584 The Orchard. 



make Mackerons, or crafted ouer with Sugar, to make Comfits, or mixed 

 with Rofewater and Sugar, to make Butter, or with Barley water, to make 

 Milke, and many other waies, as euery one lift, that hath skill in fuch things. 



The oyle alfo of Almonds is vfed many waies, both inwardly and out- 

 wardly, for many purpofes; as the oyle of fweete Almonds mixt with 

 poudered white Sugar Candy, for coughes and hoarfeneffe, and to be drunk 

 alone, or with fome other thing (as the Syrupe of Marfh Mallowes) for the 

 ftone, to open and lenifie the paflages, and make them flipperie, that the 

 ftone may pafle the eafier. And alfo for women in Child bed after their fore 

 trauell. And outwardly either by it felfe, or with oyle of Tartar to make a 

 creame, to lenifie the skin, parched with the winde or otherwife, or to an- 

 noint the ftomacke either alone, or with other things to helpe a cold. 



The oyle of bitter Almonds is much vfed to be dropped into their eares 

 that are hard of hearing, to helpe to open them. And as it is thought, doth 

 more fcoure and cleanfe the skin then the fweet oyle doth, and is therefore 

 more vfed of many for that purpofe, as the Almonds themfelues are. 



CHAP. XVIII. 

 Mala Arantia. Orenges. 



1 Bring here to your confideration, as you fee, the Orenge tree alone, without menti- 

 oning the Citron or Lemmon trees, in regard of the experience we haue feen made 

 of them in diuers places : For the Orenge tree hath abiden with fome extraordi- 

 nary looking and tending of it, when as neither of the other would by any meanes 

 be preferued any long time. If therefore any be delirous to keepe this tree, he muft fo 

 prouide for it, that it be preferued from any cold, either in the winter or fpring, and 

 expofed to the comfort of the funne in fummer. And for that purpofe fome keepe 

 them in great fquare boxes, and lift them to and fro by iron hooks on the fides, or caufe 

 them to be rowled by trundels, or fmall wheels vnder them, to place them in an houfe, 

 or clofe gallerie for the winter time: others plant them againft a bricke wall in the 

 ground, and defend them by a fhed of boardes, couered ouer with feare-cloth in the 

 winter, and by the warmth of a ftoue, or other fuch thing, giue them fome comfort in 

 the colder times : but no tent or meane prouifion will preferue them. 



The Orenge tree in the warme Countries groweth very high, but with vs (or elfe it 

 is a dwarfe kinde thereof) rifeth not very high : the barke of the elder ftemmes being 

 of a darke colour, and the young branches very greene, whereon grow here and there 

 fome few thornes : the leaues are faire, large, and very greene, in forme almoft like a 

 Bay leafe, but that it hath a fmall eare, or peece of a leafe, fafhioned like vnto an heart 

 vnder euery one of them, with many fmall holes to be feene in them, if you hold them 

 vp betweene you and the light, of a fweet but ftrong fmell, naturally not falling away, 

 but alwaies abiding on, or vntill new be come vp, bearing greene leaues continually : 

 the flowers are whitifh, of a very ftrong and heady fent ; after which come fmall round 

 fruit, greene at the firft, while they are fmall, and not neere maturitie, but being grown 

 and ripe, are (as all men know) red on the out fide, fome more pale then others, and 

 fome kindes of a deeper yellowifh red, according to the climate, and as it receiueth the 

 heate of the funne, wherein is contained fower or fweete iuice, and thicke white ker- 

 nels among it : it beareth in the warme Countries both bloffbmes and greene fruit 

 continually vpon it, and ripe fruit alfo with them for the beft part of the yeare, but e- 

 fpecially in Autumne and Winter. 



The Vfe of Orenges. 



Orenges are vfed as fawce for many forts of meates, in refpecl: of their 

 fweete fowernefle, giuing a rellifh of delight, whereinfoeuer they are vfed. 



The inner pulpe or iuice doth ferue in agues and hot difeafes, and in Sum- 

 mer to coole the heate of deiefted ftomackes, or fainting fpirits. 



The 



