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the Eighth'$ re{gn, when, with h?s, it may' be fiid to come fir? into Engla?:d? ?or tho' it wan known here long before that time, and tho' �eve- ral gentlemen, who delighted in gardening ?lanti?, endcavoar'd to ?aife it with prodigious hour and care, yet it t:evcr grew kindly, nor produc'd any thing but/bur crabbed at;if, even not tho? two famous ones at 0 x F o u/? and ,, a ? D o �, till they were new graj9d at thcRe/'0r- matio?; after which they flourifh'd for many years extreamly, aucl furnifh'd the whole nation with eat quantitie? of the molt beautiful aacl figred fruits of all forta. The two famous trees, before mention'd, grew into fuch teat repute, that a fin le graft from one ? g g o., ?hem cott an hundr?d, tvoo hundred, or three hun- dred t?omds, according to the quality of the perfort who bought it, (which is thh way of dealing at tho?e two t?late?) and few noblemen, gentlemen, and fnbfianfial freeholders were without one of them about their hou/;s. i? i? ' '?'?-? (almo? to increelibility) how rna?. ny different kind? of .?.?ples oz;e of thel? trees bore at the fame time, which took their names from the reveal arts anti fc?entes which they re?re�en- ted. There was the theological at�le, the medicinal. apple, the law a?Ie, the mathematical ap,fle, the aflro?cmical a? le. the e0 raphial apple? the loglong ? g,g a?Iole, the ,,netalohyfical apple, the rhetorical apple, the muffcol ap?ie, the poetical apple, the natural thilofphy apple, the moralehil'13phy apple, the gram- marian apple, and abundance of other forts of lefa valuable a�p:es, which it would be endleti to enu- . I muf? not forget to mention that fome iil-mean-
- v.g perfort did, long ago, privately ingraff upon
two of'the main branches of the tree a errur ' el, fie and. a fiditio? al?ple ? which/hot up and fl:iread
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