The Orchard. 
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The berries are preferucd and conferued to giue to ficke bodies, to hclpe 
to coole any heate in the ftomacke or mouth, and quicken the appetite . 
The depurate iuyce is a fine menftrueto dilfolue many things, and to ve- 
rie good purpofe, if it be cunningly handled by an Artift. 
Theyellow inner batkeof the branches, or of theroores,are vfedtobe 
boyled in Ale, or other drinkes , to be giuento thofethat haue theyellow 
iaundife : As alfo for them that haue anie fiuxes of choller,to helpeto ftav 
and binde. r * 
Clufiusfettethdowneafecretthathee had ofa friend, ofacleane diffe- 
ring prqpertie , which was, that if the yellow barfee were laid in fteepe in 
white wine for the; fpace of three houres, and after wards drur.ke it would 
purge one very wonderfully. 
Chat. V. 
Nhx The Filberd. 
T He Filberd treethat is planted in Orchards, is very like vnto the Hafell nut tree 
that groweth wilde in the woods, growing vpright, parted into many boughes 
and tough plyable twigges, without knots, couered with a brownifh, fpeckled 
fmooth, thinne rmdc ,’and greene vnderneath ; the leaucs are broad, large, wrinkled’ 
and full of veines, cur in on the edges into deepedents, but not into any gafhes of a 
darke greene colour on the vpperfi Je, and ofagrayifhafh colour vnderneath : it hath 
im all and long catkins in ftcad of flowers, that come forth in the Winter, when as they 
are firme and dofe , and in the Spring open themfelues fomewhatmore, growing 
longer , and ofa brownifh yellow colour : the nuts come not vpon thofe ftalkes that 
bore thofe catkins, but by themfelues , and are wholly inclofed in long, thicke, rough 
huskes, bearded as it were at thevpper ends, or cut into diuers long iagges, much 
morethenthe wood nut: thenuthathathinne and fomevvhat hard fhell butnotfo 
thicke and hard as the wood nut, in fomc longer then in other, and in the lone kinde 
one hath the skinne white that couereth the kernels, and another red. * 
Theie is another fort of the round kinde that came from Conftantinople, whole 
cl 1 1 m< i r C CUt ’ , tornc ’ or ‘ a gS ec ^5 both aboue and below e, then any of our country - 
the barke alfo is whiter, and more rugged then ours, and theleaues fomewhat larger/ 
We haue had from Virginia Hafell nuts, that haue beenefmaller, rounder, browner 
thinner (held and more pointed at the end then ours : I know not if any hath planted 
of them, or if they differ in leafe or any thing elfe. 
The Vfe of Filberds. 
Filberds are eaten as the beft kinde of Hafell nuts , at bankets among o- 
ther dainty fruits, according to the feafonof the yeare, or otherwife as 
euery one pleafe : But Maccr hath a Verfe, exprefling prettily the nature of 
thefe nuts, which is. 
Ex minima oacibm milt datur efca falnbris. 
that is , There is no wholfome food ornourifhmcnt had from thefe fmall 
kinde or nuts. 
Yet they are vfcdfometimephyfically to be rolled, and made into a Lo- 
hoc or Eleduary , that is vfed for the cough or cold. And it is thought of 
fome that Mithridates meant the kernels of thefe nuts, to be vfed with Figs 
and Rue for his Antidote, and not of Walnuts. 
Chap. 
