T be Cj arden of plea/ant t loners* 
ycllowirti greene vnderncath : at the tops of the young branches come forth the flow- 
ers, which in the one fort before they are open, are of an excellent bright crimfon co- 
lour, and being blowen, confift of foure long and narrow leaues, round pointed, 
fomewhat twining themfelues, of apalerred colour, almofttendingtoblulh, and in 
the other are white, thegreene leaues alfo being of a little frefher colour : after the 
flowers are part, in the hot countries,but neuer in ours, there come vp long bending or 
crooked flat pods, whofe outward (hell is hard, almofl: woody, and of a bro wne co- 
lour, wherein is contained (mall flat bfowniflifeede, wrapped in a great deale of a 
brownifli yellow doune, as fine almoft as filkc, fomewhatlikevntothe huskesof Af. 
cltfuts , or Periploca, but larger, flatter and harder ; as my felfe can reftifie, who had 
fomeof the pods of this Rofe bay, brought meeout of Spaine, by Matter Dodtor 
IohnMorc, the feedes whereof I fowed, and had diuers plants that I raifed vp vnto 
a rcafonable height, but they require, as well old as young, to beedefended from the 
colde of our winters. 
This beautifull Bay in his naturali place of growing, groweth to beea tree of a rea- 
fonable bignelfe and height, and oftentimes with vs alfo if it bee pruined from the 
lower branches ; but more vfually in thefe colder Countries, it groweth as a flirub or 
hedge bufh, (hooting forth many branches, whereof the greater and lower arc couered 
with a darkegrayifh greene barke, but the young ones are very greene, whereon are 
fet many goodly, faire, large, thicke and long leaues, a little dented about the edges, 
of a more excellent frefh (hining greene colour, and farre larger then any Bay leafe, 
and compared by many to the leaues of the Ptmtritron tree (which becaufe wee haue 
none in our Countrey , cannot be fo well known)both for colour and largenefle, which 
yecld a raoft gracefull afped : it beareth long ftalkes of whitifli flowers, at the ioynts 
of the leaues both along the branches and towards the ends of them alfo, like vnto 
the Birds Cherry or Pudus 'fhcophrttsU, which the French men call Putter & Cerifier 
l>Unc, but larger and greater, confiding of fiue leaues with many threds in the middle: 
after which commeth the fruite or berries, as large or great as Flanders Cherries, ma- 
ny growing together one by another on a long ftalke, as the flowers did, which arc 
very blacke and (hining on the outfide, with a little point at the end, and reafonablc 
fweetc in tafte, wherein is contained a hard round ftonc,very like vnto a Cherry done, 
ail haue obferued as well by thofe I receiued out of Italie, as by them I had of Matter 
lames Cole a Merchant of London lately deceafed, which grew at his houfein High- 
gate, where there is a faire tree which hee defended from the bitterneffe of the wea- 
ther in winter by carting a blanket ouer the toppe thereof eueryyeare, thereby the 
better to preferueit. 
The firft is not certainly knowne from whence it came, and is communi- 
cated by the fuckers it yeeldeth. The fecond groweth in Spaine, Italie, 
Grece,and many other places : that with white flowers is recorded by Bel- 
lonius, to grow in Candy. Thelaft,asMatthiolus, and after him Clufius 
report, camefirft from Conftantinople : I had a plant hereof by thefricud- 
lygiftof Matter lames Cole, the Merchant before remembred, agreatlo- 
uerof all rarities, who had it growing with him at his countrey houfein 
Highgate aforefaid, where it hath flowred diuers times, and borne ripe fruit 
alfo. 
The firft flowreth many times in the end of theyeare before Chriftmas, 
and often alfo in Ianuary, but the moft kindly time is In March and Aprili, 
when the (loweis are fweeteft. The fecond flowreth not vntill Iuly. The 
laft in May, and the fruit is ripe in Auguft and September. 
3 . Lturoccrtfus. The Bay Cherry. 
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