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Like to this is the Tree which-the Indnscall Papaya,and the CbinefesaI ny#f
Xu ; it beareth aBunch of Frithobigger than our Mellon, oftafte delicious
the Juice to be eaten with a Spoon : and throughout the whole Year it glob
lies in green Flowers and ripe Fruit6 
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but an Herb, much like to our L4rduus, but cald by them (atriojoli - on whole
Leaf a Fruit groweth flicking unto its Stalk, of fo pleafant and exquifite
a tafle, 
that it ay eafily obtain the preeminence among the mof noble Fruits of India
and bin4. The SprmatickFculty is innate in alltheParts thereof j for not
only the Seeds Oi on the Ground, but it's Sprouts and Leaves being Planted,'
produce thp like Fruits: Gonceniag which admirable Piodu4 of Nature, fee
what I have difcpvfed at large conceringthe Seeds of things, in the twelfth
Jook of niy 8   frzineiW od. The Seeds of fuch Plants conduce much to 
prove tat aenr Phlofophy of Plants, of which I have there laid the Platform.
Th~e mofl inte4  ruicsj 2 a, Lidc, and 9e, are every where defcrib'd ; 
but how M4nga is in6culAted in the Pomecitron, is much different from the
Art of the Eukopeansu being perform'd without Transfoliation or Inoculation
; 
for they otily bind a Bough 0f the Fruit Manga to a Bough of the Pomecitron,
;id daub it about with Clay; which being done) they conjoyn, and fo bring
forth the imd zexellent Fruit of both. 
The Author of dta Sinicus makes mntion of a Tree in the Province of 
Cbekiatg   which  rod ceth a Fruit that is fat, whereof they make mof excel-,
Ilent white Candles, which neither foul the Hands, nor make any ill Scent
being eztitiguifhed; ;The Tree is like our Pear-tfee ; when the Fruit is
ripe, 
they 'beak the Bark, macerate and fieep it in hot Water, and when they have
water'd the heated Pulp, they make it up into a Lump, Which looks like Suet;
and from its Nt they e ta& Oyl, like our O?1 of Olives, very ufefl in
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ter; the Leaves are flain'd with a Copperdike rednefs, which Aropping to
the 
Grouhd, afford Sheep and Kine good Food, by which they, become very fat.
CHAPt 
VII. 
0  irange 7eafts or Animalsn China 
are in all the Empire of Cbia, but e~fially in the Province of 
m and Qwifi, great pleant of El phhatsT rs,Bears, and other 
3.qfIfcrm .mon to. feverad Parts of the World. but I fhall treat 
only of fuch as are to be fqund no where eIre but in Cbina.