66 Silk-Cotton. Cotton. Fruits. 
An.i 6 f)<). jn March or April. , The Fruit or Pod is 
like a large Apple, and very round. The 
out- fide Shell is as thick as the top of ones 
Finger. Within this there is a very thin 
whitifh Bag or Skin which inclofeth the 
Cotton. When the Cotton- Apple is ripe 
the outer-thick green Shell fplits it felf into 
5 equal parts from Stemb to Tail, and drops 
off, leaving the Cotton hanging upon the 
Stemb, only pent up in its fine Bag. A day 
or, two afterwards the Cotton fwells by 
the heat of the Sun , breaks the Bag and 
burfts out, as big as a Man’s Head : And 
then as the Wind blows ’tis by degrees 
driven away, a little at a time, out of the 
Bag that ftill hangs upon the Stemb, and is 
fcatter’d about the Fields ; the Bag foon 
following the Cotton, and the Stemb the 
Bag. Here is alfo a little of the right 
Wejl-lndia Cotton Shrub ; but none of the 
Cotton is exported, nor do they make much 
Cloth of it. 
This Country produces great variety of 
fine Fruits, asvery good Oranges of 301*4 
forts ; (efpecially one fort of China Oran- 
ges 0 Limes in abundance, Pomgranets, 
Pomecitrons , Plantains, Bonano’s, right 
Coco nuts, Guava’s,' Coco- plumbs, (call’d 
here Munjheroi^^ W ild-Grapes, fuch as I 
' have deferib’d fVol. II. Parc 2. p- 46 •] 
befide fuch Grapes as grow in Europ. 
Here are alfo Hog-plumbs, Cufiard-Ap- 
pies, 
