colour,fmeiling fomewhat llrong and fweete,aicer which come the fruite, which are (mail blacke round berryes 
no bigger then fmall peafe,with little fubftance upon them, and very (mall hones wichin them, everyone on a 
fbort footefialke, but many together in a long clultcr, like the wilde duller or bitdes Cherry, of an harfh tafte, 
and of an evil! fent while it is eating. The wood alfo (melleth ftrong or not well, from whence came the name. 
a. CMachaleb Germumcum. The rocke Wilde Cherry of Aufiria, 
This rifeth fometimes to the heigh,h of a reafonablc tree, on the branches whereof come forth certaine knots 
or knobs, and Cherry tree like leaves at them but lefler, and from among them a l'mall long greene lialke, with 
eight or ten white flowers thereon, hanging in a duller, made of five leaves a peece, like unto the Cherry blof- 
fome with along pointed in the middle,compaffed with five white chives, ti'pt with pendents, purpliih at the 
firft,and yellow after,as fweete as Hawthorne flowers, handing in greene huskes, oivided into five parts, after 
which come fmall berryes no bigger then pepper cornea, and blacke on the outbids: at the ends of the branches 
grow fuch like fhining greene leaves as the other dented about the edges, 
5. iJMacbaleb Syriacum. 1 he per inning Cherry of .fyrid. 
This Machaleb of the Arabians doth not grow to any bigneffe.but with broad fhorc leaves like the Line tree, 
pointed at the ends and dented about the edgesghe flowers are white, and the berryes blacke,having a fmall (tone 
within themlikeuntoa Cherry Hone, butlefTer, and abrownifhcotcdkcrnell within them, fmeiling hot and 
fweete,yet bitter withail, which many perfumers doe tile co oiise with other perfuming tivec.es. 
6. Chammrafiu montamt Accrii folio. The mountaine dwarfe Cherry. 
Thisdwarfe plant is reckoned alfo to theCherryes, having broad leaves cut in or divided at the edges, refem- 
bling thofe of the Maple tree : the fruite is round and red like unto a Cherry,and therefore reckoned as one, two 
for the moll part handing together on a long fialke. 
7. Chomecerafut exoticaroturAifoliaIedlca. Theftrange or Indian Cherry. 
This Exoticke Indian, hath (freight flendcr branches,with fail e and fomewhat broad leaves thereon, fomewhat 
like unto thofe of the Cherry rrec,yet fome rounder and not pointed at the ends,but all finely dented abouc the ed¬ 
ges: the fruite is fmall and red like a divarfe Cherry. 
The Place and Time. 
The firft kinde is alwayes planted in Orchards, where among divers other, it taketh up a roome. The fccond 
in Turkic,a\Ttabiz,mi, and planted firft in Italy,at Genoa,in th; Prince Onits Gar Jen, where BeUmiut firfl, with 
tedious travell found iu, and was fent from Confiantinople, to Matthioli-.s arid ethers. The third in feme gravelly 
grounds in Savoy. The fourth, fifth and laft, are cxprellin their titles, and the fixth in Lombardy ; And for the 
mofl part flower, and beare their fruite about the time that others of their fort doe. 
The Names. 
The Cherry tree is called in Grecke«sw , and the fruite wown, in Latine Ceraftn a n i| Gtrafa. Atheneus 
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