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THe Peach-Tree is notorious and frequent in most places of France, for they beset their Vineyards therewith; it assurges to a moderate procerity, emitting long and fragile boughs, vested with rare leafes like Willowes, serrated about, amare to the gust and aromatically redolent; its flowers are like them of Almonds, but more dilutely purpureous.
Dioscorides saith that in Persia they found this Tree to be exiti∣ous, which by translation into Aegypt changed its nature, and be∣came innocuous, which also Galen affirmes; but Matthiolus con∣tradicts them upon such light conjectures, as he will never be able to infirmate or disprove the authority of such grave men withall.
It beares abundance of Apples, which are obduced with white dawn, subluteous, succulent, carnous, and variegated within and without, with certain red strokes; they are somtimes all luteous, the colour of the externall Cortex, shewes the colour of the internall Pulpe as red without, red within.
These Apples are rotund, but they have a small depressure on one side like a rime: their succe according to Galen, is small as al∣so their flesh, because they are soon corrupted: therefore the syrup made of their succe, which some celebrate much, is rather to be neglected then commended.
Peaches are cold and moist in the second degree, their succe is very corruptible, and they no good last dish; they are better be∣fore other meats then after.
Their Kernells are dry, they open, incide, exterge, and cure the infarctures of the Liver or Milt.
Their amare Leafes, calefy, incide, liberate the intralls from obstructions, subduce the belly, and move choler.
There is a good Hydragogall syrope, which also kills Wormes, made of their flowers.