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The Orchard. 
The Peach dv Troas is a long and great whitifli yellow Peach. redontheoutfidc 
early ripe,and is an other kinde of N utracg Peach . * 
The Queenes Peach is a faire great y cllo wifh b’rowne Peach, fhadowed as it were 
ouer with deepe red, and is ripe at Bartholmew tide, ofa very pleafant good taft c 
The Romane Peach is a very good Peach, and well relliflied. 
The Durafrac orSpanifhPeachisofadarkeyellowilh red colour on theoutfide 
and white within. uc » 
Theblacke Peach is a great large Peach, ofa very darkebrowne colour on the out- 
fide, it is of a waterilh tafte, and late ripe. 
The Alberza Peach is late ripe, and of a reafonable good tafte. 
The Almond Peach,fo called, becaufe the kernell of the ftoneis fweete like the A f 
mond, and the fruit alfofomewhatpointed like the Almond in thehuske .itiseaVl J 
ripe, and like the Newington Peach, but leffer. 3 tar ^ 
The Man Peach is of two forts, the one longer then the other, both ofthetn are good 
Peaches, but the fhorter is the better rellilhed. rc g°oa 
The Cherry Peach is a fmall Peach, but well tafted. 
The Nutmeg Peach is of two forts, one that will be hard when it isripe,and eaterh 
not fopleafantly as the other, which will bee foft and mellow . they are both S 
Peaches, hauing very little or no refemblance at all to a Nutmeg, except in bcS 
Iittlelongerthenround,andareearly ripe. 6 ‘ noeinga 
Many other forts of Peachesthere are, whereunto wee can giuc no cfpeciall name 
and therefore I paffe them ouer mfilence. r w ne > 
The Vfeof Peaches. 
Th®fe Peaches thatare very moiftand waterilh (as many of them are) 
and not firtne, doefoonc putrefie in the ftomackc, caufin|f ur f e irs often- 
times 5 and therefore eueiy one had neede bee carefull what and in what 
The leaues,bccaufe of their bitternefte, feruewell being bovledin Ale 
orMiUce, to be giucn vnto children that haue wormes , to help tokill thorn 
and doe gently open the belly, ifthere be a fufficient quantity vfed. ^ 
The flowers hane the like operation, that is, to purge the body fomewhat 
re orc ™ a ‘* c 
The kernels oif the Peach ftones are oftentimes vfed to be giuen to them 
hat cannot well make water, or are troubled with the ftone . for it opened 
theftoppings oftbe vntory paflages, whereby much eafeenfueth P 
Chap. XVI. 
Nucipirfic*. Nedlorins. 
I Prefume that the name Nnciptrficn doth moft rightly belong vntn i-w r e 
Peach, which wecall Nedorins, and although they haue been! with ° P 
y eares, yet haue they beene knownc both in Italy to Mothiolus" and^tLrc 
him, who it feemeth knew no other then theyellowVdforin a Daleiamnk^J?^ 
But weat this day doc know fine feuerall forts of Nedlorins as thwS beorrf™!?'' 
«ddiO,, „ Ac Pe.ch, but one of', 
you by and by : the fruit that follower!) is fmaller, rounder , and fmootber then P 17 
ches, without any cleft on the fide, and without any douny cotton or freeze at all fand 
herein 
