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.
Publication
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 June 14, 2024.

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Page 57

CHAP. XVIII.

Of the sweet Orange Apple.

* 1.1THE Tree which bringeth forth sweet Oranges, is in Shape not to be distinguished from the Sowre, the Difference lyes on∣ly in the Fruit, which hath a thin, smooth, deep Yellow, and bitter outside Pill; the inside Pill is mo∣derately Thick, of a Brimstone Colour, the Pulpe is full of sweet and pleasant Juice, divided into eight Partitions, by particular Skins or Films; this Juice returns not back again after the Winter, as that of the sowre Orange, but is much longer kept therein.

Page 58

* 1.2Ferrarius writes, that the Gar∣diners about Genoa have experien∣ced, that the place where this Tree is planted or set, is much to be regarded, if it stands well to the Sun, that then the Fruit shall be of a pleasant sweet Tast; but if the place be shady, on the con∣trary Unpleasant, and all shall seem to turn or change into Bit∣terness.

* 1.3Because the mixed Orange Ap∣ples are not to be distinguished by the outward or inward Form, but only by the Tast; it is thought needless to give a particular De∣scription of them.

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