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 fruit is longish, of a cylindrical shape, about as big as a luke-olive, of a black colour when ripe, including a long 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 ripe 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 <??> way of giving it, is in syrup or conserve, or the expressed juice with honey or mum.