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ledgmyfelfto be down-right lame, in the expreflion f yet rather 

 then you Qiall lofe all, I will indeavour to rcprefent fome of her beau- 

 ties, in inch faint expreffions as I have. A Slip taken from the body of 

 this plant, and fet in the ground, will not prefently take root, but the 

 Grown thatgrowes upon the fruit it felf will fooner come to per- 

 fection then it , and will have much more beauty all the time of 

 growing. In a quarter of a year, it will be a foot high, and then the 

 leaves will be about 7 or 8 inches long, which appear to your eyes 

 like Semi-Circles .-the middle being a little hollow, fb as I have (een 

 afrenchfword. that is made for lightnefs and ftrength. The colour 

 for themofi: part, froft upon green, intermixt with Carnation, and 

 upon edges of the leaves, teeth like thole upon Sawes, and thefe 

 are pure incarnadine. The leaves fall over one another, as they are 

 plac't higher on the ftem 5 the points of the lowelt, touching the 

 ground 5 in a quarter of a year more, you (liall perceive on the top 

 of theftem aBloffome, as large as the largeft Carnation, but of diffe- 

 rent colours^ very fmall flakes. Carnation, Crimfbn and Scarlet in- 

 termixt, fome yellow, fome blew leaves, and fome Peach Colour, 

 intermixt with purple, Sky colour, and Orange tawny,Gridaline, and 

 Gingeline, white and Philyamort. So that the Bloflbme may be 

 (aid to reprelent many of the varieties to the fight, which the fruit 

 does to the tafte, thefe colours will continuea week or ten dayes, 

 and then wither and fall away, under which there will appear a little 

 bunch of the bignefs of a Walnut which has in it all thefe colours 

 mixt,whichin the bloffome weredifperft^ and fo grows bigger for two 

 months more, before it (hews the perfed (hape, which is fomewhat of 

 an Oval form, but blunt at either end , and at the upper end, growes 

 out a Grown of leaves, much like thole below for colour, but more 

 beautiful j fome of the leaves ofthis Crown, fix inches long , the out 

 leaves, fhorter by degrees. This fruit is inclos'd with a rind, which 

 begins with a (crew at the fi:alk,and (bit goes round till it comes to the 

 top or Crown, gently rifing, which fcrew is about 4 of an inch 

 broadband the figures that are imbroydred upon that fcrew neer of 

 that dimenfion, and divifions between. And it falls out fo, as thole 

 divifions are never over one another in the forew, but are alwaycs 

 under the middle of the figures above, thofe figures do vary fo in the 

 colouring,as if you fee an hundred Pines they are not onelike another, 

 and every one of thofe figures has a little tuft or beard, fome of green, 

 fome yellow, fome Afh colour, fome Carnation .* There are two forts 

 of pines, the Ring and Qeen Pine .• The Queen is far more delicatCg 

 and has her colours of all greens, with their (liadowes intermixt, with 

 faint Carnations, but moft of all froft upon green, and Sea greens. The 

 King Pine, has, for the moft part, all forts of yellows, with their fha- 

 dowes intermixt withgrals greens, and is commonly the larger Pine. 

 I have foen fome of them 1 4 inches long, and fix inches in the diame- 

 tre 5 they never grow to be above four foot high, but the moft of them 

 having heavy bodies, and flender ftalks,lean down and reft upon the 

 ground. Some there are, that ftand upright, and have coming 

 out of the ftem, below, fome iprouts of their own kind, that bear 

 fruits which jett out from the ftem a little, and then rife upright, I 



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