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226 NATURAL HISTORY, 
ties. The plant is herbaceous, and has leaves fome+ — 
what refembling thofe of the aloe. Lhe fruit, which — 
is like the cones of the pine tree, is fuppofed to have © 
been the caufe’of its name. ‘lhe place of its nativity ” 
is not determined: It was, however, firft brought © 
from the Eaftindia factories, and planted in the hot- | 
teft iflands inthe Weitindies, where it fucceeded fa 
well, as to afford now a moft plentiful produce. It 
has lately been introduced, with fuccefs, into the? 
European gardens. The firft perfon who fucceededyy 
in this attempt, was Monf. Le Cour, at Leyden, in@ 
Holland. From him, the gardens in England were} 
firft fupplied with this royal fruit. From its juice, is 
made a wine, almott equal to Malmifey fack ; it will, 
likewife, intoxicate as {oon as the ftrongeft juice the 
grape affords. , 



DENCH : 
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GREAT AMERICAN ALOE. 
Tre aloe 1s a plant. ‘which has leaves thick, and i 
armed on the edges with ipines. The flower confifts 
of ghe leaf which has {ix parts at the top, like the hy- — 
acinth: The fruit is oblong, and divided into three © 
cells ; in which are enciofed fiat and femicircular ~ 
feeds. Inthe curious gardens of Botany in England, 
there are near forty different forts, which are natives — 
of both the Eaft and Weft Indies: But the moft cu: — 
rious aloe is brought from the Cape of Good Hope. q 
Moft of the African aloes produce flowers annually, — 
when grown toa fufficient fize, which is often in the % 
fecond, and feldom more than the third or fourth © 
year after planting from off fets: But the American — 
aloes, which produce their flower ftems moftly from © 
the centre of the plant, feldom flower until they are 7 
of a confiderable age, and then but once during the ~ 
