i5oS Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L i E.3. 
2 The white Mulberrie tree growethvntill it be come vnto a great and goodly ftature almoft- 
as big as the former : the leaues are rounder ; not fo fharpe pointed,nor lb deeply (nipt about the ed- 
ges, yet fometimes iinuated or deeply cut in on the Tides, the fruit is like the former, but that it is 
rvhite and fomewhat more tailing like wine. 
«J The Place. 
The Mulberry trees grow plentifully in Italy and other hot regions, where they doe maintainc 
great woods and groues of them, that there Silke wormesmay feed thereon. The Mulberry tree is 
fitly fet by the flip 5 it may alfo be grafted or inoculated into many trees, being grafted in a white 
Poplar, it bringeth forth white Mulberies, as Bentius in his Geoponickes reporteth. Thefegrovv 
in fundry gardens in England. 
The Time. 
Ofall the trees in the Orchard the Mulberry doth laft bloome,and not before the cold weather 
is gone in May (therefore the old Writers were wont to call it the wifefttree) at which time the 
Sil ke wormes do feeme to reuiue,as hauing then wherewith to feed and nourifh themfelues.which 
all the winter before do lie like fmall graines qr feeds, or rather like the dunging of a flefh flic vpon 
a glalfe,or feme fuch thing, as knowing their proper time both to performe their duties for which 
they were created, and alfo when they may haue wherewith to maintaine and preferue their owne 
bodies, vnto their bufineffeaforefaid. 
The berries are ripe in Augu ft and September. Hegcf.mder in Athenam affirmeth, that the Mul. 
berie trees in his time did not bring forth fruit in twentie years together, and that fo greata plague 
Of the gout then raigned and raged fo generally, as not onely men, but boies,wenches,eunuchs and 
women were troubledwith that difeafe. 
This tree is named in Grecke^ffa.and in Latine,il/w«j .• in (hops, CM or ns Celfe .■ in high 
Dutch, S^aulbetbautn in low Dutch <Jipoctbcfie booitv in French, Meurier : in Englifh, Mulberry 
The fruit is called 0*0'. and .■ in Latine,A/or«w .■ in {hops,Morum Celfi.in high Dutch,^19Qs 
Stbeffe 5 in Italian, Moro in French, CHeure : in Spanifh, Morat and Mores : in Englifh,Mulberry. 
•f The Temperature and Vertues. 
ft Mulberries being gathered before they be ripe, are cold and dry almoft in the third degree and do 
mightily binde ; being dried they are good for the laske and bloudy flix,the pouder is vfed in meat 
and isdrunke with wineand water. 
B They ftay bleedings, and alfo the reds ; they are good againft inflammations or hot fwe]lin<rs of 
the mouth and iawes,and for other inflammations newly beginning, 
C The ripe and new gathered Mulberries are lxkewife cold and be fulofiuice, which hath the tafte 
of wine, and is fomething drying, and not without a binding qualitieiand therefore it is alfo mixed 
with medicines for the mouth, and fuch as helpe the hot fwellings of the mouth, and almonds of 
the throat ; for which infirmities it is lingular good. 
D Of the iuicc of the ripe berries is made aconfcdionwith fugar, called Diamorum.- thnis after 
the manner ofafyrrup, which is exceeding good forthevlcers and hot fu ellings of the tongue, 
throat,and almonds, or V uu la of the throat, or any other malady arifing in thofe parts. 
E Thefe Mulberries taken in meat, and alfobefore meat, do very fpeedily pafle through the belly, 
by reafon of the moifture and flipperineffe of their fubftance,and make a paflage for other meats as 
Galen faith. 
p They are good to quench thirft,they ftir vp an appetite to meat, they are not hurtfull to the fto- 
macke,but they nourifh the body very little, being taken in the fecond place, or after meat, for a!- 
though they be leffe hurtfull than other like fruits, yet are they corrupted and putrified,vnleflTe they 
fpeedily defeend. 7 
G The barke of the root is bitter, hot and drie, and hath a fcouring facultie : the decodion hereof 
doth open the ftoppings of the liuerand fpleen,it purgeth the belly, anddriueth forth wormes. 
H The famebark being fteeped in vineger helpeth the tooth ache.-of the fame effed is alfo the de- 
codionof the leaues and barke, faith D lofcondes^who fheweth that about harueft time there iflu- 
eth out of the roota iuice, which the next day afteris found to behard, and that the fame is very 
good againft the tooth-ache; that it wafteth away Phyma,aad purgeth the belly. 
I Galen faith, that there is in the leaues and firft buds of this tree a cerraine middle facultie, both 
tobindeand fcoure. 
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