A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.

Of the Mulberie tree.

THe Mulberie tree hath a soueraigne red colour in fruit bearing: whervpō in Gréeke it is called Moros, which signifieth red or ruddie coloured. There is saith Theophrast y^e Egyp∣tian Mulberie tree that is not much vnlike ours in the Gardaine: but it hath a singula•• maner by it selfe in fruite bearing, for neyther vpon his bough, neyther yet vpon his leafe, it beareth fruit but onely beneath out at his bo∣die, in the bignesse of our Fig. But forasmuch as it lacketh his inward Karnell (which other fruites haue) it is somewhat slack in hastning toward ripenesse, and is neuer mature or mel∣low, vntill such time as it be pressed and chafed with Iron Instruments, such as they haue in Aegypt. Which kinde of fruit being on this wise vsed as it were the space of foure dayes, it wareth ripe by and by, and in the eating is ve∣rie pleasant.