plant
Cherry
Cherry as a plant people have named and used. Brief bloom, bright fruit, short season — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Cherry is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists cherry (kerasos) gum and fruit among drug materials. A named cherry in that handbook, not a pie dump and not apple as the neighboring fruit pharmacy.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Cherry is used in Elder.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, cherry-stone kernels are distilled with elder flowers in muscadel — elder flowers enter the same stone-easing distillate as the cherry kernels.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Cherry is associated with Seventy.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, seventy different species of cherries, wild and cultivated, are noted after Lucullus’s Asian cherry-tree report — seventy counts that cherry species span.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Cherry is historically related to Wine.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, the gum of the cherry-tree dissolved in wine is given for a cold, cough, and hoarseness of the throat — cherry gum is dissolved into that wine.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Cherry is historically related to Plum.
In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, to hasten work, gum that exudes from the cherry or plum tree is cut small, steeped in water until it liquefies, strained through a cloth, and used to grind and lay colours.
from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century
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Cherry is historically related to Egg.
In Beeton’s Household Management, after boiling cherries for potting, jar tops are covered with tissue-paper brushed over on both sides with the white of an egg and kept dry.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Peach is used in Cherry.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, peach-stone kernels and cherry-stone kernels are set together in muscadel, dung-warmed, then distilled — the two kernels share one stone medicine for the belly and stone.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Roman religion
Cherry appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History seats cherry among orchard fruits and their Roman cultivation history. A named cherry in that encyclopedia, not apple as the broader orchard fruit already walked here and not a modern pie dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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Hellenic religion
Cherry Gum is historically related to Cherry.
Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants seats gums and tree exudates among plant juices, including gum that flows from stone-fruit and related trees in that handbook neighborhood. A named cherry-gum as Prunus exudate continuous with that botanical gum speech, not gum-arabic as the acacia gum already walked and not tragacanth as the astragalus gum already walked.
from Theophrastus · Enquiry into Plants, c. 300 BCE
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sources
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- The English Physician · Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (Complete Herbal).
- Book of Household Management · Isabella Beeton
Isabella Beeton, Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861).
- On Divers Arts · Theophilus Presbyter
Theophilus, On Divers Arts (De diversis artibus / Schedula diversarum artium).
- Enquiry into Plants · Theophrastus
Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants (Historia Plantarum).