PJinies Naturall Fliftone. 



A they are able to dull the edge of any knife that fhall cut them. To conclude, the Dacian Apples 

 are ofall others in manner leaft accepted^ notwithftanding they be fiift mellovv^and would bee 

 gathered betimes. 



Chap. xv. 



}^ of Pear es. And of the vmetie ofgraffmg^ 



VPon the fame caufc there be Peares alfo reproched with the name of Pride, and are called 

 the Proud-peares : little they are^but quickly ripejand as foone gone.Of all others the Cru- 

 ftumine peares be moft delicat and pleafant in taft.Next to them in requeft are die Falernc 

 peares/o called for their great abundance of liquor, as it were winCj whereof they are full. And 

 thcfe arc named likcwife the milke-peares; but fuch of them as are of colour blackejbe called the 

 Syrian peares. Asforotherpcares,thcy have fundrie names accordingto the countries where- 

 in they groy*. Howbeit thefc peares foliowing,retaine their name ftill in all placesjand reprefcnt 

 ^ alwaies the mcmoriall of ihofe that firft-planted or graffed them^to witjDecimiana of one Dec'u 

 tnua^z knowne citizen of Rome; of which is alfo a baitard kind which they call Pfeudodecimia- 

 na. Likewife, the Dolobellian pearepf one DoUbelU : and thofeareof allotherthelongeft tai- 

 led. As touching thePompeian pcaresjwhich be alfo called the Pap or Teat-peares^the Liceri- 

 an,the Severian, and of their race the Tyrannian, they differ one from another in the length of 

 their fteale. The redFavonian peares be fomewhatgteater than the abovenamcd Proud-peares, 

 As tor the Latetian and Anitian, which be not gadiered nor ripe untill Aucumne be pall, they 

 Q have a|>retie tart and fourifh taftjbut nathelefle pleafant ynougb.The Tyberian peares beare die 

 * x^smt of T.berm theEmperour/or that of all others he loved that fruit beft: diey might goe for 

 Licerians well ynoughj fo like they be unto them, fave onely that they grow big, and are more 

 deepely coloured with thcSunne. 



Moreover,there be peares which are known by no other name than of the countries where they 

 grow, namely jdiofe of Ameria which are more lateward than any other : the Piccntine,Ni]ni2rt- 

 linejAlexandrine^NumidianjGrecian^and among them the Tarentine. Alfo the Signine pears, 

 which many call Teftacea, of the colour of earthen pots which they refemblejlikc as others be 

 named Oiiychinunij for that they reprefent the Onyx ftonepr a mans naile ; as alfo thofe which 

 be called Purplc-peares. 



D Furthermore,peares take :heir name of the odour which they yeeld : thus there jje Myrapia, 

 to wit, Aromaticall-pearesjLaurelljandNard-peares. Of the time alfo when they be npe^as the 

 Barley-peares: of the forme of their neckjas the Bottle peares called Ampullacea: of their thick 

 skiojas the Corio!ana. As for the Gourd- pcares^they are by nature of a brutifbi and favage kind 5 

 fo harl'n,fo loure and eager a liquor they doe yccld. 



Manylbrtsof peares there are, whereof we can givenoceitainereafonfortheii denominati- 

 onpamely^the Barbarian and Venerian pearesjwhich alfo be called Coloured : iikewifcjthe toi- 

 all pearesjwhich hang or rather fticke flat to the tree,fo iliort a lieele they have.Thc Patritian al- 

 fo and V oconian peareSjwhich are both greene and long. MoreoverjF/?-^// hath fpoken of the 

 Volemian peares or wardens, which he had from Cato^vAio alfo namcth the Sementiuai or the 



E haff ie and foonc ripe peares.Soas in this point verily the world is grownealrc'adie to the highcft 

 pitchjinioniuch^as there is not a fruit^but men have made triall and many experiments/or even 

 in Virgili daies the devife of graffing ff range ftuiiSjwas very rife : coniidering that he fpeaketh of 

 the Arbute tree graffed upon Nut-trees, the Plane upon Apple tiees^and the Elme upon Cher- 

 lie ftockes. hi fuchibrtj3s 1 fee not how men can devife to proceed farther. And certcs for this 

 long time^there hath not been a new kind of Apple or other fruit heard of. 



And yet as indufttious as men have been that way, they are not permitted to graffe all man- 

 ner of trees indifferently one in anothetj nomorethauitislawfullto gratfeupon bufhes and 

 thornes : feeing that itjs not fo eafie a matter to appeafe lightnings : for looke how many forts of 

 trees are thus engraffed contrarie to nature/o many kinds of lightnings and thunderbolts by re- 



p portyarc flalhed and fbot at once, 



Peares naturally are more (harpc- pointed at one end than Apples. And among them, the 

 Greeke pearesjthe Gourd and Lawrell peares are lafl of all others ripe : for they hang upon the 

 tree uniili VVinterjand they mellow with very frofl : like as the Amerine and Scantianc apples. 

 FurthermorCjpeares are kept and preferved as grapes^ and after fo many waies .-but none of 



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