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the greenftem, the other inorder tomake a well fhap'd Top, to fo 
beautiful aftem. The branches {prout forth from the middle, or in- 
trinfick part of the tree, one at once ; and that wrapt up fo clofe as. “tis 
rather like a Pike thana branch with leaves > and that Pike alwayes 
bends towards the Eaft ; but being opened by the Suns heat {preads 
the leaves abroad, at which time the outmoft or eldeft branch or | - 
{prig below withers and hangs down, and pulls with it the film that 
bears it, and {fo both it and the film’ which holds it upturn of aruffet 
colour and hang down like a dead leaf, till the wind blows them off 5 | 
by which time the Pike above is becomea branch, with all its leaves 
opened ; then comes forth another Pike, and then the next outmoft 
branch and film below, falls away as the former, and fo the tree STOWS 
fo much higher, as that branch took room, and { a pike and a dead} 
leaf, a pike anda dead leaf; till fhe be advanc’d toher full height, | 
which will not be till 100 years be accomplifhed : about thirty or 
forty years old, the will bear fruit, but long before that time, chan- <j 
ges her fhape, her belly being leffened partly by the multiplicity of |” 
roots, fhefhoots down into the earth (nature forefeeing how great a 
weight they were tobear, and how great a ftref they wereto fuffer, 
when the winds take hold of fo large a head, as they were to be 
crown'd with) and partly by thrufting out fuftenance and fubftance, 
to raifeand advance theftem or body (forout of this belly which is 
the ftore-houfe ofall this good it comes ) fo that now fhe becomes'ta- 
per, with no more Jeffening than a weil fhap’d arrow, and full out ag 
trait, her body then being ofa bright ATH colour, with fome dapples 
of green, the filmsa top retaining their fmoothnels and greennefs,only 
alittle vartation in the fhapé,and that isa little fwelling ‘near the place } 
that touches the ftem or body, not niuch unlike an Urinal, fo that the | 
{welling that was inthe body, is now raifed up to the films or skins 
above. But atthis age , the branches ftand not fo upright, as when | 
the tree was in her minority , but has as great beauty in the ftooping 
and declenfion, as fhe had tn the rifing of her branches, when her| 
youth thrufts them forth with greater violence and vigour , and yet 
they had then fome little {tooping near the points. And now there is 
an addition to her beauty by two green ftud, s,orfupporters, that rife 
out of her fides, near the place whére the films joyn to the tree, and 
they are about three foot long, {mall at the place from whence they 
grow, but:bigger upwards, purely green, and not unlike the Iron that 
Glafiers ufe to melt their Sawder with. 
| between thefetwo.of the fame height, on either fide the tree, a buth 
| upon which the fruit grows, which areof the bignel$ of large French 
_ 4be purple, they are ripe,and in a while fall down, and then the yellow 
| becomes purple, and the green yellow 5 and fo take their turns, till 
_ One grows on one fide of the tree, the other oti the othex fide, and 
grapes, fome green, fome yellow, fome purple, and wheit they cometo! 
€ tree gives over bearing. Thefe fruits we can hardly comeby | 
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emg offo great aheight, nor isit any gteat matter : for thetafteis | 
not pleafant 5 but the Hogs find them ver agreeable to their palats 
for thofe that eat ofthem grow fuddenly ie Thave feen an Negro | 
with two fhort ropes clime the tree , and gather the-fruit , about this 
7 time, 
