7 Seas mee Pidaee os RE EET, 
Or Netherlandifh Hefperides. . 
Country, in which golden Ap- 
pels grow and. axe produced, which 
_ is Guarded by the ever waking 
and) vigilant Dragon, | 
The moft common: Opinion is, 
that the Garden of Hefperides was 
opia, or the Mores, Country,.»where 
| : Scituated in the Weft Part of Lithie Bervavic 
Lib. He~ 
now arethe Kingdoms of Fetz and * * 
Marocco, about the old River and 
City of Lixo; and here is, accord- 
ing to the Opinion of many, the 
_ Native Country of the He/perial 
Fruits. 
Of the City of Marocco is it thus 
Written; Near the Walls of the 
’ 
O. Dap- : 
per’s: A- 
Pallace,about half an Hours Jour- fisca.. 
ny from the City, lyes a Noble 
Pleafant Orchard, or Garden of 
Pleafure belonging to the King, 
Called Montferat, planted with a- 
bove fifty Thoufand LimonTrees, 
andthe fame Number of Orange 
Trees, fo that it is notftrange that 
thefe 
Ferrari: thefe Count 
- Hefp.l. 9- 
de Cit. 
<< The Belgick, 
ries and Regions are 
fuppofed the Garden of Hefpes 
rides. ~ 
By the Diligence of Paladins 
are the Citrons brought over out 
of Media and Perfia' into Italy 
2 
~ ~there: Ordered and Raifed ; and 
thence carried further into Spain, 
Portugal, and other Countries, till: 
at laft our Belgium, or Netherland 
got its part and fhare.n 
Tho now atthat time the dif- 
ferent Variations and Kinds of Li- 
mons, Citrons, and Oranges are 
many, which is caufed by the Na- 
vigation of the Spaniards, Portus 
gees, who have brought feveral 
Be 
3 
ftrange Sorts and Kinds into Ene 
rope. ‘ 
That both the Indies are plen- - 
tifully provided and ftored with’ - 
this Fruit, Teftify the Deferipti- 
ons of thofe who have Travelled 
through thofe Countries, 
Linfchoten 
3 The Belgick, 
Ur Nethetlandifh Hefperides, ay 
Linfchoten faith, That in Guineaare Cop. 49% 
Limons, Citrons, | and efpecially 
very Toothfom Oranges ; and in 
China there are Oranges that are 
beyond Sugar in Sweetnefs, 
_ Baldews in the Defcription ‘of 
(eilon, That there are . the beft 
Oranges, Limons, and Citrons, 
~ which excell others of the whole. 
Indies; yea, even thofe of Spain 
and Portugal, whither, as is {aid, 
they are brought by Navigation ; 
_ and therefo Multiplyed, Raifed, 
and bred, that thefe ‘Trees feem 
to be become a Native and In- 
_ landifh Plant ; and asthe daily Ex- 
_ perience alfo fheweth by the 
Sreat quantities of the Fruits which 
yearly are brought to us out of 
thofe Countries, \ 
And except the Ancients had in 
fome meafure pointed out unto us 
the place of the Garden of Hefperi« 
des; who would 
have ventured 
Bs 9 
A Lake to place it any where, but along — 
in Italy 
not far, 
from 
Brizia. 
the Coaft of the Mediterranean 
Sea: and efpecially the fruitful 
Benacus, from whence our Hefperi- 
des muft be brought with great 
Diligence and Pains into’ our 
» Country. 
: of the Kinds 
ids 
CHAP. IIL. 
of the’ Fruits 
‘in General, 
A, Ccording to the Number of 
LY the Hejperial Virgins are 
their Fruits Divided. | 
Ziglen, the Citron Tree ; Aves 
* thufa,the Limon Tree ; Hefperthu- 
_ fa, the Orange Tree. 
This Appellation is no other- 
wile 
