Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
L I B. 2. 
vpon fhort ferns or foot ftalks,c!uftering together in bunches : which being fallen, there do come 
in place fibre and goodly apples^ chamfered,vneuen, and bunched out in many places ; of a bright 
fhiningred colour, and the bigneffeofa goofeeggeor a) large pippin. The pulpeor meat is verie 
full of moifture, foft, reddifh, and of the fubftanceofa wheat plumme.The feed is final), flat and 
tough: thero'otfmallandthreddie : the whole Plant is of arankeand ftinking fauour. 
There hath happened vnto my hands another fort, agreeing very notably with the former, as 
well in leaues and ftalkes as a!fo in Homes and roots, onely the fruit heteofvvas yellow of colour, 
wherein confifted the difference. 
PomaAmoris. he Place. 
Apples of Loue. 
A 
B 
Apples of Loue grow in Spaine, Italic, and 
fuch hot Countries, from whence my felfe haue 
receiued feeds for my garden jWhere they do in- 
creafe and profper. 
•y The Time. 
It isfownein the beginning of Aprill ina 
bed of hot horfe dung, after themaner of musk 
Melons and fuch like cold fruits. 
The T^rmes. 
The Apple of Loue is called in Latine Vo- 
mum Aursum, Pomet Amor is, and Lycoperficum of 
forne, Glaucium : in Englilh, Apples of Loue, 
and Golden App!es:in French , Pommes d’amotirs. 
Howbeit there be other golden Apples whereof 
the Poets doe fable, growing in the Gardens of 
the daughters of Hejperus,which a Dragon was 
appointed to keepc,who,as they fable, was killed 
by Hercules. 
The Temperature. 
The Golden Apple, with the whole herbe it 
felfe is cold, yet not fully fo cold as Mandrake, , 
after the opinion of Dodonaus.hat in my iudge- 
mentit is very cold, yea perhaps in the higheft 
degree of coldnefleimy reafon is,becaufe I haue 
in the hotteft time of Sommer cut away the fu- 
perfluous branches from the mother root, and . 
calf them away carelelly in the allies of my gar- 
den, the which (notwithlfanding the extreme heat of the Sun,thehardnefieofthe trodden allies, 
and at that time when no taine at all did fall) hauegrovvne as frefh where I caft them, as before I 
did cut them off; which argueth the great coldnelTe contained therein. True it is,that it doth ar- 
gue alfoagreat moifture wherewith the plant is po(Teffed,but as I haue faid,not without great 
cold,vvhich I Ieaue to cuery mans cenfure. 
%The Vertues. 
InSpaineandthofehot Regions they vfe toeat the Apples prepared and boiled with pepper, , 
fait, and oile : but they yeeldvety little nourifhment to the bodie, and the fame nought and cor- 
rupt. 
Likewife they doe eat the Apples with oile, vineger and pepper mixed together forfauce to 
their meat,euen as we in thefe coid Countries doe Muftard. 
Chap.' 6 r. Of the /Ethiopian ctA pple. 
The Defcription. 
nr 1 He Apple of .Ethiopia hath large leaues of a whitifhgreene colour, deepely indented about !j 
^ the edges, almoft to the middle rib : the which middle rib is armed with a few (harpepric- ■ 
kies. The Homes be white, confifting of fix fma! leaues, with a certain yellow pointel in the midft. 
The. 
