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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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Chap. 133 . Of the Fig tree . 
The Description. 
1 X 1 ! C § ardcn F ?g tree . becorameth a tree of a meane ftature, hauing many branches full of 
-• r , , * c P lth within, life Elderne pith, and large leaues of a darke greene colour, diuided 
into fundry (cftionsor duitfions.Thc fruit commeth out of the branches without any floureatall 
that euer I could perceiue, which fruit is in fliape like vnto Pcares, of colour either whitifb or fome- 
what red, or of a deep blew, full of fmallgraines within,ofa fvveet and pleafant tafte • which beeinc 
broken before it be ripe, doth yeeld moft white milk,like vnto the kindcs of Source, ’and the !eau« 
abb beetng broken doe yeeld the like liquour-but when the Figges be ripe, the iutce thereof is like 
1 Ficus. 
The Fig tree. 
t z Chdmstjicus. 
The dwarfe Fig tree. 
2 The dwarfe Fig-tree is like vnto the former in leaues and fruit, but it neuergroweth ab 0uc 
the height of a man 3 and hath many fmall fhoots comming from the roots 5 whereby it sreatlv in 
creafeth. 1 
There is alio another wilde kinde,vvhofe fruit is nener lipe^Thcophrafltts namethitPri#«>r.plW 
Caprtjicus. ’ J 
^ «[ The Place. 
1 he Fig trees do grow plentifully in Spain and Italy, and many other countries, as in EngJand- 
wliere they beare fruit, but it neuer commeth to kindely maturitie, except the tree be planted vnde’r 
anhotwall,w:xreto neither North, nor North call windes can come. 
, The Time. 
The dwarfe Fig tree groweth in my garden, and bringeth forth ripe and very great fruit in the 
m one th Of A uguft ; of which Figs fundry perfons haue eaten at pleafure. 
In England the F lg trees put not forth their leaues vntill the end of . ay, where oftentimes the 
•ifuit commeth forth before the leaues appeare, 
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