The Orchard. 
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The greene prickly Goofeberry is very like vnto the ordinary Goofcberry in 
ftemme and branches , but that they are not ftored with Co many fharpe prickles ; but 
theyoung fhootes are more plentifull in fmall prickles about, and the greeneleafeisa 
little fmaller : the flowers are alike, and To are the berries, being of a middle fize , and 
not very great, greene when they are thorough ripe as well as before, but mellower, 
and hauing a few fmall fhort prickles, like fmall (hort haires vpon them, which are 
harmlefle, and without danger to anie the moft dainty and tender palate that is , and 
of a veriegoodpleafanttafte. The feede hereof hath produced bufhes bearing ber- 
ries, hauing few or no prickles vpon them. 
The Vfeof Goofeberries. 
The berries of the ordinary Goofeberries, while they are fmall, greene, 
and hard, are much vfed to bee boy led or fealded to make fawce , both for 
fifh and flefh of diuers forts, for the ficke fometimes as well as the found, as 
alfo before they be neere ripe, to bake into tarts, or otherwife, after manie 
fafhions, as the cunning of the Cooke, orthepleafureof hiscommanders 
willappoint. Theyarcafitdifh for women with childe to flay their long- 
ings, and to procure an appetite vnto meate. 
Theotherfortsarenot vfed in Cookery that I know , but ferue to bee 
eaten at pleafure ; but in regard they are not fo tart before maturity as the 
former, they are not put to thofe vfes they be. 
Chap. I III. 
Oxy&untha, fei pitim Eerk‘ru. Barberries. 
T He Barberry bulhgrdwcth oftentimes with very high ftemmes, almoft two 
mens height, but vfually fomewhat lower, with manic Ihootes from the roote, 
couered with a whitifh rindc or barke,and yellow vnderneath , the wood be- 
ing white and pithy in the middle : the leaues are fmall,long, and very greene, nicked 
or finely dented about the edges, with three fmall white lharpe thornes, for the mod 
part fet together at the fetting on of the leaues : the flowers doe growe vpon long clu- 
ttering ftalkes, fmall, round, and yellow , fwcete in fmell while they arc frefli , which 
turnc into fmaII,long, and round berries, white at the fir ft, and very red when they are 
ripe, ofafharpe fowretafte, fitto fet their teeth on edge that eate them : the roote is 
yellow, fpreading far vndcr the vpper part of theground, but not very deepe. 
There is (as it is thought) another kindc, whofe berries are thrice as bigge as the 
former, which I confefle I haue not feene, and know not whether it be true or no : for 
it may peraduenture be but the fame, the goodnefTe of the ground and ayre where they 
growe, and the youngnefle of the bulhes caufing that largenefTe, as I haue obferued in 
the fame kinde, to yeeld greater berries. 
There is faid to be alfo another kinde, whofe berries (hould be without ftones or 
feede within them, not differing elfc in anie thing from the former : but becaufe I 
haue long heard of it, and cannot vnderftand by all the inquiric I haue made , that 
any hath feene fuch a fruit, I reft doubtfull of it. 
T he Vfe of Barberries; 
Some doe vfe the leaues of Barberries in the fteadqf Sorrell, tsmake 
fawee for meate, and by reafon of their fowrenefle are of the fame quality. 
Theberries are vfed tobe pickled, to ferue totrimme or fet out difhes of 
fifti and flefh in broth, or otherwife, as alfofometiraetobeeboyledinthc 
broth, to giue it a fharpe rellifh, and many other wayes, as a Mafter Cooke 
can better tell then my felfc; 
The 
