Of the Hiftory of Plants, 
leaues, branches, and floures, fauing that they are fometimes once doubled : the fruit is final!, 
round, and of a darke bloudy colour when they be ripe, which the Frenchmen gather with their 
ftalkes,and hang themvp in their houfes in bunches orhandfulls againft winter, which the Phyii- 
tiansdogiue vnto their patients in hot and burning feuers, being firftfteeped in a little warrae 
water, that caufeth them to fvvell and plumpe vp as full and frefh as when they did grow vpon the 
tree. 
6 The Clufter Cherry-tree differeth not from the laftdeferibed either in leaues, branches, or 
ftature : the floures are alfo like.but neuercommeth any one of them to be double. The fruit is 
reund,red when they be ripe, and many growing vpon one ftem or footftalke in clufters, like as the 
Grapes do. The taile is not vnpleafant,although fomewhat foure. 
7 This Cherrie-tree with double floures growes vpvntoa final! tree, not vnlike to thecom- 
mon Cherrie-tree in each refpett.fauing that the flours are fomewhat doubled, that is to fay, three 
or foure times double • after which commeth fruit(though in fmall quantitie)like the other com- 
mon Cherrie. 
8 Thedouble floured Cbcrrie-treegrovvesvplikevntoanhedgebufh,butnotfogreatnor high 
as any of the others ; the leaues and branches differ not fromthereftoftheCherrie-trees. The 
floures hereof areexceeding double, as are the floures of Marigolds, but of a white colour, and 
fmelling fomewhat like the Hawthorne floures ; after which come feldorae or ncuer any fruit, al- 
though f®me Authors haue faid that it beareth fometimes fruit, which my felfe haue not at any 
time feen ; notwithftanding the tree hath growne in my garden many yeeres, and that in an excel- 
lent good place by abricke wall, where it hath the reflection of the South funne, fit fora tree that 
is not willing to bearc fruit in our cold climar. 
II Ceraf us nigra. 12 Chamacerafus, 
The common blacke Cherry-tTee The dwarfe Cherry-tree. 
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9 The Birds Cherry-tree,or the blacke Cherry-tree, that bringeth forth very much friutvpon 
one branch (which better may be vnderftood by fight of the figure, than by words) fpringethvp 
like an hedge tree offfnall ftature, it groweth in the vvilde woods of Kent, and are there vfe.l for 
ftockes to graft other Cherries vpon, of better tafte, and more profit, as efpecially thofe called the 
Flanders Cherriesithis vvilde tree growes very plentifully in the North of England, efpecially ac a 
place called HeggdaIe,neervnto Rofgill in Weftmerland,and in diners other places about Groff 
bie Rauenfwaith, and there called Hegberrie-tree : it groweth likewife in Martome Parke, foure 
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