The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
The FILBEARD TREE. [ 10]
THis Tree is well received amongst all; there are three sorts, more rare than the com∣mon known amongst us, viz.
The White Filbeard is the most common.
The Red Filbeard also common.
The Filbeard of Constantinople, which is much like the White, but hath its Kernel larger and better. [ 02]
