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The Orchard. 
TheVfeof Cherries. 
All thefe forts of Cherries ferue wholly to pleafe the palate, and are eaten 
at all times, both before and after meales. 
All Cherries ate cold, yet the fower inorethen thefweete .and although 
the fweete doe mod pleafe, yet the fower are more wholfome, if there bee 
regard taken in the vfing. 
The Agriot or fower Cherries are in France much vfed to bee dryed (as 
is faid before)asPruinesarc,and fo ferue to miniftred to be the tick in ail hot 
difeafes,asfeuers&c. being both boy led in their drinkes, andtakennow 
and then ofthemfelues, which by reafon of their tartneffe, doe pleafe the 
(tomacke palling well. 
TheGumof the Cherrie tree is commended to bee good for thofe are 
troubled with the grauell or (lone. Itisalfogood for the cough being dif- 
folued in liqueur, and (lirreth vp an appetite. The diddled water of the 
blacke Cherries, the (tones being broken among them, is vfed for the fame 
purpofe, for the grauell, (lone, and winde. 
Here are many more varieties of Plummes then of Cherries, fo that I muft 
follow thefame order with thefe that I did with them, cuengiue you their 
names apart, with briefe notes vpon them, and one deferi prion to ferue forall 
the reft. And in this.recitall I (hall lcaue out the Apricockes which are certainly a kind 
of Plum, of an efpcciall difference, and not of a Peach, as Galen and fome others haue 
thought, and fet them in a chapter by themfelues, and only in this fet down thofe fruits 
are vfually called Plums. 
The Plum tree fefpecially diuers of them) rifeth in timeto bee a reafonable tall and 
greattree, whofe bodie and greater armes are couered with a more rugged barke, yet 
in fome more or leffe, theyounger branches being fmoorh in all, the leaues arc fome- 
what rounder then thofe ofthe Cherrie tree, and much differing among rhemfelues, 
fome being longer, or larger,or rounder then others,and many that are cxercifed here- 
in, can tell by the leafe what Plum the tree bcareth (I fpeake this of many , not of all)as 
in many Cherries they can doe the like : the flowers are white, confiding of flue 
leaues: the fruit is as variable in forme, as in tafte or colour, fome being ovall.oi P eare 
faff ion or Almond like, or fphericall or round, fome firmc, fome foftand wateriff, 
fome fweete, fome fower or harfli, or differing from all thefe taftes : and fome white, 
others blacke, fome red, others yellow, fome purple, others blew, as they (hall bee 
briefly fet downe vnto you in the following lines, where I meane not to infert any the 
wilde or hedge fruit, bur thofe only are fit for an Orchard, ro be ftored with good fruit: 
and of all which forts, thechoyfeftforgoodncffe, and rareft for knowledge, areto 
be bad of my very good friend Mafterlohn Tradefcante, w ho hath wonderfully la- 
boured to obtaineall the rareft fruits hcc can heareoff in any place of Chriftendome, 
Turky,yeaorthewholeworld ; as alfo with Mailer IohnMillen, dwelling in Olde 
ftreete,who from IohnT radefcante and all others that haue had good fruit, hath ftored 
himfelfe withthebeft only, and he can fufficiently furnilh any. 
The Amber Primordian Plumme is an indifferent faire Plummc, early ripe,ofa pale 
yellowift] colour,and of a waterifh tafte, not pleafing. 
The red Primordian Plumme is of a reafonable (ize, lpng and round, redd iff on 
the outfide, of a more dry tafte, and ripe with the firft forts in the beginning of Au- 
guft. 
The blew Primordian is a fmall plumme, almoft like the Damafccne, and is fubiedt 
to drop off from the tree before it be ripe. 
The white Date Plum is no very good plum. 
Chap. XIII. 
Prunus. The Plumme tree. 
The 
