The P liter find Time, 
The better farts of Apples are planted in Orchards,and lorn6 of the other, as the dwarfe kinde, the Wildings 
or Crabs grow in Woods generally,yet arc planted in the hedges in many Countries of this Land to make Cy¬ 
der withail, the Apples in gencrall flower, and bud forth leaves later then Pcares, and ripen earlier or later for 
the mod part,according to the kinde. The Names. 
It is called in Greeke /*«*w,aud the fruite ^»Aoyn Latine c Malta and c Malttrh, or Pomw and Pomum, yet Po~ 
mum is a generall word including the fruites of many other treesior fume would diftinguifh all lorts of fruites 
into Pomum and Nacem-^ux. Scaliger faith the opinion of thofe Grammai ians b too ridiculous : it is therefore u- 
iually called Malta, but yet that word likewife is referred to divers other kindesof trees, as Malta Cydomaftve 
Cotone a,A / falta Medicavel Citria,Alalia Limoni a, (JMalw Aura* feu Auraxtia, MetlUt Perfica, Malta Punic a, 
Malws Arminiaca vcl pracocia,and many others,and Pliny numbreth Zizypha, and Tttbcrcs among them, who re- 
citeth the namc6 of a number of forts frequent with them, as he doth every where with other loiits pf fruites, 
which to relate here were impertinent, efpecially tous, who can apply but very f&w of them to thofe forts arc: 
knownc among us,and to fave time co fpend to better pnrpofe. Comariw raketh ini' Caftan* mala which £>/«- 
mella calleth Sejliana , to be the Arantia Orcngc : but Galen appointing the Cafiiana mala to be boy led, to give 
one for the head ache, did not meanc the Orenge,which was neither knowne to him or in his rnne,nor yet is ufed 
to beboyled. The Arabians call it Tufa and Tufalia, the Italians Mile, the Spaniards Manfards, the French 
pomier and Pome, the Germanes <Depfell and ApffcB, the ‘Dutch Appel.and we Apple. 
TheZertues . 
Apples in generall are cold and windy, and being of fundry taftes, Galen fheweth thereby how todiftinguifli 
them,for fomehave an auftere taftc,and are good for fainting ftomackes and loofc beilyes, others fowre good to 
coole and quench third, and fame fharpe,fit to cutgrofle flegme, fome fwcete foone difltibuted in the body, 
and as quickly patted away,yet foondr corrupting in the ftomackeif they be flayed : the Left fc rts before they 
be thorough ripe,are to be avoydedjthen to be rdfcd or fealded is the beft way to take them, and a little fpice or 
feedes mixed or caft upon them, and taken after meate, doe ftrfngthen both ftomacke and bowel?, efpecially 
in thofe that either loathe their meate or hardly digeft it, and for thefe that are given to catling, or have 
a fiixe or laskcj thofe that are not fweete, but rather a little fowrecr hatfh, tiled in that manner arefitteft: 
Swcete Apples doe loofen the belly, and thereby drive forth the wermes that are therein." fewer Ap¬ 
ples floppe the belly, and provoke vrine; Crabs for this purpofe are the fitted : The fwcete Apples, as the 
Pippin and Pearemaine helpe to diffolve Melancholly humours,to procure mirth and expcll heavireflc,and theie- 
foreare fitted for Ccnfettio Alkermcs, and Sjtnpta de pemts • Thelcaves boylcd and given todiii ke inhot a^ 
gues,and vvhere the heate of the liver and ftomacke caufeth the lippes to breake out, and the throate tc grow dry 
harfh and furred, is very good tp wafh and gargle it withal), and to drinke do'jvne foihe • this may to good 
purpofe 
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