CHAP. III.
1. Having spoken of such Natures in the Globe of the World, as have a Being from God the maker of all things, and in a manner are said to live. In the next place, we shall treat of those Creatures or Animals, which by Nature are said properly or perfectly to live; such Natures I mean, as those which have in them express and manifest tokens of Life, and of a Living Soul.
Of this kind some are Vegitive, others Sensitive, and the third sort are Rational: And for as much as I am now to discourse of the Vegetable Animals, and of their particular kinds. I shall first begin with Trees.
Trees are certain Plants springing from a Root, with a single Trunk or Stock, or Stem (for the most part) shooting up in height, and delineated with Limbs, Branches, or Spriggs, on which groweth Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, and the like.
Of these Trees some are more proper to hot Countreys and others to a more temperate, and some again to cold Regions, as the Frankincense to Arabia. The Balsamum, Myrrh, Nutmeg and Mace, the Pepper Trees, and such like chiefly grow in India, the Plane Tree in Egypt and Arabia, the Pomegranate, Orange and Lemon Trees in Africa; the Apple, Pear, Nut, Cherry, Plumb, and such in Europe and the several parts thereof. ...
1. Trees that bear no Fruit but their own Seed, are the Linden, the Plane, the Maple, the Ash, the Elme, the sycamore, the Birch, the Poplar, the Osier or Withen, the Willow, the Cedar, the Cypress, the Ewe, the Palm, the Box, the Firr.
2. Trees that bear Fruit, but not for Mans general eating, are the Oak, the Holly, the Hathorn or Whitthorn, the Gall, the Cork, the Privett, the Cotton, the Alder, the Bay, the Laurel or Mirtle.
3. Trees that bear Fruit for the use of Man, are of several sorts, and all eatable according to their Seasons and kinds; as
(1.) Such as are covered with Rinds, as the Figg, the Pear, the Apple, the Orenge, the Lemon, the Pomegranate, the Pomecitron, the Quince, the Medler or Open-arse.
(2.) Such as have Stones in them, as the Cherry, the Plumb, the Peach, the Apricock, the Olive, the Cornell, the Bullays, the Slow-tree.
(3.) Such as are covered with Husks and Shells, as the Chesnut, the Walnut, the Filbert and Hassel.
(4.) Such as bear Berries, as the Vine, the Mulberry.
(5.) such as bear Spices, as the Pepper, the Cloves, the Nutmet, whose Husk is Mace, and Bark Cinnamon.
4. Trees that yield Gums, Rosins, Pitch or Tar, out of their Bodies for the use of Man, are the Cherry, the Plumb, the Mastich, the Turpentine, Myrrh, Camphir, Rirr, and the Pitch Tree.
5. Trees and Shrubs, and Wood Plants, whose Leaves are always green, are the Bay, the Laurel, the Orenge Tree, the Strawberry Tree, the Mirtle, the Jesamine Tree, the Indian Jesamine, the Tamarisk Tree with white Leaves, the Firr Tree, the Arbor Vitae or Tree of Life, the Cypress Tree, the greater Stone crop Tree, the evergreen Oak, Holly, Box, the ever green Hawthorn, the Staff-tree, the Privet.
Trees and fruit Book II, Chapter 3, Section 1a
Oak
Untranscribed item(s) Shrubs, or Underwoods; Terms for Woodlands
Oak Branch Acorned
Acorn
Oak Leaf
Tree
Pear
Pear
Pear
VIII. He beareth a Pear Tree Fructed. By the name of Pear-Tree.
Related text(s) Pear varieties
Apple
IX. He beareth an Apple.
Related text(s) Apple varieties
Quince
X. He beareth a Quince and Leaf pendant.
The Quince is full of Burs and bunches, or unequal, covered with a white Cotton before it be ripe, but then yellow.
Related text(s) Quince varieties
Pomecitron
XI. He beareth a Pomecitron (or Poundcitron. The leaf of this Fruit is nicked, or small indented like a Cherry leaf; the Fruit is generally covered with a rugged, bunched out, and uneven yellow Bark.
The Limoons are like the Pomecitron, and larger and more rugged than the former.
Lemon
XII. He beareth a Lemon and Leaf.
The Lemon hath a pleasant yellow rind, some are smooth, others Poery, and others full of Carbuncles, or set here and there with swelling knobs.
Orange
XIII. He beareth an Orange and Leaf.
The Orange is between a yellow and red, or of the colour of the mixture of both.
This Tree doth at all Seasons of the Year bear Fruit, having Ripe, Green Fruit, and Blossoms on it all at a time; and the Leaves always Green, and sweet smelling Flowers of a whitish colour.
Apricot
XIV. He beareth A Stock slipped at both ends, with three Apricocks in a Cluster fixed thereon, and leaves. They are of a yellowish red colour and downy.
Related text(s) Peach Nectarine
Almond
XV. He beareth an Almond slip fructed. ... Barbary Almonds are small, Jordan Almonds long and slender, Valentia Almonds short and broad.
Pineapple
XVI. He beareth a Pine Apple; the Apple is at first raw and green; but ripe, it is of a yellow colour, inclining to Red or Chesnut.
Four Pine Apples
Firr Tree
Cedar Apple slipped
Pomegranate
Pomegranate
XXI. He beareth a Pomegranate sans Stalk.
This Fruit is red by nature: They are never born in Arms but with a broken or burst side to shew their Seed within them, though naturally they are close and have a hard husk, which requires cutting: The end is jagged and cut unevenly.
Medlar
XXII. He beareth a Medlar Slip, with one Leaf on the Sinister side. It is called generally an Open-arse; the Fruit is green in growing, but being laid aside to mellow or rather rot, (for they are not good till then) it goes to a kind of brown or hair colour.
Cherry
XXIII. He beareth a Cherry Slip.
Related text(s) Cherry varieties
Plum
XXIV. He beareth a Plumb. There is several sorts of Plumbs, both round, long, Pear-like, Wheat-like, &c. and these are both white, red, green, and black.
Related text(s) Plum varieties
Slip of three Leaves
Laurel Leaf or Bay Leaf
Laurel Garland
Laurel Sprig
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