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The MEDLAR TREE. 



THE Medlar Tree (Mefplhs) is An- 

 gular in its production of a large 

 apple and pear-fhaped brown fruit, not 

 eatable until it affumes a flate of decay; 

 for while it remains firm and found it is 

 exceedingly auftere •, but ripening in Au- 

 tumn, becomes foft and palatable in 

 Winter ; the tree belongs to the clafs 

 and order Icofandria pentandria : Twenty 

 or more ftamina, and five flyles, in each 



flower. 



There is but one fpecies of the com- 

 mon Medlar, which, by the Botanifts, 

 is called 



Mefpilus Germamca } — Gzr max, or Com~ 



mon 



