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— Poet Virgil. 
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- CHAP.V. 
Of the Citron Tree, 
~ Hough the Citron Tree can- 
Mi not bring her fruit to perfes 
Gion in Netherland, yet we fhall 
vouchfafe her the firft place in this 
Hlejperides, in hope that fome may 
yet find out a better’ means to 
nurfe and raife up this tender Ag | 
pity ‘eae 
_ This Tree is ofa middling big- The fhape, | 
nefs, the Stems or Boughs are 
thin and weak, armed with many 
pricks. oe with us they are the 
ftronge 
reens of thofe.Kinds. The leaves 
- ~ fike thofe of the Bay tree, bur 
of all the forts of ever- 
much 
Or Netherlandith Hefperides. 9 
oo thitiwe may obferve therein. 
_a wonderful difplay of Nature, 
a Pane ; bignefs. and weight is 
not alike, but very different; in rep. 
Calabria they commonly weigh a 2 
~ from fix to nine pound: But’ a- “ * 
bout Genoa they have been feen, 
_ according to Ferrarius his faying of 
-abouc thirty: the outward Pill 
and Rind is of ‘a Gold. Colour - 
wrinkled and. fomewhat ‘Warty, 
_ the inward Pill is white and {weet, 
the Pulpe full of fowre Juice and 
Liquor, ftored with many long 
and roundlike Seeds and Ker. 
nels. * 08 | 
This Plant is brought out. of pigcr 
Medlia.into Italy, as we have faid, 
before, and is alfo defcribed bythe Fe. < 
The Citron Tree is called in La- C. Bau 
tin Malus Medica. B. P. Gitrium Ce 
Malus. Citria, in the Greek muaéx ‘teh 2. 
wndnt Malus Medica and Affyrias 
(oe hee ~~ <The 
ms 
8 OTe Belgie 
much larger, jagged on the edgés, 
of a deep green,ftrong {cent, and 
better tafte, the blofloms growat  — 
the end of the boughs, clofe to- 
gether, have thick flefhy Leaves, 
the out fide like Purple, the infide 
_ white, under the top light faffron 
coloured, and hairy, of a weak 
{cent ; firft fweetifh bur afterward — 
bitter in the Tafte; We fecherean 
Oval long and roundlike begin- | 
ning of the young Fruit in the mid- 
dle ‘of the Bloflom, without 
which fign they are unfruitful and 
falloff, they that hang fafter to 
the Tree produce no unfruithil 
— Excrefcence,but the fruits proceed 
from that Principle thereunto faft- 
MEE. MOS 1G c8 sity 
— Thefe Gtrons are Oval, long 
and roundlike, fwelled and thick 
in the middle, and fometimes din- 
ted, running fharp together at the 
end, and fometimes with — ; 
Boe me 
1 5 eine 
Zoe The Belgick 
» ‘The Gtron is which the Hebrews 
- call 142 Hadar, that is fair and 
goodly 5 and they ufe the fame in, 
_ making of green Bowers : For all 
_* they that are ofany abiliry among 
| them will not negle@ to get thele 
Fruits againft the Feaft of Taber: 
nacles to adorn the preparations 
therewith: For it is faid, Levit. 
23, Vigo. And ye fhall take you on 
the firft day boughs of Goodly Trees 
&c. This word Hadar’ is by the 
| Learned |in their Law taken for 
that, and among others alfo the 
Myrthus, Myrtle-Tree, which they | 
defire nor, except thtee Leaves 
ftand over againft one another in: 
the length of five inches at leat, 
thus, fatisfying their Superftition | 
without any certain Evidence of 
truth: Even as they fay that the 
Citron Apple was the Fruit which 
Adam did eat in Paradise againft the 
Command of God. iy 
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