The Corollarie to this Orchard. 



The Vfe of the Line tree. 



It is planted both to make goodly Arbours, and Summer banquetting 

 houfes, either belowe vpon the ground, the boughes feruing very hand- 

 fomely to plam round about it, or vp higher, for a fecond aboue it, and a 

 third alfo : for the more it is depreffed, the better it will grow. And I haue 

 feene at Cobham in Kent, a tall or great bodied Line tree, bare without 

 boughes for eight foote high, and then the branches were fpread round a- 

 bout fo orderly, as if it were done by art, and brought to compafle that 

 middle Arbour: And from thofe boughes the body was bare againe for 

 eight or nine foote (wherein might bee placed halfe an hundred men at the 

 leaft, as there might be likewife in that vnderneath this) & then another rowe 

 of branches to encompaffe a third Arbour, with ftayres made for the pur- 

 pofe to this and that vnderneath it : vpon the boughes were laid boards to 

 tread vpon, which was the goodlieft fpedacle mine eyes euer beheld for 

 one tree to carry. 



The coles of the wood are the beft to make Gunpowder. And being 

 kindled, and quenched in vinegar, are good to diffolue clotted bloud in 

 thofe that are bruifed with a fall. The inner barke being fteeped in water 

 yeeldeth a flimie iuyce, which is found by experience, to be very profitable 

 for them that haue been burnt with fire.' 



ij. T'amarix. Tamariske tree. 



'He Tamariske tree that is common in our country, although in fome places it 

 doth not grow great, yet I haue feene it in fome other, to be as great as a great 

 apple tree in the body, bearing great arms ; from whofe fmaller branches fpring 

 forth young flender red fhootes, fet with many very fine, fmall, and fhort leaues, a lit- 

 tle crifped, like vnto the leaues of Sauine, not hard or rough, but foft and greene : the 

 flowers be white moffie threads, which turne into dounie feede, that is carried away 

 with the winde. 



Tamaiifcus fo- There is another kinde hereof very beautifull and rare, not to be feene in this Land 



Rjsalbidh. j t hinke, but with M r . William Ward, the Kings feruant in his Granary, before remem- 



riske. C ' bred, who brought me a fmall twigge to fee from his houfe at Boram in Eflex, whofe 



branches are all red while they are young, and all the leaues white, abiding fo all the 



Summer long, without changing into any mew of greene like the other and fo abideth 



conftant yeare after yeare, yet fhedding the leaues in Winter like the other. 





The Vfe of Tamariske. 



The greateft vfe of Tamariske is for fpleneticke difeafes, either the leaues 

 or the barke made into drinkes ; or the wood made into fmall Cans or Cups 

 to drinke in. 



1 8. Acer maius latifolium. The great Maple or Sycomore tree. 



THe Sycomore tree, as we vfually call it (and is the greateft kind of Maple, che- 

 rifhed in our Land onely in Orchards, or elfewhere for fhade and walkes, both 

 here in England, and in fome other countries alfo) groweth quickly to bee a 

 faire fpreading great tree, with many boughes and branches, whofe barke is fomewhat 

 fmooth : the leaues are very great, large, and fmooth, cut into foure or fiue diuifions, 

 and ending into fo many corners, euery one ftanding on a long reddifh ftalke : the bloo- 

 mings are of a yellowifh greene colour, growing many together on each lide of a long 

 ftalke, which after turne into long and broad winged feede, two alwaies ftanding toge- 

 ther on a ftalke, and bunched out in the middle, where the feed or kernell lyeth, very 

 like vnto the common Maple growing wilde abroad, but many more together, and 

 larger. The 



