144° Of the Hi ft or y of Plants. Lib. 3. 
Thefc Nuts that haue their skinnes red are the garden and planted Nuts, and the right Pontick 
Nuts or Filberds : they are called in high-DutchLtjUMlUf?, and KottlUf? : in low- Dutch Kontte 
paCcl I^OtCtl : inEnglifh, Filberds, and red Filberds, 
The other Nuts which be white are iudged tobevvilde. 
T heT emf nature andVertues. 
A Hafell Nuts newly gathered, and not as yet dry, contained thema certaine fuperfluous moi- 
fture,by reafon whereof they are windie: not onely the new gathered Nuts, but the dry alfo, be very 
hard ofdigeftion * for they are of an earthy and cold e(Tence,and of an hard and found fubftance 
for which caufe alfo they very flovvly pafle thorow the belly, therefore they are troublefome and 
clogging to the ftomacke, caufe head-ache, efpecially when they be eaten in' too great a quantitie 
B The kernellsof Nuts made into milke like Almonds do mightily bind the belly, and are aoodi 
for the laske and thebloudy flix. 5 
C The fame doth coole exceedingly in hot feuers and burning agues. 
D The catkins are cold and dry, and likewife binding : they alfo ftay the Iask. 
E t The kernels of Nuts rather caufe than cure thebloudy flix and lasks’,wherefore they are not 
to be vfed in fuch difeafes. f 1 
Chap. <?o. Of the IVaU'MU tree. 
Nux Iuglans. 
The Walnut tree. 
The Defcription, 
'J 1 His is a great tree with athicke and tall 
body : the barke is fomewhatgreene,and 
tending to the colour of afhes, and oftentimes 
full of clefts : the boughes fpread themfelues 
far abroad : the leaues con ft ft of fiue or fix fan- 
ned to one rib, like thofe of the Afhtree, and 
with one ftanding on the top, which be broa- 
der and longer than the particular leaues of 
the AlTi, fmoorh alfo, and of a ftrong fmell: 
the catkins or aglets come forth before the 
Nuts : thefe Nuts do grow hard totheftalke 
of the leaues, by couples, or by three & three; 
which at the firftwhen they be yet but tender 
haue a fweet fmel,and be couered with a green 
huske : vnder that is a wooddyfhell in which 
the kernel! is contained, being couered with a 
thin skin, parted almoft into foure parts with 
a woody skin as it were: the inner pulp where- 
of is white, fweet and pleafant to the taft ; and 
that iswhenitis new gathered, for after "it is 
dry it becommethoily and ranck. 
The Place. 
The Walnut tree groweth infields neere 
common high-wayes , in a fat and fruitfull 
ground, and in orchards : itprofpereth on high 
fruitfull bankes,it loueth not to grow in wate- 
rie places. 
, TbeTime. 
^u^ne leaues together with the catkins come forth in the Spring : the Nuts are gathered in Au- 
^ The Names. 
Ca !‘C' n Greeke, K " p " a : * n Latine, A T «,v, which name doth fignifieboth the tree and 
Neiher • in'snanifl v^’ I°w-Dutch, |i00teb00me, and jftOOteUler : in French, 
‘ r. \ No ^ r f ; ln Enghlh, Walnut tree, and offome,WaIfh nut tree. The Nut is 
ree -e, K “>"” E ^wr, that is to fay, Nux Regia, or the Kingly Nut : it is likewife named 
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