Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
H47 
Lib. 3. 
Per fie a 4 Perfica lutea, or the yellow Peach tree, is 
The white Peach. likevnto the former in leaues and fk>ures:his 
fruit is of a yellow colour on the outfide,and 
likevvife on the in(ide,harder than the reft j in 
the middle of the Peach is awooddy, hard, and 
rough ftone, full of crefts and gutters, in which 
dothlieakernell much like to that of the Al- 
mond, and with fitch a like skin : the fubftance 
within is white, and in tafte (omething bitter. 
The fruit hereof is of greateft pleafure,and bell: 
tafte of all the other of'his kinde ; although there 
be found at this day diuers other forts tip! t are 
of very good tafte, not remembred of theanci- 
ent,or fet downe by the later writers, whereof to 
fpeake particularly, would no: be greatly to our 
pretended purpofe, confidering we haften to an 
end. 
4 5 There isalfokept in fome of our choife 
gardens a kind of Peach which hath a very dou- 
ble and beautiful floure,but it is feldome fuccee- 
ded by any fruit ; they call this ^Perfica florcpleno , 
The double bloffomed Peach. 4 
ejj T he Place. 
They are fet and planted in gardens and vine- 
yards : I haue them all in my garden, with many 
other forts. 
«[f The Time. 
The Peach tree foone cosnmeth vp : it blares 
fruit the third or fourth yeere after it is planted, 
and it foone decaieth , and is not of long conti- 
nuance J it floureth in April!, or a little while after that the leaues appeare, and hath his fruit ripe 
in September. 
^ The Names. 
The Peach tree is called in Greeke, in Latinc, cJt talus Per licit P eijica : in high 
Dutch, I^ecOfC^bOUin : in low Dutch, JfKtftl bOQlU : in French, Perfcher . in Englifh, Peach Pee. 
The truit,as Galen tefti'fieth,is named /<•«' and ™W»alfo without any addition : in La tine. 
Malum Pcrficumfindt Per [team ■ in high Dutch, ^fctftttg : in low Dutch, ^Etfcn : in Italy, Pijche 
in Spani{h } Pcxegos ■■ in French , Pifchcs ■■ in Englifh, Peach. 
^ The Temperature and Fertile!. 
Peaches be cold and moift, and that in the fecond degree, they haue a juice and alfo a fub ftance A 
that doth eafily putrifie, which yeeldeth nonourifbment,but bringeth hurt, efpecially if they be 
eaten after other meates - forthen they caufe the other mcates to putrifie. But they are lefle hurt- 
full if they be taken firft ; for by reafon that they arc moift and flippery, they eafily and quickly 
defeend ■ and by making the belly flippery, they caufe other meates to flip downe the looner. 
The kernels of the Peaches be hot and dry, they open and clenfc • they are good for the flop- 3 
pings of the liner and fpleene. 
Peaches before they be ripe do flop the laske,but being ripe they loofe the belly, and ingender q 
naughty humors, for they are foone corrupted in the ftomacke. 
■ The leaues of the Peach tree do open the flopping of the litter, and do gently looien the belly : 
and being applied plaiftervvifevnto thenaitell of young children, they kill the wormes,anddriue 
diem forth. . . ... 
The fame leaues boiled in milke,dokill fhewOrmes In children very fpecdtly. 
The fame being dried, and caft vpon greene wounds, cure them. 
The floures of the Peach tree infufed in warme water for the fpace cf ten or twelue homes, and 
drained, arid more floures put to thefaid liquor to infufe after the fame manner, and fo iterated 
lix or eight times, and drained again,thenasmuchfugaras it will require added tothe fame liquor 
and boiled vnto the confiftenceor thickn.es of a fyrrup, and two fpoonefulls hereof takcn,doth lo 
finmilarly wel 1 nurse the belly, that there is neither Rubatbe, Agancke,nor any other purger com- 
parable vnto it ; for this purgeth downe watcrifh humors mightily, and yet without griefe or 
trouble, either to the ftomacke, or lower parts of the body. 
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