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The Theater of ‘Planti. 
and ftiorc ftalke, and fet in the fmall huske, thac 
formerly held the flower, being pointed at the end, 
dividedasit wereintofonre parts, with fiirrowes, 
which being deepely imprcffed therein, make 
it the moregracehill, of a pleafant tart tafte, very 
pleating to the palate and (lomackc, in the middle 
whereof are contained (mail feedes. Thefe Iruites 
ai e much uled as well to plcafe and llirre up the 
appetite by reafon of their pleafant fharpcnefle, as 
in hot and chollericke agues alfo, either the juyce 
of them made into a Syrupc, or the whole fruite 
preferved in Sugar,or pickled up in brine to fcrve 
for aftertimes: home ute the juyce thereof with 
other ocular medicines for to take away the haw, 
or the pinne and web inthecycs, or any filme be¬ 
ginning to grow over them. 
Chap, 105. 1637 
«<*. Furrowed ran Indian AppJ,,. 
C H AP. CV. 
lambos . Blood red, and blufti 
Peares of India. 
Here is another Indian fruite wor¬ 
thy to be remembred as well for the 
beauty it beareth in the (he w there¬ 
of, and the Iweete lent and tafte it 
cariyeth to the other lenfes, as 
chiefely for the excellent mcdicinall properties 
is now daily found out more and more in ir.The 
tree groweth vafie, or huge equalling the grea- 
teft Orrcnge tree in Spaine ,largely fpread with 
greatafmes which make a fpacious (haddow : 
the body and branches are covered with a gray- 
iflt barke, the leaves are very faire, and ftr.ooth 
an handfull long or mote with a thicks middle 
ribbe, and other fmalierveines therein, of a fad 
greene on the upperfide, and paler greene under¬ 
neath, the Hewers are of a lively purplifh red 
^colour,with divers threds ill the middle, very 
pleafant and (landing in a great huske, and ra¬ 
fting like Vine branches: the fruite is of the big. 
nefle and fufliion of a King Feare, growing out 
of that large huske, wherein the flower was for¬ 
merly feated, and are of fundry kindes. for fomej 
areoffodeepe a red colour that they fecmeall-f 
moft blacke,fome have no kernell or ftone ,w iffy 
in them, when others have one, which arc the 
beft: another fort is of a whitifb red colour, and 
Aiming deare, having a hard ftone within it 
like to a Peach ftone, butfmooth, and covered 
with a white rough skinne, which although it 
muft give place to the former, yet may well be 
lamias. Redandblufl, coloured Peares of India. 
accepted 
