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 the trength of the mell of the leaves, which, however, is very pleaant.

The papaw apples grow in cluters on talks, but each of them, when full-grown, is larger than the larget-ized Englih apple, ome nearly as large as a good-ized muk melon, and have nearly the ame look. When half-ripe, they are ued as a vegetable, and boiled, are a good ubtitute for turnips; when full-ripe, they are a great antidote to worms, and are recommended to perfons afflifted with them: the eeds of the apple epeclally, which have a hot quality, like pepper, are reckoned good in that diorder.

The blooms of the papaw tree are of a beautiful white and yellow colour, have a very odoriferous cent, and with the talks are made pickles and preerves of. The juice of the apples, which, when they are unripe, is like thick milk, has the peculiar quality of making