Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

¶Of Pino. chap. 121.

THe Pine apple trée is called both Pi∣nus and Picea, and hath that name Pinus, of sharpnesse of leaues, for in old time, men called Pinus sharpe. And this trée is called Picea, for out thereof swea∣teth and woseth pitch, as Isidore sayeth libro. 17. In the Ilandes of Germania, of y^e Pine apple trée commeth dropping and wosing, which is made harde with coldnesse or with heate, and so tourneth into a precious stone, that is called Elec∣trum, as Isidore sayeth there. And this Electrum hath another name, and is cal∣led Succus, for it is the iuyce of a Tree, and is there named and called Pinus.

Also this trée is good to all thing, that is kept and continued there-vnder: as the Figge tree gréeueth and noyeth all things that is there-vnder, as Isidore sayeth.

The Pine trée is an high trée, euen and light, with many small hoales, & is right strong, for therein be many knots, & for the Pine apple trée is right strong, oftentimes thereof be mastes made for ships, and is right good timber for edifi∣eng and buylding: but this trée taketh right soone fire, and burneth if it com∣meth nigh the fire, & that is, for because of the plenteous fatnesse, which is ther∣in, for out thereof commeth pitche. The rinde of this trée, is hard and rough with out, but the humour within is fat and gleymie, but this humour is drawen out in Summer by the heate of the Sunne, and chaungeth and tourneth into Rosin, and this Rosin is first white, and is right blacke when it is sodde and pitch made thereof, and sauoureth full well, and so doth the smoake thereof: also by great séething the sauour thereof abateth.

This trée beareth many leaues, but they be small and sharpe: and this trée is of gréene colour, both in winter and also in Summer. And though this trée be most fattest, yet it groweth in mountaines, & in right drye places, and also stony: & though this trée be of great springing, yet the more it is pared and shred towarde the grounde, the more it springeth and spreadeth vpward toward heauen: and groweth slowly, because of gleimie hu∣muor and thicke, that is soone deffed and digested. This trée is spoyled of y^e rinds, for it should dry the better. Betwéene the rinde and the Trée, wormes bréede, when the trée beginneth to drie, & these wormes fret and gnaw the trée, & ther∣fore to saue the trée and kéepe it, it is ac∣counted a chiefe medicine to take-off the rinde, that wormes bréed not of corrupt humo•••• that is in the rinde, & betwéene the tree and the rinde.

Also lib. 16. Plinius saith, that y^e Pine tree and Alloren trée, healed with earth ••orye vnder the ground, dure & last long time. Pipes and conduiles made of pine trée, and laid deepe vnder the earth dure many yeares, and rotteth and corrupt∣eth soone, if it lye aboue the earth in moyst places, which altogether hid vn∣der the grounde, by running of water that runneth thereon, it wexeth hard, & dureth in an house long time, & rotteth not soone, neither is worme eaten, but if it be corrupt with dropping of raine, but déepe vnder the earth, it cureth and abi∣deth full long time safe & sound without any corruption, and the contrarye is of the Ver, that rotteth anone vnder earth, and dureth best within the house & kept drye, as Plin. saith li. 21. ca. 10.

(* 1.1Of Pine trées ther are fiue kinds, as appeareth in Dudoneus Herball, and beareth a kinde of wooden apples, with∣in the which is Rosen: these serue for diuers purposes. folio. 770.)

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  Additiō.