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AUrenges or aureous Apples so called from their colour, grow upon a Tree very like the Limmon-Tree in effigies, for their colours, odours, flowers and leafes are the same, only they differ a little in that part next the peduncle, which in the Orenge is as it were pinnated and double, they are dilutely green, odorate and concolorate with the Limmon-Trees fruits: the Tree whereon they grow is tall, ramous, perpetually virid, and daily pomi∣ferous, some growing, other falling, and others ripening, it beares flowers al the year, which are white, elegant, suaveolent and more fragrant in Summer, then other times; some whereof ad∣haere to a nodose pedicle and are faecund, others are enodous and sterile. Aqua Naphae so much celebrated for its suavity and fra∣grance is distilled from these, which Matrons and delicate Cour∣tiers wash their faces, hair, and hands with.
Great plenty of Orenges are carried from Spain, Italy, and France into other regions, some whereof are sweet, and ingratefull or at least not pleasant to the gust; others acid, jucund, cordiall and gratefull to the palate; all round, nitent of a Golden colour or ve∣ry flave whence they are often called Golden Apples.
The sweet ones are temperate, the acid ones refrigerate, arce∣ate putretude, resist Poysons, and corroborate; their pills are acri∣monious, amare and hot, which for their gracious odour are used in sawces condited in Sugar, it emends the breath of ones mouth.