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25(? FAMILY HERBAL, ^ 



it deserves io be, I have experienced excellent 

 effects from it. 



The Ohange Tree. Aurantia mains. 



A BEAUTIFUL and valuable tree, native of 

 .Spain, Italy^, and the East. It grows io a consider^ 

 able bi^ness^ and its branches spread irregularly. 

 The bark of the trunk is brown and roughs that 

 of the branches is smooth and greyish. The leaves 

 are large, and very beautiful; they are oblong, 

 and moderately broad^ and the foot stalk has an 

 edge of a leafy matter on each side, giving it 

 a heart-like appearance. The flowers are white^ 

 large, fragrant, and very beautiful. The fruit 



if enough known. 



The sont, dr Seville orange, is tlie kind used in 

 medicine, but the peel of this more than the juice 

 or pulpy parti A pleasant syrup is made of Seville 

 orange juice, by melting in it twice its weight 

 jOf the finest sugar ; and a syrup equally pleasant^ 

 though of another kind, is made of an infusion of 

 thepeel : butthe great use of the peel is in tinc- 

 ture, or infusion as a stomachic. It is for this 

 puipose to be pared off very thin, only the yellow 

 |)art being useful, and to be put into brandy or 



Wine, or to have boiling water poured on it fresh 



or dry. If a little gentian and a few cardainon 

 seeds be added to this tincture or infusion, it is as 

 good a bitter as can be made ; it prevents sickness 

 of the stomach and Tomi tings, and is excellent 

 to amend the appetite. 



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A VERY beautiful wild plant> of a foot high 

 6T more, with fresh green leaves^ and tiifts of 



