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Title:  The academy of armory, or, A storehouse of armory and blazon containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in coats of arms, both foreign and domestick : with the instruments used in all trades and sciences, together with their their terms of art : also the etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same, explicated and explained according to our modern language : very usefel [sic] for all gentlemen, scholars, divines, and all such as desire any knowledge in arts and sciences / by Randle Holme ...
Author: Holme, Randle, 1627-1699.
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3. Such as are covered with Husks and Shells, as the Chesnut, the Walnut, the Almond, the Date, the Beech, the Nutmeg, the Filbert and Hassel.4. Such as bear Berries, as the Uine, the Mulberry.5. Such as bear Spices, as the Pepper, the Cloves, the Nutmeg, whose Husk is Mace, and Bark Cin∣namon.4. Trees that yield Gums, Rosin, Pitch or Tar, out of their Bodies for the use of Man, are the Cherry, the Plumb, the Mastich, the Turpentine, Myrrh, Camphir, Firr, 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 Iesa∣mine Tree, the Indian Iesamine, the Tamarisk Tree with white Leaves, the Firr Tree, the Arbor Uitae 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.Terms for Woodlands.A Wood, is a place set thick with Trees.A Grove, is a green pleasant place set with Trees.A Spring, or Coppy, a place set with young Trees.A Nursery, Trees sowed, which as they grow up are transplanted.A Forrest, is a place where Trees are thick and un∣passable.A Wilderness, is a vast, large and great Wood, not Travelled through.A Desart, a place large and great, made dark by thickness of Trees.A Thickett, a shady place and uncut, the Boughs not lopped.A Copse, a place that hath the Trees lopped and cropped, and grown again.But more particularly we say a Grove of Oaks, a Grove of Pines, a Grove of Birches, a Grove of Willows or Osiers, or else a Ground or Walk of Willows.Shrubs, or Underwoods.3. THose underlings or midling sort of Trees general∣ly called Shrubs or Underwoods are these, The Hasse.the Bullace.the Slow or Blackeborn.the Asder.the Holly.the Rose.the Eglantine.the Hony-suckle.the Sweethrier.the Brier.the Rasberry.the Curran-berry.the Blackberry or Bram∣ble.the Dog-berry.St. John's Berry.the Caper shrub.the Ivy.the Nutmeg or Cinna∣mon.the Hay or Hathorne.the Uine.the Hopp.the Pepper.the Goosberry or Fea∣berry.the Licorish.the Balm.the Cotton.the Laurel,the Mirtle.Vnder-Shrubs.4. THose that are smaller than Shrubs, are called Under-Shrubs, of which sort are these follow∣ing having woody stalks.Knee-holme or Butch∣ers broome.Gorse.Hen-gorse.Thistles.Heath or Heather.Spikenard.Lavender.Rue or Herb grass.Sage.Rosemary.Tyme.Hyssop.Wormwood.Mugworth.Bill-berries or Winber∣ries.To which some add the Bulrush, Sedges, Rush∣es, Reeds, and Canes, of which there are several sorts; but their Stalks or Branches cannot be said to be Woody.Such as are less than these, and have Stock or Stems and Branches more tender, and do every Year as it were Die, and the Year following spring out anew, these are called Plants, Herbs, Flowers and Grain, of which in their order and course.I. He beareth Argent, on a Mount, an Oak Tree Acorned or Fructed, proper. This is the strongest of Trees, and is apt for mighty Building, for it groweth to a vast height and circumference. In former times it was Hallowed to Jupiter, and the Acorns made Bread for the Food of Man. Born by Ockely.There is difference between on a Mount, and on a Mount in or out of Base; the first being free from the Escochion, the latter joined or issuing out of the Base. See numb. 65, 62, 62.O such a Tree born by Wood.A the like eradicated, by the name of Haell.II. He beareth Argent, an Oak Branch Acorned or Fructed, proper. Born by Amade.☞ The Branch of all Fruits and Leaves (according to the Rules of Heraldry) doth consist in three Fruit, and four Leaves; if more, then it may rather be termed a Tree than a Branch; if it have but one Acorn (or any other Fruit) with a Leaf on either side, then it is termed in Blazon, numb. 60. a Slip of an Oak Fructed, or an Acom¦slip (or slipped.) This is a great Fault both in the He∣ralds and Herald Painters, which is wished may be recti∣fied for time to come, that in their making and Painting of Arms, they observe this Rule and Difference between a Tree, a Branch, and a Slip of a Tree, otherwise in Blazon one may be often taken for another. See numb. 23.49, 60, 17.0