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long beds in a Garden, being a maruailous fine ornament thereunto, in re- 

 gara it both grovveth lowe, is euer grecne, and by cutting may bee kept in 

 what maner euery one pleafe, as I haue before fpoken more largely. 



13. Sabina. The Sauine tree or bu(h. 



THe Sauine tree or bulh that is moft vfuall in our country, is a fmall lowe bufh, 

 not fo high as a man in any place, nor fo bigge in the ftemme or trunke as a 

 mans arme, with many crooked bending boughes and branches, whereon arc 

 fet many fmall, thort, hard, and prickly leaues, of a darkc green colour, frefh and green 

 both Winter and Summer: it is reported, that in the naturall places it beareth fmall 

 blacke berries, like vnto luniper, but with vs it was neuer knownc to beare any. 



The Vfe of Sauine. 



It is planted in out-yards, backfides, or voide places of Orchards, as well 

 to call clothes thereon to dry, as for medicines both for men and horfes: 

 being made into an oyle, it is good to annoint childrens bellies for to kill 

 the Wormes : and the powder thereof mixed with Hogs greafe, to annoint 

 the running fores or fcabs in their heads ; but beware how you giue it in- 

 wardly to men, women, or children. It is often put into horfes drenches, 

 to helpe to cure them of the bots, and other difeafes. 



14. Pa/iurus. Chrifts thorne. 



THis thorny fhrubbe (wherewith as it is thought, our Sauiour Chrift was crow- 

 ned, becaufe as thofe that haue trauelled through Paleftina and ludza, doe re- 

 port no other thorne doth grow therein fo frequent, or fo apt to be writhed) 

 rifeth in fome places to a reafonable height, but in our country feldome exceedeth the 

 height of a man, bearing many (lender branches, full of leaues, fet on either fide 

 thereof one by one, which are fomewhat broad and round, yet pointed, and full of 

 veines, thicke fet alfo with fmall thornes, euen at the foote of euery branch, and at the 

 foote of euery leafe one or two, fome (landing vpright, others a little bending downe : 

 the flowers are fmall and yellow, (landing for the moft part at the end of the bran- 

 ches, many growing vpon a long ftalke, which after turne into round, flat, and hard 

 (helly fruit, yet couered with a foft flefhy skinne, within which are included two or 

 three hard, fmall, and browne flat feeds, lying in feuerall partitions. The leaues hereof 

 fall away euery yeare, and fpring forth afrefh againe the next May following. The ra- 

 rity and beauty of this fhrubbe, but chiefly (as I thinke) the name hath caufed this to 

 be much accounted of with all louers of plants. 



The Vfe of Chriits thome. 



Wee haue fo few of thefe (hrubbes growing in our country, and thofe 

 that are, doe, for any thing I can vnderlhmd, neuer beare fruit with vs; that 

 there is no other vfe made hereof then to delight the owners : but this is cer- 

 tainly receiued for the Pa/iurus of Diofcorides and Theophraltus, and 

 thought alfo by Matthiolus to be the very true Rhamnus tertius of Diofco- 

 rides. Matthiolus alfo feemeth to contradict the opinion is held by the 

 Phylitians of Mompelier, and others, that it cannot be the Pa/iurus of The- 

 ophradus. It is held to be effectuall to helpe to breake the (tone, both in the 

 bladder, reines, and kidneyes : the leaues and young branches haue an altrin- 

 gent quality, and good againd poyfons and the bitings of ferpents. 



15. Larix. 



