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three fee together, couered with adouble fliell, that is to fay, with a greene thicke and 
foft outer rinde,and an inner hard fliell , within which the white kernell is contained 
couered with a thinncyellow rinde or peeling, which is more eafily peeled away 
while it is greene then afterwards, and is as it were parted into foure quarters , with a 
thinne wooddy pecce parting it at the head, very fwcete and plcafant while it is frcfli, 
and for a whileafter thegathering ; but the elder they growe, the harder and more 
oily : the catkins or blowings are long and yellow, made of many fcaly leaues fet clofe 
together, Which come forth early in theSpring,and when they open and fall away vp- 
on their ftalkes arife certaine fmall flowers, which turne into fo many nuts. ’ 
The Vfe of Wallnuts. 
They are often ferued to the table with other fruits while they abide 
frefh and fweete ; and therefore many to kcepe them frefh a long time haue 
deuifed many wayes, as to put them into great pots, and bury them in the 
ground, and fotakethem out as tbeyfpend them, which is a very good 
way, and will keepethem long. 
The fmall young nuts whilethey are tender, being preferued or candid, 
are vfed among other forts of candid fruits, that ferue at banquets. 
The iuyceofthe outer greene huskes are held to beafoueraigneremedy 
againft either poyfon, or plague, or pcflilcntiall feuer. 
The diftilled water of the huskes drunke with a little vinegar, if the fits 
growe hot and tedious, is an approued remedy for the fame. 
The waterdiftilled from the leaues, is cffedtuall to be applyed to fluent 
or running vlcers, to dry and binde thehumours. 
Some haue vfed the pouder of the catkins in white wine, forthefuffoca- 
tion or ftrangling of the mother. 
TheoyleofWallnuts is vfed to varnilh Ioyners workes. As alfois ac- 
counted farre to excell Linfeedcoyle, to mixea white colour withall , that 
thecolourbeenot dimmed. It is of excellent vfeforthccoldnefTe, hard- 
neffe and contradfing ofchc fine wes and ioynts,to warme, fun pie, and to 
extend them. 
Chap. XXIII. 
attune* Equina. The Horfe Chefnut» 
A Lthough the ordinary Chefnutis not a tree planted in Orchards, but left to 
Woods, Parkes , and other fuch like places j yet wee haue another fort which 
wee haue nourfedvp from the nuts fent vsfromTurky, ofa greater and more 
pleafant afpedt for the faire leaues, and of as good vfe for the fruit. It gro weth in time 
to be a great tree, fpreading with great armes and branches, whereon are fet at feuerall 
diftanccsgoodlyfairegreatgreeneleaues, diuided into fix, feuen, or nine parts or 
leaues, euery one of them nicked about the edges, very like vnto the leaues of Ricnut, 
or Palm a chritti , and almoft as great: it beareth at the ends of the branches many flow- 
ers fer together vpon a long ftalke, confifting of foure white leaues a peece, with many 
threads in the middle, which afterwards turne into nuts , like vnto the ordinary Chef- 
nuts,but fet in rougher and more prickly huskes : the nuts themfelues being rounder 
and blacker, with a white fpot at the head of each, formed fomewhac like an heart, and 
of a little Tweeter tafte. 
The Vfe of this Chefnut. 
It ferueth to binde and flop any maner of fluxe, belt ofbloud or humours, 
either of the belly or ftonaacke; as alfo the much {pitting of bloud.Thcy arc 
roafted and eaten as the ordinary fort, to make them tafte the better. 
They are vfually in Turkie giuento horfes in their prouender, to cure 
them of coughes, and helpe them being broken winded. 
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