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circle as with a garland, the heads of the liuing, and to fticke and decke forth 

 the bodies of the dead : fo that from the cradle to the grauc we haue ftill vfc 

 of it, we haue ftill neede of it. 



The berries likewife ferue for ftitches inward, and for paines outward, 

 that come of cold eyther in the ioynts, fincwes, or other places. 



2. Laurea Cerafus, fiue Laurus Virginiana. The Virginian Bay, 



or Cherry Baye. 



THis Virginian (whether you will call it a Baye, or a Cherrie, or a Cherrie Bay, 

 I leaue it to euery ones free will and iudgement, but yet I thinke I may as well 

 call it a Bay as others a Cherrie, neither of them being anfwerable to the tree, 

 which neyther beareth fuch berries as are like Cherries, neither beareth euer greene 

 leaues like the Bay : if it may therefore bee called the Virginia Cherry Bay, for a di- 

 ftinclion from the former Bay Cherry that beareth faire blacke Cherries, it will more 

 fitly agree thereunto, vntill a more proper may be impofed) rifeth vp to be a tree of a 

 reaf enable height, the ftemme or bodie thereof being almoft as great as a mans legge, 

 fpreading forth into diuers armes or boughes, and they againe into diuers fmall bran- 

 ches, whereon are fet without order diuers faire broade greene leaues, fomewhat like 

 vnto the former Bay leaues, but more limber and gentle, and not fo hard in handling, 

 broader alfo, and for the moft part ending in a point, but in many fomewhat round 

 pointed, very finely notched or toothed about the edges, of a bitter tafte, very neere 

 refembling the tarte of the Bay leafe, but of little or no fent at all, either greene or dry- 

 ed, which fall away euery autumne, and fpring afrefh euery yeare : the bloflbmes are 

 fmall and white, many growing together vpon a long ftalke, fomewhat like the Bird 

 Cherry bloflbmes, but fmaller, and come forth at the ends of the young branches, 

 which after turne into fmall berries, euery one fet in a fmall cup or huske, greene at the 

 firft, and blacke when they are ripe, of the bignefle of a fmall peafe, of a ftrong bitter 

 tafte, and fomewhat aromaticall withall, but without any flefhy fubftance like a Cherry 

 at all vpon it ; for it is altogether like a berry. 



The Vfe of this Virginia Cherry Bay. 



Being a ftranger in our Land, and poflefled but of a very few, I doe not 

 heare that there hath beene any triall made thereof what properties are in 

 it : let this therefore fuffice for this prefent, to haue mewed you the defcrip- 

 tion and forme thereof, vntill we can learne further of his vfes. 



3. Pinus. The Pine tree. 



MY purpofe in this place is not to fhew you all the diuerfities of Pine trees, or 

 of the reft that follow, but of that one kinde is planted in many places of our 

 Land for ornament and delight, and there doth reafonably well abide : take 

 it therefore into this Orchard, for the raritie and beautie of it, though we haue little o- 

 ther vfe of it. 



The Pine tree groweth with vs, though flowely, to a very great height in many 

 places, with a great ftraight bodie, couered with a grayifh greene barke, the younger 

 branches are fet round about, with very narrow long whitifh greene leaues, which fall 

 away from the elder, but abide on the younger, being both winter and fummer al- 

 waies greene. It hath growing in fundry places on the branches, certaine great hard 

 wooddy clogs (called of fome apples, of others nuts) compofed of many hard wood- 

 dy fcales, or tuberous knobs, which abide for the moft part alwaies greene in our 

 Countrey, and hardly become brownifli, as in other Countries, where they haue more 

 heat and comfort of the Sun, and where the fcales open themfelues ; wherein are con- 

 tained white long and round kernels, very fweete while they are frefh, but quickely 

 growing oylely and rancide. 



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