IB. 3. 
Of the Hiftoryof Plants. 
1449 
«f The Place. > 
Tbefe trees do grow in my garden, and now adaies in many ocher gentlemens 
out all England. 
ThcTirae, 
They floureand flourifh in Aprill,and their fruit is ripe inlulv. 
gardens through- 
*\ The Names. 
T his tree is called in Greekc 5 u»\(* spinn*** ; in Lacinc } Mains Armeniaca .* in E n ^ I i fh 3 Abrecockc 
tree 5 and Aprccocke tree. 
The fruit is natned m»a«ap#kw*««\, and of diners ©ep«>'xw«v, or bi^wiswof, which be words corrupted from 
the Latine ; for Pnscox in Larinc is diners times c.d led Prx'oquum it is named 'Malum <._A? menia- 
cum, and commonly Armemacum : it is called in high-Dutch, fl^OllCttCU gJ^oUelttt Sf.Tjohatlg 
#fctftng; : in low-Dutch,Htoege $erfen, aHuaiit fatten: in Italian, Arm mache, Bscocbe.Crifo- 
melc.Momache . in French, ibneoz, ■■ in h>pani\b,Aiuarcoqites,Ali<archi<ras,and Alhercccs : in Englilh 
Abrecockc, and offome. Aprecocke,and Aprccox. 
Galen feemeth to make a difference between ePrxcoeia and Armeniaca , in hisbookeof the Facul- 
ties ofnouri fh ments, preferring Prxcocia before Armeniaca ; yet he doth confeffe that both of them 
be called Armens aca : others pronounce them Armenia with foure fyllables. And in his booke of 
the faculties of fimple med icines he affirmeth, that both the fruit and the tree are called : 
diners of the larer Phyfitionsdobetween thefe alfo make a difference, faying, i hat the greater ones 
and thole that are grafted be Armeniaca ("which the French men call Auant Pcrfes) and the lelfer Prx- 
cocia : in French, Abricoz,. 
•If The Temperature and Venues. 
Aprecocks are cold and mo ill in the fecond degree, but vet not fo mo iff as Peaches, for which A' 
caufethey do not fo foone or eafily pntnfie ., and they are alfo more wholefome for the ftomacke 
and pleafant to the tafte ; yet do they 'ikewifeputrifie, and yeeld but little nourifhment, and the* 
fame cold, moift, and full ofexcruments : being taken after meate they corrupt and putrifiein the 
ftomacke ; being firft eaten before othermearc they ealily defeend, and cauft theother meates to 
pafle downe the fooner,like as alfo the Peache" do.' 
The kernell within the fame is fweet,and nothing at all like in facultie to that of the Pearfu 
The vertues of the leaues of this tree arc not as yet found out. 
Chap. 96. Of c Pomcg> anat tree. 
«[ The Kindcs. 
AS there be fundry forts oF Apples, Peares, Plums, and fuch like fruits; fo there are two forts 
of Pomegranates, the garden and thewilde,andathird ; r which is barren and fruitles : the 
fruit of the garden Pomegranat is of three forts ; one bailing a foure iuyee or liquour ; another ha- 
uing a very fweetand pleafant liquor, and the third thetaft.-of Wine :of the wildealfo there be 
two forts, and the difference betweene them is no more than betwixt crabs and weddings, which 
are bot h wilde kindes of Apples : therefore the defcription of the garden Pomegranat lhal fuifice 
for the reft. 
The Defcription. 
i f ~T~~ He manured Pomegranat tree groweth vp to the height of a hedge tree, being feuen or 
J[ eight cubits high, hauing many pliant and twiggy branches, very limber, tough, and 
of a browne colour : whereon are fet very many leaues in fhape like thofe of the Pri- 
uct, but more likcthofeofthe Myrtle tree, of a bright (Fining greene colour tending toyellow- 
nefle ramongft which there ftand certaine fharpe thornes confufedly fet, and likewife hollow 
Homes like vnto the hedge Rofe, indented on the edges like a ftarre,of a Carnation colour, and 
very fingle : afterwhich commeth the fruit, couered with a hard barke,of an ouervvorne purplifh 
colour, full of graines and kernels, which after they be ripe are of a gallant crimfon colour, and ful 
ofiuycc, which differeth in tafte according to the foile,clymat,and countrey where they grow; 
fome be fweet, others foure, and the third are in a middle betweene them both,hauins the tafte of 
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