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CORNEL-TREE

Name. Called also dog-berry.

Description. This tree is usually of the bigness of an ordinary cherry-tree, with leaves somewhat alike, but broader, smoother, and not serrated about the edges. The flowers grow in clusters, being small and yellow. The flowers grow in clusters, being small and yellow. The fruit is longish, of a cylindrical shape, about as big as a luke-olive, of a black colour when ripe, including along hard stone. It is of a sweet, but somewhat astringent taste.

Place. It grows in gardens.

Time. It flowers in March and April; but the fruit is not rip until September.

Government and virtues. This tree is under Venus. The fruit is cooling, drying, binding, and strengthening to the stomach, and good in hysteric fits. The best way of giving it, is in syrup or conserve, or the expressed juice with honey or mum.


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