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x "TTHe manured Medlar tree is not great, the body whereof is writhed , the boughes hard, 
* not ea lie to be broken: the leaues be longer, yet narrower than thofe of the app] e tree, 
darke,greeneabotie,and fomewhat whiter and hairy below : the floures are white and great,hauing 
fine leaues a piece: the fruit is final 1, round, and hath a broad compared nauell or crowne at the 
top : the pulpe or meat is at the firft white, and fo harfh or choking, that it cannot be eaten before 
it become foftjin which are contained flue feeds or ftones,which be flat and hard. 
$ 2 There is another which differcth from the laft deferibed, in that the leaues are longer 
and narrower, the ftocke hath no prickles vpon it : the fruit alfo is larger and better taftediin other 
refpe&s it is like to the laft deferibed. This is the Mejpiluajructufreftantioreoi Tragua } and Mejfrilui 
Domcjlicaof Lobcl. $ 
3 J The Neapolitane Medlar tree groweth to the height and greatnefle of an Apple tree,hauing 
many tough and hard boughes or branches/et with fharp thornes like the white Thorne, or Haw- 
thorne : the leaues are very much cut or tagged like the Hawthorne leaues, but greater, and more 
like SmallageorParfley,which leaues before they fal from thetreedowaxred-.among thefe leaues 
come forth great tufts of floures ofa pale herby co!our:which being paft, there fucceed fmall long 
fruit, Iefler than the fmalleft Medlar,which at the firft are bard, and greene of colour, but when they 
be ripe, they are both foft and red, of a fweet and pleafant tafte : wherein is contained three fmall 
hard (tones, as in the former, which be the kernels ot feeds thereof. 
3 Metyilus Aroma. ^ 4 cham&meftilua . 
The Neapolitane Medlar. Dwarfe Medlar. 
4 There is a dwarfe kinde of Medlar growing naturally vpon the Alpes, and hils of Narbone, 
and on the rocks ot' Mount Baldusnigh Verona, which hath been by fomeof thebeft learned eftee- 
med for a kindeof Medlar : others, whofe iudgements cannot (land with truth or probability, haue 
fuppofed it to beH»fl*yw«f,oftlic Alpes: thisdwarfe Medlar groweth likea fm'all hedge tree, of 
four or flue cubits high, bearing many fmaltwiggie wands or crops, befet with many (lender leaues 
green aboue,and ofaskie colour vnderneath, in (hew like to a dwarfe Apple tree, but the fruit is 
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