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Fruit and ; flowers are allowed to be the most 

 beautiful of vegetable productions : the 

 forms of most kinds of fruit are round, or 

 oval, or at least are composed of swelling 

 curves without any angles ; as they ripen, 

 their form and colour gradually attain their 

 perfection ; and, no one doubts, that when 

 ripe, that is, when in their most perfect 

 state, they are most beautiful to the eye. 

 In flowers, the extremities of the leaves are 

 cut into an infinite diversity of shapes, 

 many of which are strongly angular, and 

 and distinguished (as similar leaves in trees 

 are,) by the terms sawed, and jagged ; 

 but the general form of the most admired 

 among them, presents, a swelling outline: in 

 them nature seems to act upon a small, as 

 she does in trees on a large scale ; for those 

 trees, the particular leaves of which are di- 

 vided into angles, have often as varied un- 

 dulation in their general outline, as most 

 others of the deciduous sorts. 

 . I may here observe, that there is as much 

 analogy as their different natures may be 



