The Belgick, or, Netherlandish hesperides that is, the management, ordering, and use of the limon and orange trees, fitted to the nature and climate of the Netherlands / by S. Commelyn ; made English by G.V.N.
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The Belgick, or, Netherlandish hesperides that is, the management, ordering, and use of the limon and orange trees, fitted to the nature and climate of the Netherlands / by S. Commelyn ; made English by G.V.N.
Author
Commelin, Johannes, 1629-1692.
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London :: Printed for J. Holford ..., and are to be sold by Langly Curtis,
1683.
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Fruit trees -- Netherlands -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Belgick, or, Netherlandish hesperides that is, the management, ordering, and use of the limon and orange trees, fitted to the nature and climate of the Netherlands / by S. Commelyn ; made English by G.V.N." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34122.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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descriptionPage 35
CHAP. X.
Of the little Calabrian Li∣mon
of Ferrarius.
THis Limon, Called of Fer∣rarius
Limon Pusillus Calaber,
or the little Calabrian Limon, af∣ter
her Country: hath its Boughs
full of little Prickles, the Leaves
have the Form at the end of the
Stalk, as that of the Orange Tree,
and are of a dark green Colour,
like that of the Laurus Leodmensis,
round about the Edges a little
jagged, the Blossoms are small,
without of a purple Colour, within
White, of a pleasant Smell: the
Fruits are of the bigness of a small
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Hen's Egg, of a Fashion Oval,
or Oblong, pointing out at the
End, as it were with a little
Horn: the Pill is of a fair yellow
Colour, Thin, pleasant of Taste
without, White within; the Pulpe
is divided by nine Veins or Parti∣tions,
of a greenish Colour, of a
sharp sowre Taste. This Fruit
have we gathered ripe in the
Month of August 1672, in the
Garden of Sieur Peter de Wolf in the
Purmer, and here described to the
Life: This Plant is very Fruitful,
and can well endure our severe
Air, without receiving any Inju∣ry
from it.
There is yet another of this
Sort or Kind, which is likewise a
pleasant Fruit; and I have a little
Tree of it in my Garden, and is
called of Ferrarius Limon Pusillus
Calaber alter, that is, the second
sort of the small Calabrian Li∣mon.
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The diversity consisting
herein, that this Fruit is in all parts
much smaller then the foregoing,
and may very well be taken for a
Dwarf, which shews itself plea∣sant
and delightsom to the Sight.
This little Tree hath very thin
tender Boughs, full of many
Prickles, the Leaves are of a small
Form, not unlike the Phyllerea, of
a dark green Colour: the Blos∣soms
are like them of the forego∣ing
Sort, but much smaller, as al∣so
the Fruits, which are of some∣what
a rounder Fashion, and fit to
be preserved in Pickle, being ve∣ry
pleasant for Food.