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CHAP, XVI. 
3 tramonium. 
Horn- Aple is of two forts,a greater and a leffer, the firft 
rifech up with a ftrong round ftalk four or five foor 
_ high, fpreading at the joynts into many branches , fer 
a with large dark green cornered leaves, cut and jag- 
he: ged about the edges; at the joynts come forth large 
Bell-fathioned white flowers, which are facceeded by great round and 
| fomthing prickly Thorny green heads, which being ripe, open into 
three or four parts, and difcover a great quantity of blackifh flat feeds’ 
within them; theroor dies in Winter’, and new Plants often come 
up of its own fowing, 
There is another, little differing from this, but chat the flowers are 
of a light purple colour, | ei Ponts pee oe} 
The leffer Thorn- Aple differeth from the former , in that it is lower 
and much leffer in all the parts thereof; the leaves are {mooth and 
rent at the edges, and the ftalks without branches ; the flowers come 
forth at the joynts like the other, not fo big, but more beautiful, 
white in colour, and like a Bell in fafhion; the Aples or heads that 
contain the feeds are leffer, rounder and harder than thofe of the grea- 
ter kind ; therootdies at.the frit appearance of Winter, : 
We talk much of two other varieties of this leffer kind , the one 
bearing flowers ingeminated, or hofe ix hofe , one coming out of the 
other; and another that isdouble, confifting of two or more rows of 
leaves rifing equally together ; I have feen the figures of both thefe 
well cat in Brafs, in two or three Books of Flowers Printed in Forein 
Countries, and it is like that fuch there are in thofe parts, but Iam 
pie: they were never feen in England , otherwife than in 
picture. 
_ For that with fingle flowers will hardly flower with us, andif ir do : 
it is fo late that it feldom yieldeth any good feeds, the greater kind is 
common and will grow any where, the fitteft place is in an Orchard 
or KitchensGarden, for it takes moreroom than the Plant deferves, 
CHAP 
