Tribe i6. The 'l heater of 'Plants* Cma p, 72, 1501 
both abroad and at home fuch variety, that a man might (pend his whole time thoroughly to obierve and fee 
downe all the forts that are knowne in other places. I will therefore endeavour but to fliew you here a genersll 
defeription of the tree, both tame and wdde.with fome forts that are not expreffed in my former Booke. 
1. Pyrtu jativa. 1 he manured Peare tree. 
The manured Peare in generall groweth higher, but llower then the Apple tree, more upright alfo and not 
fpreading the branches, and no lefie thicke,buc rather greater in thebulke or bodyrthe leave, are lomcwhat broa¬ 
der and rounder, greer.c above and whiter underneath then thole of the Apple tree the flowers are (mallerbuc 
whiter then the Apple bloffomes,and the fruite more long tl-^n round for the molt part, flnaller alfo at the ftalkc 
and greater at the head,of many differing fafhions,fzes,co!ours,and taftes, and times both in gathering and (pen¬ 
ding, fame being greene, fome ruff'et, other yellowifh or reddifh, fome great,others (mail, or long, or rounder 
fmooth,or bunched out, and fo for taftes alfo,fweetifo or lufhious, or delicate or waterifh.or hard and firme and 
well rellifhcd, or nor fo good robe earen raw,as baked or roafted, and fome tobefpentasfooneas they arena, 
theredjor foonc afeer, being Summer fruite, others nor to be Tpcnr untill the Winter te either come in,or neere 
or fully paft; each particular to every fruite we e too tedious: for this Workc being growne already (o volu¬ 
minous,and feeing ! have fhewedthem in parcelfewhere: The wood is fmooth clofc and firme, and ferveth for 
many ufes, both for formes to cut thelefigures ot the like in,and inltcad of wainfeot in many poore mens houfes 
and for many other purpofes. 
a. Pyrtu fylvcftrU. The Wilde or Choake Peare tree. 
The wilde Peare tree ufnally groweth tall and upright, like the manured kinde, and as little fpreading, but 
fometimes low and crooked, but fuller of branches, which maketh them the more knotty,the barke is blacker and 
more rugged,cleaving alfo in many places,and cafily to be pulled off ; with prickes and thornes fee here and there 
onthem, bur not fothickeas intheCrab, the leaves and flowers doe little vary, but that fome will have lsrier 
and others lefler leaves and flowers, which will alfo be a little deeper coloured then others, as the fruite befog 
greater or fmaller, and of a more or lefl'eharfhtalle, although all have fome, and the colour likewife in force is 
greene ordarkeruffec,andfome will be fo faire, yellow andicd, that they would invite any that feeth the in and 
knoweth them not to take and rafte of them, which then are fo different from their expectations, being harfh and 
unfavoury, that they prefcntly out with their purles and bellow this adage there on, Non eft Jempcrfides habe»4a 
from : yet this harfh unfavoury h uite, though later ripe then moll of the manured fortes, by being in part mel¬ 
lowed with the Autumnes coldes,and the ftanding of their j uyee being preffed forth and made into Perry, doth 
in time fo alter his former quality ofharfhnefle aud unlavourineffe, that it becommeth fully as cleere, and'aimoft 
as pleafant as white wine : the wood hereof is harder,firmer,and elofer then the former, and fo more knotty al¬ 
fo,whereby it becommeth mote frangible and fooner broken. J 
Of the manured Peares there is a fort that although it be a good W inter fruite,(wcete and well rcllilhed, efpe- 
cially if they be dewed or baked, yet the tree hath chornes upon it.like unto the wild fort, this was brought as it/v 7 
is fatd from Naples into jhyMC.where'it is plenty, and called Poirier d‘ eftine, and the fruite Poire efbine, that is rJva 
Pyrtu fativafpinofa, the pritkely Peare, ’ 
The winged Peare hath a leafe akvayes.or two fometimes, growing to the Tides of it, as if it came out ofthe 
Peare,and may thereforcbecalled PjropbilU, whereof Gameraritu, fpeaketh in horto. 
The Pome-peare,or Apple-peare, which is a fmaU Peare,but round at both ends Iike an Apple, yet the tree is a U’m 
Peare tree. y j om//y- 
The Blood Peare, whofe infide is red, as the outfide is. Camerarim in horto maketh mention hereof likewife. m ‘ 
The Laxative Peare which looleueth the belly being eaten. Camerarm there alfo hath this. ’ Fyn,s 
The double bloflbmed Peare. This bore double flowers with Mailer Wmrdjoi the Kings Granary, but whether ” 
it te alive or dead, I am not affured; nor whether it kept the forme, or did alter, taxothu 
Tyrtu fylveftris. The wilde Peare tree. ■pjrmjtc- 
1. Of the wilde kinde there are the great red Choke Peare, whofe colour and property, 1 have (hewed you in n ll ‘‘t licti 
the defeription. 1 
2. The fmaller Choke Peare. 
3. The Hedge Peare. 
4. The lowfle Hedge Peare. 
5 . The Crow wild Peare. 
< 5 , 7 . Wild P«res otCandj,the one they call Ach/ades,the other Aptfaga, as BeUtmhu faith.’ 
The opiate and Time. 
The manured forts are onely planted and preferved in Orchards for the purpofe, the wilde forts being fome 
found in ourowne Woods,ar.d planted in the Hedge-rowesof fieldes, to lave the ground of their growing and 
yet have as much ufe of them as by being abroad, the wild flowring and ripening their fruite later then thema- 
nured. The Names. 
The manured Peare is called in Greeke«v> 9 -,and in Latine Firsts, and Pyrin 4 frail ns ftoura etteod adTyramida- 
lufimtlitssdtnem , eUto in mtecronem turbinetur : 1 he wild Peare is calledin Grceke, by Theophrafim , 4 pri. 
vativo ttftt, tpttodnon Jit in ufufrttUtu ejue ad humanum corpus , ycr 'Diojcorides falch, a'xepi is a kind afwilde 
Peare of ic folic,and "Wa, in Latine Pints fylveftris, and Pyrafter,ot Pirafter .- all peaceable ages have beene much 
delighted with the variety of all forts of edible fruites, and therefore Cato , CoLamsUa y and others, but efpecially 
Pliny hath let downe the names of a numbcr,as they were well knowne in his time which how our age can pa- 
rallell ours unto them, I cannot tell;yet Lttgdttncnfis hath in fome fort endeavoured it to his French names bur 
how truely I know not, nor is it greatly mareriall for us to doe, beesufe names are often given from the place 
where they beft grow, or from the perfon that firft brought them into their Country, or was much delighted 
with them, or from fome other caufe or accident, which names are not fo fit for one Country as another: Wee 
have fo many in o wne Lind, that I never knew any one that could be poffeffed of all forts, although the v* drove 
to doe it as much as in them lay, for dill they were informed of (ome they had not: And I have declared a ma¬ 
ny of them in my former Booke. The tArabiam call ic Humctthe, Cirmetre , and Kcmctri. the Italians Fere th“ 
Spamitras the French Points } t\\t Germane* Bir r Biren i ^x\d Piren y the Dutch Btrrt&nd we Peare. 
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