The other, whose branches, although small, grow more vpright, hauing greener shining leaues: the fruit is little bigger then the former, red also when it is ripe, with a litle point at the end: both of them of a sweetish rellish, but more sower.
The great bearing Cherry of Master Millen is a reasonable great red cherry, bearing very plentifully, although it bee planted against a North wall, yet it will bee late ripe, but of an indifferent sweet and good rellish.
The long finger Cherry is another small long red one, being long & round like a finger, wherof it took the name: this is not the Vrinall cherry before, but differing from it.
The Vse of Cherries.
All these sorts of Cherries serue wholly to please the palate, and are eaten at all times, both before and after meales.
All Cherries are cold, yet the sower more then the sweete; and although the sweete doe most please, yet the sower are more wholsome, if there bee regard taken in the vsing.
The Agriot or sower Cherries are in France much vsed to bee dryed (as is said before) as Pruines are, and so serue to be ministred to the sicke in all hot diseases, as feuers &c. being both boyled in their drinkes, and taken now and then of themselues, which by reason of their tartnesse, doe please the stomacke passing well.
The Gum of the Cherrie tree is commended to bee good for those are troubled with the grauell or stone. It is also good for the cough being dissolued in liquour, and stirreth vp an appetite. The distilled water of the blacke Cherries, the stones being broken among them, is vsed for the same purpose, for the grauell, stone, and winde.