The Orchard, 



banquets, and much more for the Phyficall vertues, whereof to write at 

 large is neither conuenient for mee, nor for this worke : I will onely briefly 

 recite fome, as it were to giue you a tafte of that plenty remaineth therein, 

 to bee conuerted into fundry formes : as firft for the table, while they are 

 frefh (and all the yeare long after being pickled vp) to be baked, as a dainty 

 dim, being well and orderly cookt. And being preferued whole in Sugar, 

 either white or red, ferue likewife, not onely as an after dim to clofe vp the 

 ftomacke, but is placed among other Preferues by Ladies and Gentlewo- 

 men, and beftowed on their friends to entertaine them, and among other 

 forts of Preferues at Banquets. Codimacke alfo and Marmilade, lelly and 

 Pafte, are all made of Quinces, chiefly for delight and pleafure, although 

 they haue alfo with them fome phyficall properties. 



We haue for the vfe of phyficke, both luyce and Syrupe, both Conferue 

 and Condite, both binding and loofening medicines, both inward and out- 

 ward, and all made of Quinces. 



The lelly or Muccilage of the feedes, is often vfed to be laid vpon wo- 

 mens breafts, to heale them being fore or rawe, by their childrens default 

 giuing them fucke. 



Athenaeus reciteth in his third booke, that one Philarchus found, that 

 the fmell of Quinces tooke away the ftrength of a certaine poifon, called 

 Phariacum. And the Spaniards haue alfo found, that the ftrength of the 

 iuyce of white Ellebor (which the Hunters vfe as a poyfon to dippe their 

 arrow heads in, that they fhoote at wilde beafts to kill them) is quite 

 taken away, if it ftand within the compafle of the fmell of Quinces. 

 And alfo that Grapes, being hung vp to bee kept, and fpent in Win- 

 ter, doe quickly rot with the fmell of a Quince. 



CHAP. XXI. 

 Pyra. Peares. 



THe variety of peares is as much or more then of apples, and I thinke it is as 

 hard in this, as before in apples, for any to be fo exquifite, as that hee could 

 number vp all the forts that are to be had : for wee haue in our country fo ma- 

 nie, as I mall giue you the names of by and by, and are hitherto come to our know- 

 ledge : but I verily beleeue that there be many, both in our country, and in others, that 

 we haue not yet knowne or heard of; for euery yeare almoft wee attaine to the know- 

 ledge of fome, we knew not of before. Take therefore, according to the manner be- 

 fore held, the defcription of one, with the feuerall names of the reft, vntill a more ex- 

 a<l difcourfe be had of them, euery one apart. 



The Peare tree groweth more flowly, but higher, and more vpright then the apple 

 tree, and not lefle in the bulke of the body : his branches fpread not fo farre or wide, 

 but growe vprighter and clofer : the leaues are fomewhat broader and rounder, greene 

 aboue, and whiter vnderneath then thofe of the apple tree : the flowers are whiter and 

 greater : the fruit is longer then round for the moft part, fmaller at the ftalke, and grea- 

 ter at the head, of fo many differing formes, colours, and taftes, that hardly can one 

 diftinguifh rightly between them, the times alfo being as variable in the gathering and 

 fpending of them, as in apples : the roote groweth deeper then the apple tree, and 

 therefore abideth longer, and giueth a fafter, clofer, & fmoother gentle wood, eafie to 

 be wrought vpon. 



The kindes of Peares. 



The Summer bon Chretien is fomewhat a long peare, with a greene and yellow 

 rufletifh coate, and will haue fometimes red fides ; it is ripe at Michaelmas : fome vfe 

 to dry them as they doe Prunes, and keepe them all the yeare after. I haue not feene 

 or heard any more Summer kindes hereof then this one, and needeth no wall to nourfe 

 it as the other. The 



