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CHAP. I. PL A. an. 
' The Apple-service. 
T HIS fruit is here reprefented of its 
natural bignefs: it grows in clutters, 
or bunches, from three to feven or 
eight fruits in a bunch. Each feparate fruit 
appears like a little yellowifh green apple, 
tinged with red, on the tide which is 
expofed to the Sun. They are fprinkled 
with fmall rifmg brown fpots all over the 
rind, and have hollow crowns like apples ; 
but their (talks run a little into angles, as 
do the branches of the tree. While the 
fruit is unripe, it is very rough to the 
tafle; but, as it grows ripe, it becomes 
foft like a medlar, and turns of the fame 
colour 5 and then it is very agreeable to 
the palate. Thefe were in perfection at the 
latter end of September, and had five feeds 
like thofe of apples. One of the fruit cut, 
and a (ingle kernel, are (hewn at the 
bottom of the Plate, where the infide 
appears like that of an apple, except that 
the flefh inclines a little to a yellowifh 
colour. There are others fhaped like pears : 
I have alfo figured one of them, to (hew 
the difference : they feldom grow fo large 
as the round Apple-fervice, though they 
feem in every other refpeCt to be the fame 
fpecies of fruit. The larged Apple-fervice 
I could find weighed down an avoirdupoize 
ounce. 
Mrs. Blackwell has figured the Pear- 
fervice, (fee her Herbal, vol. I. pi. 174.) 
Theie Apple-fervices grew at Hammer- 
fmith, near London ; and many of them 
were brought to Covent-Garden Market, 
to be fold, in the year 1752, where I 
bought them. Yet they were not, at 
that time, known to our greateft Nurfery- 
Gardeners, nor to the curious Botanifts 
La CORME Ott SoRBE. 
E fruit eji reprefente ici de fa grojfeur 
naturelle : il croit par trochets , depuis 
trois jufqti d fept ou huit fruits. Chaque 
fruit fepare paroit comme une petite pomme 
d'un vert jaundtre , teinte de rouge du cote 
expoje au SoleiL Loute la peau en eji par - 
feme e de petites elevations brunes , et Vceil en 
eft enfonce comme celui des pommes ; mats la 
queue , aulieu d’etre ronde, eft de f orme angu~ 
laire, de me me que les branches de I’arbre . 
Tandis que ce fruit eft vert , il eft fort dpre 
au gout ; mais en meurijfant , il devient mou 
comme la nejjle , et prend la meme couleur ; 
alors il a un gout fort agreable . Ces Cormes - 
ci etoient dans leur perfection, vers la fin de 
Septembre ; elles avoient cinq pepins femb tables 
d ceux des pommes: on voit au has de la 
planche un pepin, et la coupe du fruits dont 
I’interieur paroit comme celui d’une pomme y 
excepte que fa chair tire un peu fur le 
jaundtre. Il y en a d’autres qui rejfemblent 
d des poire s j’en donne aufti la figure pour 
en faire fentir la difference: elles viennent 
rarement aujji groffes que les autres y quoi - 
quaurefie elles paroffent etre la meme forte 
de fruit. La plus groffe Corme de la premiere 
efpeces que j’aye pu trouver y pefoit une once 
poids de marc. 
Mad. Blackwell a donne la figure de la 
Corme enforme de poire , dans fon Recueil de 
Simples s tom. I pi. 174. Ces Cormes venoient 
de Hammerfmithy village pres de Londres: 
on en apporta une quantite au marche de 
Covent-Garden, en 1752, oil je les achetai . 
Cependant elles n etoient pas comities encore 
alors, de nos plus famcux Jardiniers , qui 
plantent des pepinieres , ni de nos plus curieux 
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