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Show COMMON PEACH TREE. AMYGDALUS PERSICA. Class XIY. Icosandria. OrderI. Monogynia. Essent. Gen. Cuan, Same as thelast, Srec, Cuar. All the serratures of the Leaves acute : Flowers single, sessile PIMENTO, ox JAMAICA PEPPER. . a ALUSP LLC'S. DESCRIPTION. MYRTUS PIMENTA. Tur peach treeis trained against walls and palings, and extends itself far. Its leaves are narrow, pointed, acutely serrate, on footstalks, and growalternate. Flowers are light blush rede Stamina conspicuous, inserted into the calyx. HIS FOR Y. Native of Persia, and was knownin England in 1562. nectarine is only a variety of the peach. Class XIY. Icosandria. Order 1. Monogynia. Essent. Gen. CHar. Calyx five-cleft, above: Petals five: Berry two- or three-seeded. SPec. CHAR. Flowers panicled, trichotomous: Leaves oblong-lanceolate. SS The MEDICAL VIRTU E. Thefruit is cooling and nutritious, and can seldombe eaten to injure. The flowers and leaves have been madeinto tea, and given in the morning as a purge against worm s, and with mas nifest success. It maybe prudent to join some rhubarb withit. DESCRIPTION. Ts Species of myrtle grows to thirty feet in height. The leaves are four inches in length, veined, pointed, of a bright green. The flowers growupon stalks, terminating the branches, and dividing into three forks; at the end of each is a flower; also one at the bifurcation, or angle. |