i 2 | Or Netherlandith Hefperides, 5 e 
elo re A 
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* eeneS 5 Pay ee Pe as geet 
‘GHAP. XXV._ 
Of the Orange Tree with 
freer bill, 
ah HE {weet pilled Orange Shales 
Tree produces gréat: and) 
thick Boughs; thé Leaves are 
large, thick, hard, and: fhorter 
then they of thé commégn fort, of 
a dark green Colour ; the Blof& 
fomsare large, and fpréad them- 
’ felves broad and wide out, anda 
boundin Multitude; the Fruit is 
great and weighty ; the outward 
part of the Pill of a fair Saffton 
yellow Colour,. pleafantly Bitter 
the inward part of the Pill-is fole 
lid and thick,, of \a pleafane fweet 
ie Bitter? 
Or Netherlandifh Hefperides. 75 
_ The Brabanders wrongfully 
call this Apple, Pomun Adami , 
\ ‘ 
Adam's Apple, as may be pere  ¢ 
ceived by the Delfcription of the 
right given in the fifteenth Cha4- 
ter of this Book. Eig 
CHA PB 2S XVI. 
Cf the Orange Tree with 
Small Fruit, 
His {mall Orange Tree is Hepa: 
NE a a 
ee 
- called by Ferrarins Aurantie cap. 15. . 
. : C.B 
nm Sinenfe, and is the Malus Aus 
ats 
hin. Pin 
rantia humilis of Baubinus and Clue nax.t.11. 
fius,commorly called the Dwarf ; 5° & 
it hath little {hort thick Boughs Shape. 
- ¢lofely growing together. 
The Leaves are like thofe of 
E r3 the 
a 
-* The Belgick 7 
Bitternefs ( whence it is originally 
called the {weet-pill’d Orange Ap; | 
ple; ) the Pulp is of a brimftone 
Colour, and moderately Sowre 
of Taft, divided by particular 
Skins or Films into nine Partiti- 
 Ofis. re 
Hep. 
Lib. 4. 
Cap. 16. 
C. Bau- 
hin, Pi- 
nax.1.11. 
Sef. 6. 
Of the Pulp, outward and in- 
ward Pill of this Apple tempered 
together with Sugar, is an excel- 
lent Remedy made againft the Di- 
feafes of the Stomach as ‘Ferraris 
reports of it. 
And this Tree is by him firft 
called, Aurantium dulci Cortice, that 
is, the Orange with the fweet 
Pill; and is the Malus: aurantia 
cortice dukci Eduli. B. P. & Cluf. 
Hift. The Orange Tree with fweet 
Pill * and certainly worthy to be 
_Husbanded, aswell in refpe@ of 
76 
the Fruity as alfo of the LuftinefS 
of the Tree, which is fufficient- 
ly Luxuriane in Growing. 
The | 
The Belgick 
the common Orange Tree; but 
in all their Parts much fmaller, 
and fharp forward. | 
- The Bloffoms ( which it pro- 
duces in abundance, ) are alia 
it were , compacted and in Cluft- 
ets; and are in Form like unto: 
 thefe of the other Sorts, though 
not fo large. 
The Fruit is of the bignefS of 
9a Walnut ; the outward Pill is of 
-aGold Colour, not very Bitter, — 
the inward Pill thin; and the 
Pulp is diftinguifhed into eight 
Parcels; ofa pleafant fowre Taft, 
This Plant is very delightful to 
the Eye, and that in refpect of — 
its abundant Fruifulnefs, which is 
alfo the caufe of its being fhort- 
Lived, if ye do not paovide a- 
gainft it, by taking away the fa- 
- perfluous Bloflomsand Fruits. 
~ Hithérro now-have we been 
bufted:to deferibe all forts of . 
Fruits, 
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