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 The mamma apple is a large fruit, of the ize in general of a middling-ized muk melon; but ome are much maller. The rind of it is thick, trong, and has the appearance of leather; the inide has three large nuts, or kernels, which are covered with a thick ubtance, of the colour of a carrot, very juicy, and in tate much reembling that of a peach. It is a delicious fruit when ripe, but is reckoned to be unwholeome, from its indigetive quality, yet they make tarts of it. The timber of the tree which bears the mamma apple is a very beautiful wood, durable, and is ued for furniture.

Guavas are of three orts, the white, the red, and the yellow guava; the firt is the larget and moft eteemed, but they are all very good. The white ort grows in general as large as a good-ized apple, the red rather maller, and the yellow about the ize of a golden pippin, which they alo much reemble. The