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circle as with a garland, the headsof the lining, and to fticke and decke forth 
the bodies of the dead : fo that from the cradleto the graue we haue ftill vfc 
of it, we haue ftill neede of it. 
The berries likewifeferue for ftitchcs inward, and for paines outward, 
that come of cold eyther in the ioynts, finewes,or other places. 
i.Liurea Ccraf turfite Lturm Virginia»* . The Virginian Bay, 
or Cherry Baye. 
T His Virginian (whether you will call it a Baye, ora Cherrie, ora Cherrie Bay, 
Ilcauc it to cuery ones free will and iudgement, but yet I thinke I may as well 
call it a Bay as others a Cherrie, neither of them being anfwerable to the tree, 
which neyther beareth fuch berries as are like Cherries, neither beareth euer greene 
leaues like the Bay : if it may therefore bee called the Virginia Cherry Bay, for a di- 
ftindlion from the former Bay Cherry that beareth fairc blacke Cherries, it will more 
fitly agree thereunto, vntill a more proper may be impofed) rifeth vp to be a tree of a 
reafonable height, the ftemme or bodie thereof being almoft as great as a mans Iegge, 
fpreading forth into, diuers armes or boughes, and they againe into diuers fmall bran- 
ches, whereon arefetwithout order diuers faire broade greene leaues, fomewhatlike 
vnto rhe former Bay leaues, but more limber and gent le, and not fo hard in handling, 
broader alfo, and for the moft part ending in a point, but in many fomewhat round 
pointed, very finely notched or toothed about the edges, of a bitter tafte, very neere 
refembling the tafte of the Bay leafc,but oflittle or nofent at all, either greene ordry- 
ed, which fall away euery autumne, andfpringafrelheucryyeare : the bloffomes are 
fmall and white, many growing together vpon along ftalkc, fomewhat like the Bird 
Cherry bloftomes, butfmaller, and come forth at the ends of the young branches, 
which after turne into fmall berries, euery one fet in a fmall cup or huske, greene at the 
firft, and blacke whenthey are ripe, of the bignefle of a fmall pea fe, of a ftrong bitter 
tafte, and fomewhat aromaticall withall,but without any fiefliy fubftancelilcaCherry 
at all vpon it ; for it is altogether like a berry. 
TheVfeof this Virginia Cherry Bay. 
Being a ftrangcrin our Land, andpoflfefledbutof a very few, Idoenot 
hearethattherehathbeeneanytriall made thereof what properties are irs 
it : let this therefore fuffice for this prefent,tohaue (hewed you the deferip- 
tion and forme thereof, vntill we can learne further of his vfes. 
3 .Pious. The Pine tree. 
M Y purpofe in this place is not to (hew you all the diuerfities of Pine trees, or 
of the reft that follow, but of that onekinde is planted in many places of our 
Land for ornament and delight, and there doth reafonably well abide : take 
it therefore into this Orchard,for the raritie and beautic of it, though we haue little o- 
thervfeof it. 
The Pine tree groweth with vs, though (Iowely, to a very great height in many 
places, with a great ftraight bodie, couered with a grayilh greene barke, the younger 
branches are fet round about, with very narrow long whiti(h greene leaues, which fall 
away from the eider, but abide on the younger, beingboth winter and fummeral- 
waics greene. It hath growing in fundry places on the branches, certaine great hard 
wooddy clogs (called of fome apples,of others nuts) compofed of many hard wood- 
dy feales, or tuberous knobs, which abide for the moft part alwaies greene in our 
Countrey, and hardly become browni(h,as in other Countries,where they haue more 
heat and comfort of the Sun, and where the feales open themfelues ; wherein are con- 
tained white long and round kernels, very fweete while they arefrelh, butquickely 
growing oy lely and rancide. 
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