Lib. 3. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 1455 
very like the Haw, or fruit of the white Thorne, and ofa red colour, t The floures come forrh in 
the Spring three or foure together, hollow, and of anherbie colour, it growes in diuers places of the 
Alpes : it is the C hamxmefjnltim of the Aduerf. and the Chamt/rtejpik u Gefheript Ctufii-s. f 
5J The Place. 
The Medla*trees do grow in Orchards, and oftentimes in hedges among Briars and Brambles- 
being grafred in a white Thorne it profpereth wondcrfull well, and bringeth forth fruit twife or 
thnfe bigger than thofe that are not grafted at all,almoft as great as little apples: ive haue diuers 
forts of them jn our Orchards. 
5 J The Time. 
It is very late before Medlars be ripe, which is in the end of October, but the floures come forth 
timely enough. 
e[ The Names. 
The find is called in Greeke by Theophrajlns *.«.■», ■. in Latme.ii/f/J/'te .- in high Dutch, 0cfp{ls 
Baum J in low Dutch, <$>fpelb00me : in French , Nefflier : in jEnglifh, Medlar tree. 
The Apple or fruit is named in Greeke, inLatine likewife, Mefpilum ■ in high Dutch, 
jftefpeldn l° vv Dutch, glptfpde : in Italian, .• in French, Neffie in Spanifh, Nejperar.in En- 
glilh, Medlar. 
Diofcorides affirmeth, that this Medlartree is called and of diuers, Sn anion : Galen alfo in 
his booke of the faculties of (imple medicines narneth this Eptmelu, which is called, as he faith, by 
the countrey men in Italy, Vtsedo, and groweth plentifully in Calabria ; forvnder the nameof Mefpi- 
Ins pi Medlar tree, he meanoth no other than Tricoccus, which is alfo named Aronia. 
The Neapolitane Medlar tree is called in Greeke p.'«.Avand /»'««»*, Galen calleth it Efimelit. 
The fruit hereof is called T ncoccospi the three graines or (tones that it hath:they of Naples call 
\te^ 4 \arolo : and we may nameitin Englifli, three graine Medlar, orNeapolitane Mediator Med- 
lar of Naples. 
51 The Temperature. 
The Medlars are co!d,drie,andaftringent ; the leaues are of the fame nature : the dwatfe Medlar 
is dry,(harpe,and aftringent. 
5f The Venue's. 
Medlars do flop the belly, efpecialty when they be greenpand hard, for after that they hauebeen A 
kept a while, fo that they become foft and tender, they doenotbinde or flop fo much, but are then 
more fit to be eaten. 
The fruit of the three grain Medlar, is eaten both raw and boiled, and is more wholefome for the B 
ftomacke. 
Thefe Medlars be oftentimes preferued with fugar ot hony :and being fo prepared they are plea- C 
fant and delightftill to the tafte. 
Moreouer,they are lingular good forwomenwithchilde: for they ftrengthen the ftomacke, and D 
flay the lothfomnefle thereof. 
The ftones or kernels of the Medlars, made into pouder and drunke, doebreake the ftone,expell p 
grauell,and procure vrinc. 
Chap. $9. Of the Teare tree . 
5 [ The Defcription. 
nr O write of Peares and Apples in particular, would require a particular voteme : the ftocke or 
kindred ofPeares are not to be numbredieuery country bath his peculiar fruinmy fclfe knows 
one curious in grafting and planting of fruits, who hath in one piece of ground, at the point ofthree 
fcore fundry forts of Peares, and thofe exceeding good, not doubting but if his minde had been to 
feeke after multitudes, he might haue gotten together the like number of thofe of worfekindsibe- 
fidesthediuer(itiesofthofcthatbewilde,experiencclhewethfundryforts: and thereforel thinke 
it notamiffe tofet downe the figures of fomefew with their feuerall titled, as well in Latineas En- 
glilh.and one generalldefcription for that, that might be faid of many, which to deferibe apart, 
were to fetid an owle to Athens, or to number thofe things that are without number. 
t Our Author in this chapter gaue eight figures with fcueral! titles to them.fo I pluckta peare 
from each tree, and put his title to it, but not in the fame order that he obferued, for hee made the 
Katherine peare tree the feu'enth, which I haue now made the firft, becaufe the figure expreffes the 
whole tree, p qpTbc 
