132.4 
Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. 
L j B.3. 
Chap. 2.2. 
Of (joojc-berrie, or Fcci'berry c Bu[b, 
The Kindes. 
T Hcre be diuers forts ofthe Goofe-berrics ; fome greater, others lelfe :fome round, others long, 
and fome of a red colour : the figure of one fhall ferue for the reft, 
t I will not much infill vpondiuerfities of fruits, becaufe my kinde friend M r . John Parkinfon 
hath fufficiently in his late VVotke difeourfed vpon that fubiedl ; onely becaufe I iudge many wil 
bedefitotis to know their names, and where to get them, I will briefely name thcchiefe varieties 
our Kingdome affords; and fuch as are defirous of them may finde them with M'. Iohn CMilltn li- 
lting in Old-ftreet. 
The forts of Goofe-berries are thele : the long greene,the great yellowifh, the blew, the great 
round red, the long red, and the prickly Goofe-berrie. 
The Defcription. 
T Hc Goofc-berry bufh is n fhrub of three ! 
or foure cubits high,fet thicke with moll 
fharpe prickles : It is likewife full of 
branches, (lender, vvooddy, and prickly : where- 
on doe grow round leaues cut with deepe ga- • 
fhes into diners parts like thofe ofthe Vine, of , 
a very greene colour the floures be very filial, 
ofawhitilh greene, with fome little purple da- 
fhed here and there: the fruit is round, growing 
fcatteringly vpon the branches, greene at the 
firft, but waxing a little yellow through matu- 
ritie, full of awinie iuyee fomewhat fweet in 
• tafte when they be ripe ; in which is contained 
hard feed of a whitifh colour : the root is woo- 
die, and not without firings anexed thereto. 
There is another whofe fruit is almoft as big 
as afmall Chery, and very round in forme: as 
alfo another ofthe like bigneffe, of an inch in 
length, in tafte and fubllance agreeing with 
the common fort. 
We.haue alfo in our London gardens ano- 
ther fort altogether without prickles: whofe 
fruit is very final, lelferby much than thecotn- 
mon kinde, but of a perfeil red colour, wherein 
it differeth from the reft of his kinde. 
«ff The Place. 
Thefe plants do grow in our London gar- 
dens and elfewhere in great aboundance. 
The Time. 
The leaues come forth in the beginning of Aprill or fooner : the fruit is ripe in Iune and Iuly . 
% The Names. 
This fhrub had no name among the old Writers,whoas we deeme knew it not, orelfe efteemed 
it not : the later writers call it in Latine Crojfularia .- and oftentimes of the berries, Vua Griff a, Vua 
ft>ina, run Jfine/la, and Vua Crijfina : in high-Dutch,&CUfelbfCt 5 in low-Dutch, ^tChClbtQetl : in 
Spanifh, Vua Crijpa, or Effina : in Italian, Vua fpina : in French, Groifcllcs : in Eng!ifh,Goofe-berry, 
Goofe-berry bufh,and Fea-bcrry bufh in Chefliire, my natiuc countrey. 
The Temperature. 
The berries of tb is bufh before they be ripe are cold and dry,and that in the later end of the fe- 
cond degree, and alfo binding. 
^1 The Verities. 
The fruit is vfed in diners fauces for meate,as thofe that are skilfull in cookerie can better tel than 
my felfe. 
They 
