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 ; o Terrt-Filus. N�v 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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