"G talehnepe ee 
‘Bloffoms are mixed throughout 
with purple Streaks, of a {trong 
Smell like them of the Citron Tree : 
* the Fruit is Oval or longith 
Round, fharp atthe End, with 
along Point fticking out, almoft 
like the Nipple of a Womans 
Breft) behind, where they be 
faft to the Stalk, deepdinted ;the 
outward Pill or Shell is deep Yel- 
low, Rough, Uneven, and of a 
bitter Taft, though noc of an un- 
pleafant Smell ; the inward Pill is 
almoft a Finger breadth thick, 
pale-Yellow, and Bitterifh ; the 
Sik The Belgick 
him look Unpleafant:’ We judge 
this to be the firft’ Limon: Liguitis 
cus of Herrarius, as agreeing there- 
with in many Particulars. This 
Tree doth blow very freely, which 
continues. almoft all the Year. 
long, and we are neceffitated to 
pluck off the Blofloms, to the 
end the Tree may’ keep: his _ 
Strength and Vigour. The fame 
is related by the forementioned 
Author alfo of the fecond Sort, 
called by him Limon Liguria Cee 
_ riefous, which produces both Blof= © 
foms: and Fruits four’ times in:a 
Pulpe have we found to be divi- Wosbee te 4 
ded by nine Veins or Partitions, 
Sowre, Sharp, and Harfh. This 
Fruit grows Large; and J have | ceo ‘ ech 
had them Ripe often: That - . Sati.’ 
which makes this Tree not belo- Pissed 
ved, is the Tendernefs thereof ; 
for he often fheds and loofes his 
Leaves in the winter, which makes : 
: D2 him 
CHAP. 
‘, : \ ‘ ' : is ae 2 — - a a2 er Bie 
Or Netherlandifh Hefperides. 43 44 The Belgick = | 
; gic iene Ss cular Stalk whereunto the Leafe 
feems to be faftned: The Blo 
fom is of a purple-like Colour, 
like that of the Citron Tree; the 
CHAP. XI I}. sherk: | Fruit we have. feen ripe in the 
: 1 ts Year 1672 ; is of a longifh Fafhi- 
C f ihe Pear-F afbion Limon on, extuberating or rifing in the 
| of Ferrarius," 
- Middle, and runs again fomewhar 
narrow downward, and above 
at the Stalk fomewhat thick, 
where the fame is a little dinted 5 
the outward Pill is Yellowith, 
rough with {mall Bumps and 
Knobs, the inward Pill thin, and 
» the Pulpe great or biga ,) full of 
Juice, of a yellowith Colour, di- 
vided by nine Veins or Partitions, 
_ Where we found fome beginnings 
of Seed, the Taft was very plea- ° 
fant, between Sowerand Sweer ; 
E, have among many o- 
“ther Limons from Genoa 
received alfo this moft’ pleafant rf.13. 
Plant ; being the Limon perelle Cons «11. 
fimilis of Ferrarius,. very. like the : 
fame, or aKind and Sort thereof,- © 
becaufe there is fome difference in 
the Defcription of it. 
This Tree hath tender and lit- Sheps 
tle Boughs and Branches ; the 
Leaves are of a pale Green, fharp- 
pointed at the End, the Edges 
jagged, and behind at the Enda 
thin longifh little Hart, asa parti 
: a cular 
This above-mentioned Limon — | 
Fruit we have fir gor from the 
Sieur Loot, Senator in the Coute | 
Provincial at Utrecht, who hath a - 
fair 
