J474- Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Li B. 3 . 
all can be gathered : for he in intreateth not of the forms of trees, but of the graffing of diuers into 
others, vnlike and differing in nature ; as of the graffing of the Nut tree into the Strawberry tree - 
the Apple into the Plane tree, the Beech into the Cheftnut tree • the Peareinto thewilde Afh 
or Quick-beame tree, the Okp into the Elme tree : and ia this refpe&hee writeth, that the Plane 
tree Dringeth forth an Apple, the Beech tree a Cheftnut -the wilde Afh tree bringeth forth the 
white floure of the Peare tree, as is mod manifeftoutof Virgils owne words, after this manner 
in the fecondbooke of his Georgicks : 
Infer itttr vero ex fietti mete Arbutus horridtt t 
Et Jleriles Vlutani mdos geffere v dentes, 
Ca[l tinea Fttgos : Ornus tncanuit ttlbo 
Flore Pjrfglandemque fuesjregere Jub VlmU, 
The Tree- Stravvb’ry on Walnuts ftocke doth grow, 
And barren Planes faire Apples oft haue borne ; 
Cheftnuts, Beech- Mart • the Quicken tree doth fhew 
The Peares white floure ; and twine oft times th’ Acom 
Haue gathered vnder Elmes. • ■ 
Chap. iii. Of Qoriars Sumucb, 
«[ The Defcriptm? 1 > 
I /”> Oriars Sumach groweth vp vnto the height of a hedge tree, after the manner of the 
Flder tree, bigger than Diofcorides reporteth it to be, or others, who affirme that Rhm 
groweth two cubits high : whofe errors are the greater ; but this Rhus is fo like to the 
Seruice 
I Rhus Cor'urid 
Coriar Sumach. 
2 Rhus UMyrtiftlid 
Wilde or Myrtle Sumachi 
