Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs, and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues collected by Iohn Parkinson apothecary of London 1629.

CHAP. XVIII.

Mala Arantia. Orenges.

I Bring here to your consideration, as you see, the Orenge tree alone, without menti∣oning the Citron or Lemmon trees, in regard of the experience we haue seen made of them in diuers places: For the Orenge tree hath abiden with some extraordi∣nary looking and tending of it, when as neither of the other would by any meanes be preserued any longtime. If therefore any be desirous to keepe this tree, he must so prouide for it, that it be preserued from any cold, either in the winter or spring, and exposed to the comfort of the sunne in summer. And for that purpose some keepe them in great square boxes, and lift them to and fro by iron hooks on the sides, or cause them to be rowled by trundels, or small wheeles vnder them, to place them in an house, or close gallerie for the winter time: others plant them against a bricke wall in the ground, and defend them by a shed of boardes, couered ouer with seare-cloth in the winter, and by the warmth of a stoue, or other such thing, giue them some comfort in the colder times: but no tent or meane prouision will preserue them.

The Orenge tree in the warme Countries groweth very high, but with vs (or else it is a dwarfe kinde there of) riseth not very high: the barke of the elder stemmes being of a darke colour, and the young branches very greene, whereon grow here and there some few thornes: the leaues are faire, large, and very greene, in forme almost like a Bay leafe, but that it hath a small eare, or peece of a leafe, fashioned like vnto an heart vnder euery one of them, with many small holes to be seene in them, if you hold them vp betweene you and the light, of a sweet but strong smell, naturally not falling away, but alwaies abiding on, or vntill new be come vp, bearing greene leaues continually: the flowers are whitish, of a very strong and heady sent; after which come small round fruit, greene at the first, while they are small, and not neere maturitie, but being grown and ripe, are (as all men know) red on the out side, some more pale then others, and some kindes of a deeper yellowish red, according to the climate, and as it receiueth the heate of the sunne, wherein is contained sower or sweete iuice, and thicke white ker∣nels among it: it beareth in the warme Countries both blossomes and greene fruit continually vpon it, and ripe fruit also with them for the best part of the yeare, but e∣specially in Autumne and Winter.

The Vse of Orenges.

Orenges are vsed as sawce for many sorts of meates, in respect of their sweete sowernesse, giuing a rellish of delight, whereinsoeuer they are vsed.

The inner pulpe or iuice doth serue in agues and hot diseases, and in Sum∣mer to coole the heate of deiected stomackes, or fainting spirits.

[illustration] depiction of fruit

1 Malus Arantia. The Orenge tree, 2 Malus. The Apple tree. 3 Malum Carbonarium. The Pomewater. 4 Malum Curtipendulum. The golden 〈◊〉〈◊〉 5 Melapium. The Pearemaine. 6 Malum Reginei••••. The Queene Apple. 7 Malum Primo matu••um. The Genneting. 8 Malum Regule. The pound Ro••∣all. 9 Malum Kentij ad feruescondum. The Kentish Codlin. 10 Malum Regineum spurium. The Bardfield Quining.

The dryed rinde, by reason of the sweete and strong sent, serueth to bee put among other things to make sweet pouthers.

The outer rindes, when they are clensed from all the inner pulpe and skins, are preserued in Sugar, after the bitternesse by often steepings hath been taken away, & do serue either as Succots, and banquetting stuffes, or as ornaments to set out dishes for the table, or to giue a rellish vnto meats, whether baked or boyled: Physically they helpe to warme a cold stomack, and to digest or breake winde therein: or they are candid with Sugar, and serue with other dryed Iunquets.

The water of Orange flowers is oftentimes vsed as a great persume for glones, to washe them, or in stead of Rose-water to mixe with other things.

It is vsed to bee drunke by some, to preuent or to helpe any pestilentiall feuer.

The oyntment that is made of the flowers, is very comfortable both for the stomache, against the could or cough, or for the head, for paines and disinesse.

The kernels or seede beeing cast into the ground in the spring time, will quickely grow vp, (but will not abide the winter with vs, to bee kept for growing trees) and when they are of a finger length high, being pluckt vp, and put among sallats, will giue them a maruellous fine aromaticke or spicy taste, very acceptable.

The seed or kernels are a little cordiall, although nothing so much as the kernels of the Pomecitron.