A ihjUlogtcd ObJeYVAtim comerntng Orenges ai^d Limns, both 
fefarately and in one f iece f reduced on one mi the fame Tree 
Florence: Defcribedhy the Fhrentin Phyfitian Petrus Natus ^ 
and the dejcription lately commmicatedto the Pubttjher. 
THis Tree was, about 30 years fince, firft met with in a Grove 
near Florence ; having an Orenge-ftock, which, it feems, was 
fo grafted upon, that thence it becanie,in its branches, leaves, flow- 
ers and fruitjihree-formed, f jme emulating Orenge, fome Limons or 
Citrons, fome partaking of both forms in one. And particularly 
as to the fruit,fome of this Tree are meer Orenges,yet fome of them 
of an oblong fliape like Limons, fome round like common Orenges, 
fome between both : Others tafle like genuin Orenges, others have 
an Orenge fliell, but a Limon pulp. Mofl: are of a very ftrong fcent 
andafliellof a very bitter tafle* But then the fame Tree bears 
alfoa kind ofCitron-Limon,yet not fo many as of the former kind. 
And not only fo, but ic produces alfoa fruit, that is in one both 
Limon, Citron and Orenge, fo as youmayfeeoutwardly two forts 
of fruit reprefented in one piece J one, Citron- Li men 5 the other, 
Orenge. But this fruit is fo diverfified, that fome of them are half 
Citron-limon,half Orenge; others have two thirds of Citron- limon 
and one of Orenge ; others, the contrary : And of all thefe, fome 
are oblongj fome round, fome bunchy ; fom.e fmooth,f )me rugged; 
fome fmall, fome of the bignefs of two pound weight. Their flefli 
is fo diftinguifht, that where the Orenge- pulp ends,that of Limon 
begins, and on the contrary. Again,the Orenge- pulp is narrower 
than that of Limon s but this is tenderer than that , not fo agreea- 
ble to the tafte as the genuin fingle fruit. And , which is none of 
the leaft remarkable things, they have either none, or very few, or 
empty feeds ; concerning which the Author gi veth this reafon, that 
fince this Tree is of the infititious kind, nor can be repaired or 
propagatedby feed, therefore nature was not at all follicitous in 
the generation of the feed. 
If you inquire about the firfi original of this Tree, our Author 
inquires, Whether it have grown by planting Orenge and Citron- 
Limon feed together, and by uniting their young fiems clofe to one 
another 5 or, whether by inoculating Orenge upon a Citron-Limon 
fiock? Which latter he affirms, faying, (hat by the marriage of 
thefc Trees, repeated for many years it was come topafs, that by 
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