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 inide is full of mall, flat eeds, covered with a juicy pulp, which has a very agreeable, muky tate. It grows on a vine, which bears a very beautiful bloom, very much reembling the paion flower; and the vine is much admired, becaufe it affords the mot delightful hade when turned over an arbour.

The granadilla is rather larger than the thethe [sic] larget ized Libon lemon, and is an excellent fruit. It alo grows on a vine, which bears a delightful ky-blue and yellow bloom, very fragrant, and of the ame appearance as that of the water lemon, but much larger. The rind of the fruit is alo of a yellow colour, but not o bright as the other: and the inide is full of eeds covered with a juicy pulp, but not of o muky a tate. The granadilla is much recommended to people in fevers, its juice being very cooling. The rind of it mixed with a little lime-juice, makes an excellent tart, nearly equal to thoe made with Englih