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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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2 The Mirobalan Plum tree groweth to the height of a great merged with manvcTel 
armes or boughes which diuide themfelues into final! twiggy branches^ means wLeofkE 
deth a good !y and pleafant fliadovv : the trunke or body is couered with a finer and thinner bike 
than any of the other Plum trees : the leaues do fomewbat referable thofe of the Cherry Tee thev 
are very tender, indented about the edges : the floures be white : the fruit is round, haSS 
long foot-daikes pleaiant to behold, greene in the beginning, red when it is almofl n'ne f n A P 
" purplcmiJdvvi.l.blac^ 4 , 
yearn tht ll ° ne 1S fma 5 ° r ° f a meane bl g neffe ; tree brmgeth forth plenty of fruit euery other 
r The A Imond Plana groweth vp to the height of a tree ofa meane bigneffe : the branches 
a C ^ Smooth, and euen : the leaues are broad, fomthing long, and ribbed in diners pkces wkh 
fmall nerues running through the fame : the floures are white, fprinkled with a little dafo A n . 
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4 The Damafcen Plum tree groweth Iikewifc to a meane height, the branches very brittle - 
the leaues ofa deepe green colour s the fruit is round, ofa blewifo blacke colour : the done is like 
vnto that of the Cherry, wherein it diftereth from all other Plums. * 
5 The Bullefle and the Sloe tree arcwildekindes of Plums, which dovaryin their kind euen 
as the greater and manured Plums do. Of the BulIefTe, feme are greater and of better rade than 
others. Sloes are fome of one tafte, and fome ofothers, more flrarpe 5 fome greater,and others Z 
fer ; the which to didinguifo with long deferipdons were to final! purpofe, con fidering they be all" 
foiptions? thCm kn °' VnC CUCn Vnt ° the - fim P left : thercf °re this fhall fuffice for their feueral de! 
The Place. 
The Plum trees grow in all knowne countries of the world : they require a Ioofe m-ound thev al 
fo receiue a difference from the regions where they grow, nor only of the forme orAdhion bite" 
fpecially ofthe faculties, as we will forthwith declare 7 inion,Dut e- 
p ’t^m trees are alfo many times graffed into trees of other kindes,and being fo ingraffed 
they faaem parentis, fuccum adoft-ionis, <vt Plinius dicit, exhibent mgtaneu. 
The greateft varietie ofthefe rare Plums are to be found in' the grounds ofM '.vintem Power of 
The vvilde Plums grow in mod hedges through England. 
^ The Time. 
The common and garden Plum trees do bloome in April : the leaues come forth prefentlv with 
them : the fruit tsnpe in Sommer, fome fooner, fome later. P 
^ The Names . 
T ie Plumme tree is called in Greekc, k ■. in Latine, Prunus : inhmh-Diitch i&flanmpti* 
baum Sin low- Dutch, : in Spanifo.OiW* .. in Frcnch , Pru „ kr , ? n EnglifeJpCS . 
1 he fmit is called in Gieeke, = in Latine, Prrnum .• in high-Dutch l&flaumrti • ; n low’ 
Dutch ^up,mn S in Italian and French,*** •• in Spanifh,^-?.- in EnglifoK an *d Pllra 
Thc-fe hauealfo names from the regions and countries where they grow. ' ' ra “ 
in ££ n rlt f S haue ^ alled rll ° fc thac g to f j 11 Syria neere vnto Damafcus, Damafcena Pruna .- 
inEnglilh Damfons,or Damaske Prunes: and thofe thatgrowin Spain,&j»4««,S P 4nifli Prunes 
or P ums. So ra our age we vfe to call thole that grow in Hungarie,l«^„oi, or Patnonica Plums 
fahhTE : Tu v A U Pr T*°\ A aCh uT ^ ° f tIle C0Untr y of Cle ^ Pcripateticas 
ianh, that they of Rhodes and Sicilia docall the Damaske Prunes Erahula. f 
f T he Temperature and Vcrtues. 
and roT? r 1tb ,7 ipC “, d TT fer r f F om tbe trce > ' vbac bn foeuer they are of, do moiden 
and coole.and yeeld vnto the body very little nounfoment, and the fame nothin^ good at all • for 
life toTlf h VCr> ’ qlllCk Y X °h f ° \ aI , f ° the il,iCG 0f thcm a P c to P l,trifie in body, and like. 
„u , c fe the meate to putrifie which is taken with them : onely they are good fo/ thofe that 
lifilthe bdly^h 0 ^ 65 f0lllbleand C0 ° Ie 3 f0r b y their moidure and dipperineffb they do mol- 
, Dtted Plums, commonly called Prunes, are wholfomer. and more pleafant to the domaek thev 
Td nT m Tf rl n oF Nounfomcnts, that the bed doe grow in Damafcus a city of Syria - 
SmTn ft l y haC grOW ln S P a,ne : bllt t,lefc doe nothin g at all binde, yet diuers of the 
ofSpaine belwelter'l Vc f/.T? 5 A ^ raask . c Darafon p ™ ncs are more adringent,but they 
Ermcli inhis b ooks ofrhlf ‘ T . alt ^ that Damaske Prunes dried do day the belly ; but Galen af- 
’ books ofthe faculties of Ample medicines, that they domanifedly Ioofe the belly, 
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