneffe, moft vfually leffer then the Peach tree, 

 his body and elder boughes being whitifh, the younger branches very red, whereon 

 grow narrow long greene leaues, fo like vnto Peach leaues, that none can well diftin- 

 guifh them, vnlefle it be in this, that they are fomewhat lefler : the bloffomes are all 

 reddifh, as the Peach, but one of a differing fafhion from all the other, as I fhall fhew 

 you by and by : the fruit that followeth is fmaller, rounder, and fmoother then Pea- 

 ches, without any cleft on the fide, and without any douny cotton or freeze at all ; and 



herein 





