ON THE FBUCTif KATIOK OF THE, F1119..- 297^ 



diJJectoTi can conceive the mischief done to such seeclsj Jpjj^ 

 thus tearing the chief vessels in the cone. , .\ ,> - .^ 



In tht pines it is most easy to know the cone of the year Cones of the 

 for several vears back, as they ave always found on the year's P'"® °^ ^'*^* 



•' 111 '^^^^ ye^ra 



shoot to which they belong. By traongeach shoot the tree growth de- 

 has made a few years back, this will be found 7itf!;6T /o rary.^cribed. 

 The first year's cone w white and close ; thi^ s^ond year's if, 

 green and close ; the thnd brown; the fourth bi'owjpi, dod- 

 open ; and each falls back one year's shoot. '„.« 



With respect to the larch, it is very different ; in Aai^i/, Fructification 

 nature^ and appearance, no trees can differ more. The larch. "^*^^^ larch, 

 gives her fruit in an irregular manner, equally on the old as 

 on the new wood. It has also its ft-male catkin appearing 

 biifoie the male, and so much preceding it, that the seed Jft 

 ready for impregnation, ere the powder o^* the stamen i* 

 ripe: this is easily known, by dissecting the cone of the' /a5^ 

 year^ and comparing it with the present. /Jlie distended 

 vessels, which are most observable »t the ba<!:k ; the ppeaio^ 

 of the nourishing vessels, and above all the bubble, i£ 

 watched for in April or May, prove this'^early impregnatioij- 

 1 doubt not it is also the case with the cedar of Lebanoii^ Cedar of Leba- 

 though the cones oTthis tree hang afterwards till the foortti '^""' 

 or fifth season, as their appearance testifies. The quantity ,|^^»* g^j^,,,;^ 

 of tannin (or of that juice which appears to contain it), is Tanftin."' i '■' 

 excessive, and seems nearly as. much as is contained in the 

 bark ; for the cone pdrt (when the seeds are taken out) y. if 

 magnified, shows nothing but bladders of this juice. ;: \ 



As to the cypresses, and those I have ventured to i:anU Cyprc§s€s. 

 with them, (like the pinesX th^ey ar^ too late in thf> ye^sr fq^ 

 impregnation; beside that the seed i? 43oV.!ibrp[|ed^,Ortl^ 

 cone opened, till late in the autunnnf • ; ' r .,? - .. 



Since I have turned ray mind to remark the quantity of Quantity of 



tatinin found in tr^'es, 1 have observed how much more ig tanmn m dtffa 



rent trees, 

 found in many, than in the oak. In the b^tvjla alnus of 



this country there is certainly a very great quantity, though 



not so much as in the firs.. The men's hands who bark it 



are always so stained, that they find it very difficult to obii* 



terate it; which is not the case when they strip the oak. 



Affer studying the firs, my hands were so stained, I had 



^reat trouble to take it from them ; and yet the guarding, 



tcoo^ 



