NATURAL HISTORY. 
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It has lately been introduced, with fuccefs, 
into the European gardens. The firfl: perfon 
who fucceeded in this attempt, was Monf. 
Le Cour, at Leyden, in Holland. From 
him, the gardens in England were firft fup- 
plied with this royal fruit. From its juice, is 
made a wine, almoll equal to Malmfey fack ; 
it will, likewife, intoxicate as foon.as the 
(Irongeft juice the grape affords. / 
GREAT AMERICAN ALOE. 
HE aloe is a plant, which has leaves 
X thick, and armed on the edges with 
fpines. The flower confifts of one leaf, which 
has fix parts at the top, like the hyacinth: 
the fruit is oblong, and divided into three 
cells ; in which are inclofed flat and femicir- 
cular feeds. In the curious gardens of Botany 
inEngland, there are near forty different forts, 
which are natives of both the Eafl and Weft 
Indies : but the moft curious aloe is brought 
from the Cape of Good Hope. Mod of 
the African aloes produce flowers annually, 
when grown to a I'ufficient fize, which 
is often in the fecond, and feldoin more than 
the third or fourth year after planting from 
off fetts : but the American aloes, which 
produce their flower-lletns moftly from the 
centre of the plant, feldom flower until they 
are of a confiderable age, and then but once 
during 
