: | JSperides by thefe three Names ; and | 
_ the Reafon why largely handled; 
1 
i RI peks 
Ferrarius hath Divided his He- 
Under thefe three Sorts and 
~ Kinds are all the Hefperial Trees 
Comprehended. 
The Citron Tree, broughtiout «4, 
of Media by, Paladins above Tree 
twelve Hundred Years ago, and 
Planted and Ordered a'sout Naples, 
isthe firftin Order, hathfomeof — 
- the fame kind, confifting of Sowre 
and Sweet. OF Digit 
_ The Sowre are only different 
in the outward Form and Shape ; 
for the one is Oval, Long, and — 
wife ufed by the Modern Writers, 
then. to Exprefs the three diftinet 
forts of Fruits, . 
Roundlike; the other Calabas Fafhi- 
on; and the other again of an ill- 
_ fhapen Form, 
The Sweet Citron Tree hath 
not fo much Variety; yer ‘tis 
2 se ba 
= Or Netherlandifh Hefperides. 
-  Bauhinus reckons them nine, But © Bad» 
above all Ferrarins makes them a- a ies 
all different from one «. 
: : Ferrare. 
another, and at this day known Hep. 
in Italy, and noted by none but zibr,3: 
bove fifty, 
“himfelf ; Only. fome few are but 
as yet and at this day known ‘in 
- our Gardens ; which we hall 
: hereafter decipher and defcribe in 
-. . order. 
The Orange ‘Tree was unknown Pinax: 
Lib rt, 
Sed. 6. 
tothe Ancients; and by Baubinus 
diftinguifhed into four forts, 
gr ee 
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At this day is the fame made Hep. 
known to us by Ferrarins under 4 
more kinds and are almoft all 
found in Netherland, yet the one 
~ ‘more fruitful chen theother; We 
_ fthall relate them orderly in their 
due place , and whatfoever 
fhall be further neceffary thereun- 
to . 
Here it might be ufefulto put 
down all the particular alterations, © 
changes 
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if 
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cS eens 
The Belgick; > 
‘ 
The Cruel Northern Storms fhe 
cannot refift, and the long Win- 
ter caufeth her merry Leaves to 
fall to the Ground, and loofe all 
the Beauty of her Head Attire: — 
and therefore itis better to leave - 
this tender one in her own Coun- 
try, then to make her dye for Sor- 
~ xow in this our hard Cowntry,and _ 
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fevere Climate. 
Arethufa, the Limon ‘Tree, \is 
ftronger, and will wich her Sifter | 
_Hefperthufa, the Orange Tree, 
thrive better in this Netherland ; 
and therefore we fhall more large- 
ly {peak of their feveral kinds; 
becanfe thefe two do above allo- _ 
ther Plants adorn our Belgick 
Fefperides. (Soy aes? 
The Limon Tree hath many forts ; 
aS Bauhinus. 
The Belgick, 
changes and forts which are obfer- 
ved by Ferrarius. hs 
But being he makes,many forts 
of fuch, as are but faulty in their | 
Growth, &we enly purpofe to de- 
{cribe thofe that are found here in 
our Netherlandifh Gardens,we have 
judged fuch long and tedious rela- 
lations unneceffary, 
CHAP. IV, 
Of the Firft Pribticers 
Or Inventors. 
% 7 E have touched: before, ; 
how that the (tron Tree 
(and perhaps others were brought — 
out of Media into Italy byPalladine, 
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Sgt 
to be Lamented, that the Intem- 
-perance of our Netherlandifh Cli- 
mate, doth not permitustoSet or 
Place glen in our Hefperides: 
