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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CHAP. XXIII.
Of several Ill-shapen Fruits.
THere are found by Ferrarius
several Orange Apples,
which are noted by him as di∣stinct
Sorts and Kinds, as the Au∣rantium
dulci flore; Aurantium faemi∣neum,
sive Faetiferum, & Aurantium di∣stortum,
all which I judg to be
but one and the same, belonging
to the foregoing Tree, viz. with
the horned Fruit; for I have seen
the same, and yet more different
Shapes upon one Tree, also double
Blossoms; for that happens often,
and all this Variation of the Shape
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is nothing but a Display of Na∣ture.
We have observed the more
the Blossom is doubled, and the
more Leaves it hath, that the
Fruit appears also in the stranger
Shape; and touching the Auranti∣um
Callosum we have found on the
common Orange Tree.
The same must also be Under∣stood
of the Limons, as I have
shewed before in the ninth Chap∣ter
of this Book, in the Limon
Sbardonius; so that in all this Va∣riation,
there are no several sorts
to be made, but must only be
taken for Ill-shapen Fruits.
Here might have been shewed
the Diversity and Variety of im∣perfect
Fruits, but it seemed need∣less
to us, and judg that by this
Observation is sufficiently shew∣ed
what we are to think of such
Fruits▪