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Sweet orange-trees (which have been 

 brought to Europe by the Portuguese) were 

 found bearing good large fruit : and it was 

 faid, that they came to ftill greater per- 

 fection in Fockien and about Amoy. Here are 

 feveral forts; fome of the fize of a walnut, 

 others of the fize of an apple, others were an- 

 gular and reddifh, Sec. In a few places only, 

 I found thofe trees placed in fome order, in 

 rows, and managed as they ought to be. But, 

 if they were guarded from ftrong winds, they 

 fuccceded without any further care, and bore 

 fruit plentifully. Fockien and £>uantung are 

 obliged to fend annually a confiderable quan- 

 tity of fruit to the court at Pckin. 



Leicki is a fpecies of trees which they 

 feemed to reckon equal to the fweet orange 

 trees ; there are feveral forts of it, fuch as 

 great, fmall, and wild ones. The fruit was 

 of the fize of nutmegs, furrounded with a 

 coarfe, knobby, reddilh (hell, and growing in 

 bunches like grapes. The trees grow as high 

 as pear-trees, and are furnimed with narrow, 

 cufpidated, prickly leaves : they preferve the 

 berries dried, and eat them as raifins* It 

 feeras hardly credible, that the country about 



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