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XIX. Communication from Dr. THORNTON, Lecturer on 

 Medical Botany at Guy's Hofpltal, refpecling a fuppofea 

 Lufus Naturae now exhibiting in London. 



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N the firft volume of the Philofophical Tranfa&ions, 

 No. XXIX. publiihed November 1667, you have the fol- 

 lowing communication, entitled, 



" Some Hortulan Experiments about the engrafting of 

 Oranges and Lemons or Citrons, whereby is produced an 

 individual Fruit, half Orange and half Lemon, growing 

 together as one Body upon the fame Tree." 



We have here orange trees (faith the intelligence from 

 Florence), that bear a fruit which is citron on one fide and 

 orange on the other. They have been brought hither out 

 of other countries, and they are now much propagated by 

 engrafting. This was confirmed to us (fays the Editor of 

 the Tranfaclions of the Royal Society), by a very ingenious 

 Englifh gentleman, who aflerted, that himfelf not only 

 had feen, but bought of them, anno 1660, in Paris, 

 whither they had been fent by Genoa merchants ; and 

 that on fome trees he had found an orange on one branch, 

 and a lemon on another branch, (which is not fo remarks- 

 able as what follows ;) as alfo, one of the fame fruit, 

 half orange and half lemon ; and fometimes three quarters 

 of one, and a quarter of the other. 



In the third part of the Reports of the Board of Agri- 

 culture, among the foreign communications, we fee, with 

 equal pleafure and aftonifhment, an account of the Ameri- 

 can apple, which, by a peculiar mode of budding *, is 

 half fweet and half four, half white and half red, with' 

 out the lead confufion of the refpeetive halves. 



At Mr. Mafon's, florift, Fleet-ftreet, oppofitc the Bolt 

 and Tun, there is a production now to be feen half peach and 

 half nectarine. It has all the foftnefs and yellow down of 



» The manner in winch the extraordinary ncclarine-peach firft pro- 

 duced in this country was effected, was hy inferring the bud of one fruit 

 upon the flock bearing a different fort. 



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