T be (jar den of plea! ant Flowers, 
tafte it hath , both while it is frelh, and after it hath beene long keprJrv“ 
dorheuidcmly declare his tenuity of parts, adigeftingand cleanfing qua- 
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Chap. CXIX. 
Arbor lui*. Iudas tree. ‘ 
I Vdas tree rifeth vp in fome places, where it ftandeth open from a wall and alone 
free from other trees (as in a Garden at Battherfey , which fometimesa^oc belon- 
ged to Matter Morgan, Apothecary to the late Qutcne Elizabeth ofhmous me- 
mory) to! be a very great and tall tree, exceeding any Apple tree in height , and equall 
in bignefle of body thereunto (as my fel.fe can teftifie , being ari eye witoefle thereof) 
when as it had many (hikes of flowers, being in the bud , breaking out of the body of 
the tree throug h the ba kem diuers places, when as there was no bough orbranchiicar 
them by a yard at the lead, or yet any leafe vponthetree, which they gatherer to put 
among other flowers, for Nofegayes) and in otherplaces.it growah to bee Lut ati 
hedge bulb, or plant , with many fuckers and Ihoores from belowe , coucred with a 
darke red.l.ili barke , the young branches being more red or purplrfli : the flowers on 
the branches come forth before any flrew or budding of leaucs, three or fouieftan- 
‘hig together vpon a fmall foote-ftalkc, which are in falbion lrke vnto Pcale blof- 
lomesbutof an excellent deepcpurplillicrimfon colour: after which cotnein their 
places fo many long, flat, large, and thihne cods, of abrownifli colour, wherein are 
contained fma!l,blackifh browne, flat, and hard feede .-.the route is great , and run- 
neth both deepe, and farre fpreading in the earth : thcleauescome forth by them- 
felues, euery one (landing on a long (hike, being hard & very round, like vnto the leafe 
of the largcfi Afumm, but not fo thick, of a whitifh green on the vpper fide and «ray ilia 
vnderneath , which fall away eueryyeare, and fpring a frell) after the Spring is well 
come in, and the buds of flowers are fprung. 
There is another of this kinde , growing in fome places very high , fomewhar like vlmolU 
the former, and in other places alfo full of twiggy branches, which are greener then 
the former, as the leaues are likewife : the flowers of this kinde are wholly white and 
the cods nothing fo red or browne, in all other things agreeing together. 
The Place. 
The former groweth plentifully in many places of Spaine, Italy Pro- 
uence in France , and in many other places. The other hath beene fent vs 
out of Italy many times, and the feede hath fprung very well with vs, but it 
lsfomcwhat tender to keepe in the Winter. 
The Time. 
The flowers (as I faid)appeare before the leaues, and come forth in A- 
prill and May, and often fooneralfo, the leaues following (hottly after- 
but neither of them bcareth perfetf feedein our Country, that euer I could 
learnc, or know by mine owne or others experience. 
, The Names. 
Some would referre this to Cw«, whereof Theophraftus maketh men- 
tion in his firft Booke and eighteenth Chapter, among thofe trees that beare 
their fruit in cods , like as Pulfedoerand heeremembrethitagaineinthe 
fourteenth Chapter of his third Booke , and maketh it not vnlikethe white 
Oo j Poplar 
