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and beautiful, of a pale flefh Colour. The Fruit 
* is of the Shape of a Pear, and has a large Crown: 
Be Tt3s yellow when ripe, and of a pleafant Smell - 
Its Tafte is auftere, but agreeable. The Seeds 
are foft and mucilaginous. — 
_. The Fruit and Seeds are ufed. The Juice of 
the ripe Quince made into a Syrup with Sugar, is 
excellent to ftop vomiting, and to. ftrengthen the 
Stomach. ‘The Seed, Bored ii Water, gives ita 
Softnefs, and mucilaginous Quality, and it is an 
_ excellent Medicine for fore Mouths, and may be 
ufed to foften and moiften the Mouth and Theoat 
in Fevers. 
Re: 
The RapisnH. 
RAPHANUS. 
2 ——_ Plant in our Gardens, the Root of 
,** which is eaten abundantly in Spring. _ In this 
State we only: fee a long and flender Root, of a 
_ purple or fcarlet Colour, (for there are thefe Vari- 
 eties) mingled with white; from which grow a 
~ Quantity of large rough Leaves, of a deep green _ 
Colour, and irregularly divided: Amidft thefe in _ 
Summer, rifes the Stalk, which is a Yard high, — 
round, and ve much branched. The Leaves 
: faces than thofe from the Root.- 
_ The Flowers are very numerous, {mall andwhite, 
— with fome Spots ceca? The Pods are thick, 
- Tong, and fpungy. — : 
The Juice of the Radifh Roots freth gathered, 
~ with a little White Wine, is an excellent Reme 
- againft the Gravel. Scarce any Thing ’ operates 
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