A True and ExaB Hiflory 



Lemon. 



Lime-tree. 



Prickled ap- 

 ple. 



Trickled 

 Tekr. 



The Lemon tree is much better ftiap'dand larger, but this fruit is 

 but here and there, ftragling in the Ifland. I have feen fbme of the 

 fruit large^and very full of juice^with a fragrant irnell .• the leavp both 

 ofthefeand the Orange trees,! (hall not need to mention being fo well 

 known m England, ,; " ! 



•The Lime tree is like a thick Holly bufli in E?;^/^;?^/, and as full of 

 prickles ; if you make a hedge of them, about your houfe/tis fiifEcient 

 proof againft the Negroes 3 whofe naked bodies cannot poffible enter 

 it, and it is an extraordinary fare fence againft Cattle , it commonjy 

 grows feven or eight foot high, extreamly thick of leaves and fi-ui^: , 

 and of prickles 5 the leaves not unlike thofe of a Lemon tree, the fruit 

 fblikeasnottobediicerned, at the diftance of three yards , but only 

 that 'tis lefs, but in the tafte of the rind and juice, extreamly diffe- 

 rent, much fitter for fauce than the Lemon 5 but not fp gpod to eat 

 alone. 



The Prickled apple, grows on a tree extreamly thick leavd , and 

 thofe leaves large, and of a deep green, fhaj^'d pot much unlikci the 

 leaf of a Wallnut tree in England : this fruit Cbap d like the heart of 

 anOxe, and much about thatbignefs 5 a faint green on the outfide, 

 with many prickles on it, the tafte very like a piuftieLempn, / 



The next in order, (hall be the prickled pear, much purer in tafte 

 and better form'd^ the fruit being not unlike in ihape^to a. Greenfield- 

 pear, and of a faint green, intermixt with Tome yellow near the ftalk 5 

 but the body of a mixtred, partly Crimfbn , partly Stammell , with 

 prickled fpots of yellow ^ the end of jt growing fomewhat Jacr 

 ger than the middle , at which e;nd , is a round fpot pf , a irptirrey 

 colour, the brcdth of an inch, and circular with a . Centra in the 

 middle, and a fmall circle about it and .from fhat circle within, line«i 

 drawn to the utmoft extent of that^ round. Murrey Ipot, with faint 

 circles between the fmall circle and the largeft , upon that Murrey 

 fpot. - ' , 



Thefe lines and circles , of a colour no mqre different in light- 

 ne(s from the murrey, than only to be difcerned, and a little yellower 

 colour. 



The Pomegranate is a beautiful tree the leaves fmall , with a green 

 mixt with Olive colour, the bloflbm large, well fhap'd, and of a pure 

 Scarlet colour 5 the fruit not fo large there , as thofe we have from 

 Spain, The young trees being fet in rows, and planted thick make 

 a very good hedge, being dipt even a top with Garden (hears. The 

 fruit is very well known to you, and therefore I fhall need fay nothing 

 of that, and thefe are all the remarkable fruits that grow on trees , 

 and.are proper to this Ifland, that lean remember, though I believe 

 thefe are many more, 



The Papa is but a fmall tree, her bark of a faint willow colour, her 

 leaves large, and of the fhape of the Phy fick nut tree, but of the colour 

 of her own bark, the branches grow out four or five of one height, and 

 fpread almoft level, from the place where they bud out 5 to the ends 

 of th^ branches, and about two foot higher, fiich other branches fprea- 

 ding in the fame manner, and if t"he tree grow to a greater height than 

 ordinary, a ftory or two more of thefe bows : the top handfomely 



form'd 



