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The Natural Hiflory of the Book Vy 
The Bay-GraPE-TREE. 
oT HE Body of this Tree is confiderably large, though feldom growing 
- to any great Height, unlefs fhelter’d from the Wind; the Branches 
are many, but crooked and ftraggling: The Bark is of a whitith Grey. 
from the Extremities of the Branches hang pendulous Spikes, thickly a 
vered with very {mall Blofloms, which are fucceeded by a great Number of 
Grapes in Clufters: Thefe are round, and fmaller than the leaft red Cherry, 
and of a ruffet Purple when ripe; they have an agreeable Mixture in their 
Tafte of both {weet and poignant Acid; their Pulp, which is but fmallin 
Proportion to their Bignefs, furrounds a Stone or Kernel; thefe, if bruifed 
and fteeped in Wine, are looked upon to be a good Reftringent. The Tree 
grows beft in a loofe fandy Soil ; their Leaves are very broad and fleek, clofely 
embracing the Stalks, and neatly ftrewed with purple or red Veins; and even 
the whole Leaf, whilft young, is red. The Grapes fteeped in Water, and 
worked up with Sugar, make a very agreeable Wine. 
The Far Porx-TREE. 
HIS chiefly grows near the Sea-fide, in the Parifhes of Ss, Fofeph 
and Sz. Andrew. The Fruit is diftinguifhed into the white and red 
Sort. The Trees bearing each differ very little, if any thing, in their Tex. 
ture, Leaves, or Flowers; the main Body of the largeft exceeds not five 
or fix Inches in Circumference; the Leaves are of a middle Size, round- 
pointed, and fet on the Branches alternately; the Flowers are white, and 
very {mall the Petals are furrounded withagreen ftiff Calyx: Thefe are fuc- 
ceeded by Plums called here Fat Pork. The outfide Skin of one Sortis, when 
tipe, of a fine fcarlet Colour, faintly clouded over with a purplith glaucous 
Mealinefs, like that which covers Plums in England. The white Sort 
differs only in Colour ; for the pulpy Part of each cuts ftringy, or rather 
wooly, and is of a white Colour, not ill refembling, though lefs firm than, 
the Fat of Pork whilft warm. This Pulp hath a {weetifh Tafte, but toa 
great many difagreeable; this eatable Part covers a pretty large Stone, 
which inclofes a white Kernel, no-way difagreeable to the Tafte; the 
whole is full as large as our common black Plums in England. 
The Buack Woop. 
| HTS grows to be a large Tree, of an hard folid Texture; it derives 
its Name from the blackifh Colour of its Bark and Leaves; it theds 
yearly its Bark, which is very bitter; its Flowers are fucceeded by {mall 
Plums; the pulpy Part furrounding a Stone or Kernel, or fometimes two. 
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