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APPLE-TREE. 



HP HE Apple is juftly efteemed the 

 J belt fruit-tree in the world, for 

 the great value of its mod excellent 

 fruit, for numerous important domeftic 

 ufes all the year round, and compre- 

 hends varieties without end, all the off- 

 fpring of one original fpecies, which by 

 the botanifts is retained as a fpecies of 

 Pyrus, or Pear-tree, their mode of 

 bearing, and botanic characters of the 

 flowers, &c. being exactly fimilar; and 

 although the fruit differs in external 

 form, yet they perfectly convfpond in- 

 ternally; but the Apple, however, was 

 long confidered as a diftindt family, or 

 D 2 genus, 



