604 The Corollarie to this Orchard. 



plants maketh mention, to be the firft Alaternus that Clufius hath fet forth in his Hi- 

 ftory of rarer plants : yet I finde, that Clufius himfelfe before his death doth appro- 

 priate that Celaftrus of Theophraftus to another plant, growing in the Garden at Ley- 

 den, which formerly of diuers had beene taken to be a kinde of Laurus Tinus, or the 

 wilde Baye ; but he impugning that opinion for diuers refpefts, decyphreth out that 

 Leyden tree in the fame manner that I doe : and becaufe it is not onely faire, in bearing 

 his leaues alwayes greene, but rare alfo, being nourfed vp in our Land in very few pla- 

 ces, but principally with a good old Lady, the widow of Sir lohn Leufon, dwelling 

 neere Rochefler in Kent ; I thought it fit to commend it for an ornament, to adorne 

 this our Garden and Orchard. It groweth vp to the height of a reafonable tree, the 

 body whereof is couered with a darke coloured barke, as the elder branches are in like 

 manner ; the younger branches being greene, whereon are fet diuers leaues thicke to- 

 gether, two alwayes at a ioynt, one againft another, of a fad but faire greene colour 

 on the vpperfide, and paler vnderneath, which are little or nothing at all fnipped about 

 the edges, as large as the leaues of the Laurus Tinus, or wilde Baye tree : at the end of 

 the young branches breake forth between the leaues diuers fmall ftalkes, with foure or 

 flue flowers on each of them, of a yellowifh greene colour, which turne into fmall ber- 

 ries, of the bignefle of blacke Cherries, greene at the firft, and red when they begin to 

 be ripe, but growing blacke if they hang too long vpon the branches, wherein is con- 

 tained a hard fhell, and a white hard kernell within it, couered with a yellowifh skin. 

 This abideth (as I faid before) with greene leaues as well Winter as Summer ; and 

 therefore fitteft to be planted among other of the fame nature, to make an euer greene 

 hedge. 



The Vfe of Clufius his Celaftrus. 



Being fo great a ftranger in this part of the Chriftian world, I know 

 none hath made tryall of what property it is, but that the tafte of the leaues 

 is fomewhat bitter. 



10. Pyracantha. The euer greene Hawthorne, 

 or prickly Corall tree. 



THis euer greene fhrubbe is fo fine an ornament to a Garden or Orchard, either 

 to be nourfed vp into a fmall tree by it felfe, by pruining and taking away the 

 fuckers and vnder branches, or by fuffering it to grow with fuckers, thicke and 

 plafhing the branches into a hedge, for that it is plyable to be ordered either way ; that 

 I could not but giue you the knowledge thereof, with the defcription in this manner. 

 The younger branches are couered with a fmooth darke blewim greene barke, and 

 the elder with a more afh coloured, thicke fet with leaues without order, fome greater 

 and others fmaller, fomewhat like both in forme and bignefle vnto the leaues of the 

 Barberry tree, but fomewhat larger, and more fnipt about the edges, of a deeper green 

 colour alfo, and with fmall long thornes fcattered here & there vpon the branches : the 

 flowers come forth as well at the ends of the branches, as at diuers places at the ioynts 

 of the leaues, ftanding thicke together, of a pale whitifh colour, a little dafht ouer with 

 a fhew of blufh, confifting of fiue leaues a peece, with fome fmall threads in the mid- 

 dle, which turne into berries, very like vnto Hawthorne berries, but much redder and 

 dryer, almoft like polifhed Corall, wherein are contained foure or fiue fmall yellowifh 

 white three fquare feede, fomewhat fhining. It is thought to be the Oxyacantha of Di- 

 ofcorides ; but feeing Diofcorides doth explaine the forme of the leafe in his Chapter 

 of Medlars, which he concealed in the Chapter of Oxyacantha, it cannot be the fame : 

 for Mefpilus Anthedon of Theophraftus, or Aroma of Diofcorides, hath the leafe of 

 Oxyacantha, as Diofcorides faith, or of Smalladge, as Theophraftus, which cannot 

 agree to this Thorne ; but doth moft liuely delineate out our white Thorne or Haw- 

 thorne, that now there is no doubt, but that Oxyacantha of Diofcorides is the Haw- 

 thorne tree or bufh. 



The Vfe of this Corall tree. 



Although Lobel maketh mention of this tree to grow both in Italy, and 



Prouince 



