The Orchard. 





three fet together, couered with a double (hell, that is to fay, with a greene thicke and 

 foft outer rinde, and an inner hard (hell, within which the white kernell is contained, 

 couered with a thinne yellow rinde or peeling, which is more eafily peeled away 

 while it is greene then afterwards, and is as it were parted into foure quarters, with a 

 thinne wooddy peece parting it at the head, very fweetc and pleafant while it is frefh, 

 and tor a while after the gathering ; but the elder they growe, the harder and more 

 oily : the catkins or blowings arc long and yellow, made of many fcaly leaues let clofc 

 together, which come forth early in the Spring, and when they open and fell away, vp- 

 on their ftalkes arife certaine fmall flowers, which turne into fo many nuts. 



The Vfe of Wallnuts. 



They are often ferued to the table with other fruits while they abide 

 fre(h and fweete ; and therefore many to keepe them frefh a long time haue 

 deuifed many wayes, as to put them into great pots, and bury them in the 

 ground, and fo take them out as they fpend them, which is a very good 

 way, and will keepe them long. 



The fmall young nuts while they are tender, being preferued or candid, 

 are vfed among other forts of candid fruits, that ferue at banquets. 



The iuyce of the outer greene huskesare held to be a foueraigne remedy 

 againrt either poyfon, or plague, or peftilentiall feuer. 



The diftilled water of the huskes drunke with a little vinegar, if the fits 

 growe hot and tedious, is an approued remedy for the fame. 



The water dirtilled from the leaues, is effecluall to be applyed to fluent 

 or running v leers, to dry and binde the humours. 



Some haue vfed the pouder of the catkins in white wine, for the fuffoca- 

 tion or ftrangling of the mother. 



The oyle of Wallnuts is vfed to varnifh loyners workes. As alfo is ac- 

 counted farre to excell Linfeede oyle, to mixe a white colour withall, that 

 the colour bee not dimmed. It is of excellent vfe for the coldnefle, hard- 

 nelTe and contracting of the linewes and ioynts, to warme, fupple, and to 

 extend them. 



CHAP. XXIII. 

 Cajlanea Equina. The Horfe Chefnut. 



ALthough the ordinary Chefnut is not a tree planted in Orchards, but left to 

 Woods, Parkes, and other fuch like places ; yet wee haue another fort which 

 wee haue nourfed vp from the nuts fent vs from Turky, of a greater and more 

 pleafant afpeft for the faire leaues, and of as good vfe for the fruit. It groweth in time 

 to be a great tree, fpreading with great armes and branches, whereon are fet at feuerall 

 diftances goodly faire great greene leaues, diuided into (ix, feuen, or nine parts or 

 leaues, euery one of them nicked about the edges, very like vnto the leaues of Rtcinus, 

 or Pa/ma Chrijti, and almoft as great : it beareth at the ends of the branches many flow- 

 ers fet together vpon a long rtalke, confiding of foure white leaues a peece, with many 

 threads in the middle, which afterwards turne into nuts, like vnto the ordinary Chef- 

 nuts, but fet in rougher and more prickly huskes : the nuts themfelues being rounder 

 and blacker, with a white fpot at the head of each, formed fomewhat like an heart, and 

 of a little fweeter tafte. 



The Vfe of this Chefnut. 



It ferueth to binde and ftop any maner of fluxe, be it of bloud or humours, 

 either of the belly or ftomacke ; as alfo the much fpitting of bloud. They are 

 roafted and eaten as the ordinary fort, to make them tafte the better. 



They are vfually in Turkic giuen to horfes in their prouender, to cure 

 them of coughes, and helpe them being broken winded. 



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