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2 ChAP,8o, 
Theat rum Botanicum . 
1 a l b it 16 . 
Prunu. The Plumme tree. 
drrrKaiaea wins five TiteocuK The Aprwske ticc. 
Knelt o 
$mxfo. 
*• (dMahu Armemaca ftveprecacit. The Apricocke tree' 
- TbsApriiocketree.ifitnandbyitrelfeasaftandjrdcree.likeotheRPlHinine trees (which it feldome doth 
ITi?h r o f P « hma’rl f anH a i YlO- y be ? e ra ! rcthac manne[ ) will rife to be as threat as a Plumme tree, 
V ith great broad, and almo.t round leaves, bu: po.nted at the ends and finely denied about theedves: the fiow- 
the miMe'fcm^whaHrkl 0 ^ Y^f thC , frult * thaC fQllowcch is round, with a cleft or open furrow in 
* ' ( \ hv ° f r P 6 ydl ? Wlfl: ’ coloui on the outliJe.as well as on the mfide, and a 
little reddiih on a fide in molt, yet whiter in feme, and of differ, ngfizesalfo, Come fmaller or greater • ofafir- 
mer or fa.ur c.ofc lalwance tlie n any of the Plummer; a fmoothflattifhUonein the middle, great or little, ac¬ 
cording to the fruite, which is ripe with,or before the earlier fort of Plummes ( and likely km° before any of 
our earely forts were ltnowne informer times) which was the caufe of the name and a fvveete kerncll within 
it, yet it is fiid there ts one that hath a bitter kcrnell, which I have not feene. 
The P/McindTime. 
All the forts of them are planted, none of them growing naturally in our CcHntrv and either in Orchards 
for their private pofleffours, or in the Hedges, or other places of rhe e;,u„ w ci u j an ’ 
er bef ire porhrr Annie nr Pe„re rh a. - i T , p ot tl,e fields,Woods,or Parkes abroad,and fiow- 
/Lme 7 rHe, f a l , P rhe ° Z r J m A P ncQcke befor e any Plumme, by a moneth or more, and is ripe by Sr. 
\*™. U lly * h h Of Plummes comming on every one in their degree, tome earlier, and fome 
The Names, 
7 .x Plume as it is thought is in Grtreke the mkkuimd&x nfTtm/ l . ~ a u. i ■ # , 
vYeYlY^enheYYwa^u^of'' 9 ' ^ ,he 7J ‘ ra <« ^“tlm ^w^edt D 
and flat,then thicket round,andwe'rede ^ fYld" eve^r c taft The Apf ""r-* ‘Y?"'J ith ' R rlthcr H 
*nd hy,.k, in Latine CbryfomeU. i. e OullurZ I f T 
thotirs, yet fome call it Baracoccn : The Plu nge iscalled bi <hrJ?t ^ iT"* by a " An ' 
l\««< Pruned Succne, by the Sp^rd, by tbc/ «- 
bv the Germenet i. .1 m , „ ’ and edmexca by the French Prunur, and Prunes, 
an Y We Plurames ‘ The A pricocke is called by the 
Grtfemele, by the Sfa^rdJ At . 
Ffferttch, and by us Apricocke. 1 ’ by thc Fr! *‘ h edbncct,ini Germengmiles, by the Germans Sir Iehan 
, . ... "IheVertuet, 
' “™ d ‘ Vetficy m the fscnIt y ofPlummcc, for fome that arc fweete, doe moiflen the ftomacke, and 
make 
