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ginto grow anew, and become 
> fully ripe in fixceen or eighteen _ 
Months after their blowing. 
The Fruits are ofan oval Shape, 
though fomewhar rounder; and 
More drawn in; of a pale yel- 
_ lowifh Colour, weak Sent, fome- 
what like the Citron Apple, and is 
__. by Art of Ordering and Dreffing 
brought fo fur in bignef3 and faire 
nels, that it needs not to give 
place to ic, and elpecially in varie- 
ty of Kinds, in which it is enlarg- 
ed and increafed by Sowing and 
_ Inoculating, 
The Limon Tree is diftinguifhed 
into Limon, Powrin, Adam's Apple, 
_ Paradife Apple, Limia, and Limas. 
The Limon Tree. js called in La- 
tin Malus Limonia; and the Fruit 
Limon in Greek, éeov. 
They which’are found in our ’ 
Netherlandith Gardens, fhall fol- A 
low in their Order. 
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fift of five, fix, or fomerimes of 
more Leaves, which, before they 
open, are of a purple Colour, 
and white within. The Fruits 
are indifferently bigg and large; 
of a different Shape, the one 
roundifh,tho long and round-like, 
and fome alfo Ill-fhapen: The 
outward Pill is of afair Yellow, 
fmooth, and of a pleafant Smell : 
The inward part of the Pill is 
thin, the Pulp greenifh Yellow, 
divided into eight or nine Veins or 
‘Partitions off a pleafant Taft, full 
of Juice and Liquor, common- 
ly hollow inthe midle, and doth 
bear very well. — 
In the Year 1670, I have cut 
inone day fourfcore ripe Fruits, 
Limons, of a little Tree ; fo that 
itis in all particulars worthy the 
Ordering and Husbanding. 
This Limon is called by the 
‘Managers and Practifers that Or- 
C3 dex’ 
a Shape. 
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Of the Ordering White. 
imon, 
A. Mong all the Limons, which 
~M here in this Country come _ 
to: Maturity, this is none of the 
leat. {HIVTOE fi by 
_ The Tree which produces this 
Fruit {preads its Boughs (which 
are fet with many Prickles in ma- 
ny places) wide afundér: The 
Bark: is pale, «the | Leaves ‘light 
Green, broad,running tound-like’ . 
together at the end? The fall 
Shoots are“fomewhat of a reddifh 
Colour;-whieh afterward become 
fairly Green; The ‘Bloffoms ve 
i obi The Belgick sb ¢ 
der. and-Husband thofe Plants and 
Fruits,the White Limon’: Andis the 
Limon, Vulgaris Ferrari, the com- 
. Mon Limon of Ferrariys. 
_oHathe feveral farts which dif- 
fer one’ from another in Shape, but 
little in Taft: the greateft Diffe- 
rence lying herein that the Leaves 
of the one are fomewhat more 
fharp Pointediand jagged then the 
other ; which alfo oblerved in the 
“Fruits, which differ and, are, di- 
ftinguifhed: from one another in 
length and roundnefs;, 
_. We haye at feveral times taken 
Notice, that the Fruits of one and — 
the fame Tree were very unlike 
' in Fafhion-and Shape one to the 
other, 
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