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ledg my felf to be down-right lame, in the expreffion 5 yet rather 
then you thall lofe all, I will indeavour to reprefent fome of her beau- 
ties, infuch faint expreffions as I have. A Slip taken from the body of 
this plant, and fet in the ground, will not prefently take root, but the 
Crown that growes upon the fruit it felf will fooner come to per- 
fection then it 3 and will have much more beauty all the time of 
growing, In a quarter Of a year, it willbea foot high, and then the 
leaveswill be about 7 or 8-inches long, which appear to your eyes 
like Semi-Circles: the middle beinz a little hollow, fo as I have feen 
a french fword, that is made for lightnefs and ftrength. ._The colour 
for themoft part, fro{t upon green, intermixt with Carnation, and 
upon edges of the leaves, teeth like thofe upon Sawes, and _ thefe 
are pure incarnadine. The leaves fall over oneanother, asthey are 
plac’t higher onthe {tem 5; the points of the loweft, touching the 
| ground ;ina quarter of a year more, you fhall perceive onthe top 
of the ftem a Bloffome, as large as the Jarge{t Carnation, but of diffe- 
rent colours, very {mall flakes, Carnation, Crimfon and Scarletin- 
termixt, fome yellow, fome blew leaves, and fome Peach Colour, 
intermixt with purple, Sky colour, and Orange tawny,Gridaline, and 
Gingeline, white and Philyamort. Sothat the Bloflome may be 
faid to reprefent many of the varieties to the fight, which the fruit 
does to the tafte, thefe. colours will continuea week or ten dayes, 
{and then witherand fall away, under which there will appear a little 
bunch of the bignefs of a Walnut which has in it all thefe colours 
mixt, which in the blofiome were difperit; and fo grows bigger for. two 
months more, before it fhewsthe perfect thape, whichis fomewhat of 
_|an Oval form, but bluntat either end 5 and at the upper end, growes 
out a Crown ofleaves, much like thofe. below for colour, but more 
beautiful ; fome ofthe leaves ofthis Crown, fix inches long 5; the out 
leaves, fhorter by degrees. Thisfruit is inclos’d with a rind, which 
begins witha {crew at the ftalk,and foit goes round till it comesto the 
top or Crown, gently rifing, which {crew is about 4 of an inch 
broad;and the figures thatare imbroydred upon that {crew neer of 
‘that dimenfion, and divifions between. And it falls out fo, as thofe 
divifions are neverover one another in the fcrew, but are alwayes 
under the middleof the figures above, thofe figures-do vary foin the 
colouring,as if you fee an hundred Pines they are not one like another, 
and. every one of tho(e figures hasa little tuft or beard, fome of green, | 
fome yellow, fome Afh colour, fome Carnation : There are two forts 
of pines, the Kingand Qeen Pine - The Queen is far more delicate, 
and has her colours of all greens, with their fhadowes intermixt, with 
faint Carnations, but moft of all froft upon green, and Seagreens. The 
King Pine, has, for the moft part, all forts of yellows, with their fha- 
dowes intermixt with graf greens, and is commonly the larger Pine. 
LT have {een forme ofthem 14 inches long, and. fix inches in the diame- 
tre ; they never grow to be above four foot hi h, but the moft of them 
having heavy bodies, and flender ftalks, lean dovvn and reft upon the 
round. Some there are, that ftand upright, and have coming} ~ 
on ofthe ftem, belovv, fome fprouts of their own kind, that bear} 
| fruits which jett out from the {tem a little, and then rife upright, I 
ee Be gat: ; have 
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