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There are many sorts of them, but all are of one nature and held in great estimation.
They are trees that grow to three foot high, spreading with branches to the very bottome, and in the beginning of * 1.1 March this plant putteth forth so many Flowers that it cover∣eth it self, these Flowers are made of four leaves and of a red∣dish colour, and after the Flowers shed there springeth leaves which are of a swarthy green colour and as broad as a shilling, afterward appeareth a green berry, and in August it turneth red as a Cherry, and something bigger than a great Pea, by Michaelmas it is full ripe, then it is coal black and loseth the outer husk, the seed is in the middle, which is black also and smooth as glass.
The propagating of this plant is chiefly of the seed in this manner, in the beginning of April make hot beds of a foot high, laying of two inches of earth on it, then cast the seed upon that, then lay another inch of earth upon that, let both be ridled well; make a shelter over the bed with sticks and mats, and in short time the seeds will come up and there they must stand till the fall, and then transplant it into ordinary beds, but they must be sheltered the winter following or else the cold will endanger to kill them: many curiosities more there are used about them which I will not treat of, a wise man knows one thing by another.