Plinies Naturall Hiftone. 4^1-7 



A cicanfedj and of it fclfc will Icapc out of the skin; And of this kind, the Sakiriahis mbre ne£lt , 

 flat^and finooth : the Tarentinc notfo eafic to bee handled and dealt with all: the Corellianis 

 more commended than the reft 5 as alfo the Meterane, which commeth of it by graffing ; the 

 manner whereof wee will fhcw when wee come to treat of grafics. Tbefe haVe a redpillmg, in 

 which regard they are preferred before either the three cornercdj or the blackc common ones* 

 which be alfo called Codiivx^ [u Cheftnuts to be boiled.] The beft Chettiiuts arc they which 

 grow about Tarcntum, and Naples in Gampaine. All the reft are good in manner for nothing 

 but to feed iivinc : * fo clofe ^ickcth the pill or inner skin alfo, as if it i^re foudercd to the kerndl ♦ sa uft^uft 

 within, andfohard is it tcS^arate the one from the other. 



2 Chap. XXIIII. thmamhs. 



^ ofCarrohes : of pjhls and pfdpoi^ fruits: ofMulkrries : of liquid kernels 

 r-Q, cr graines^and of berries^ 



T He fruit called Garobes or Garadls, mayfeeme to come neate unto the forcfaid Chcft- 

 nuts, (fopaifingfwect they be) but that their cods alfo arc good to be eaten i Tlicybceas 

 long as a mansfingcr,and otherwhiles hooked like a faulcheon, and an inch in bredth. As 

 for maft, it cannot be reckoned amongfruit properly called Poma, and therefore we will fpeakc 

 of them apart,according to their nature. 



Now arc we to treat of the rcfl which are of a carnoiis fubftancc : and thofc arc divided into 

 C fruits that be foft and pulpous,and into berries. The camofitic in Grapes and Raifons, in Mul- 

 bcrriesjand the fruit of the Arbut tree, differeth one from the other. Again, the flefhie fubftance 

 in Grapes between the skin and the liquid juice, is one, and that in Sebcllcn is another. Berries 

 have a carnofitic by themfclves , as namely Olives. Mulberries yeeld a juice or liquor within the 

 pulpe thereof^ refembling wine. They be ordinarily of three colours: at the beginning, white 5 

 (oone after, red 5 and when they be ripe, blackc. The Muiberric tree bloomcth with the laft, but 

 the fruit ripeneih with the firft, Mulberries when they be full ripe, ftainc a mans hands with the 

 juicethereof, and make them blacke: but con trariwife being unripe, they fcourethem cleane. 

 There is not a tree againe, wherein the wit of man hath been fo little inventive, either to devife 

 names for them, or to graffc them,or othcrwife,fave only to make the fruit fair and grcat.There 

 D is a difference which we at Rome doe make, betwcene the Mulberries of Oftia and Tufculum, 

 There is a kind of Mulberries growing upon the bramble, but their skin is much harder thail 

 the other. Like as the ground -ftrawbenics differ iq carnofitiefrom the fruit of the Arbut tree, 

 and yet it is held for a kind of Strawberrie, even as the tree it felfc is tcarmed the Strawberry tree^ 

 And there is not a fruit of any other tree, that refembleth the fruit of an hearb grov^ing by the 

 groundjbut it. 



The Arbut tree it felfc Iprcadeth full of braunchcs: the fruit is a whole ycarc in ripening: by 

 which means a man (hall find alwaies upon the tree, yong and old fruit togither one under ano- 

 therj^ the new evermore thruftcth out the old.Whether it be the male or female thatisbarren^ 

 writers are not agreed. Surely the fruit is of bafc or no reckoning at all: no maiveile thcrforeii" ' 

 £ the Latincs gave it the name Vnedo, for that one of them is enough to be eaten at once . And 

 yet the Greeks have two names for it,to wit, Gomarum and Memecylon: whereby it appeareth, 

 that there be as many kinds among the Latines alio, although it be tearmed by another namc^ 

 Arbutus. K. luba faith,that thefe trees in Arabia grow to the hcigth of fiftie cubits. 



As touching Graines and liquid Kernels, there is great difference between them : forfirfl afnd 

 forcmoft, among very grapes,there is no finall diverfitie in the skin ^cither for tendcrnes or thick- 

 nefle : in the inner iloncs or pcpins, which in fome grapes are but fiagle,or one alone^in others 

 doubIe,and thofe commonly yeeld not fb much wine as the others doe. Secondly, thofe of Ivie 

 and Elder differ very much: yea and the graines within a Pomcgranat are riot like to others in 

 their tbrmc, for they alone be made'cornered and angle- wife 5 and icvetall as they be,they have 

 p not a particular skin of their owne, but they are al togither clad within one, which is white : and 

 yp,t they ftand all wholly of a liquor and pulpouscainofitiejefpecially thofe which have within 

 tliem b ut a finall flone or woodie kernel!* 



Semblably,thcre is as much varietie in berries : for Olives differ much from Bay berries : like- 

 wife thofe of the Lote tree are divers from them which the Corncil tree bcat«h.Thc Myrtle alfo 



Q^q ij diffacil^ 



