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by the length of their paffage: if therefore fome of them be put up in moift earth, and others 
in dry fand, a better chance may be expeéted than when they are all fent together packed up 
in the fame manner; for each of thefe ways may fucceed beft at different times, though perhaps 
that can no more be accounted for in thefe than in many other feeds, which this method has 
proved very ufeful to. 
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. All thefe different kinds of nuts may be fent in cafes, their interftices i Gilled up with 
ne dry earth or fand. 
23. Cornus Mas Virginiana, flofculis in corymbo digeftis piriantbin roel 
albo radiatim cinétis. 
The Dogwood-tree. 
_ This is a fmall tree, the trunk being feldom more than eight or ten inches thick: the leaves 
refemble thofe of our common dogwood, but are fairer and larger, ftanding oppofite to each 
other on foot-ftalks of above a foot long; from among which branch forth many flowers in the 
following remarkable manner: In the beginning of March the bloffoms break forth, and though 
perfectly formed; and wide open, are not fo wide as a fix-pence, but they increafe gradually to 
the breadth of a man’s hand, being not at their full bignefs till about fix weeks after their firft 
appearance: each flower confifts of four greenifh-white leaves, every leaf having a deep inden- 
ture at its end. - From the bottom of the flower rifes a tuft of yellow ftamina ; every one of 
which opens on “the top into four fmall. leaves‘ or petals. The wood is white, has a clofe 
grain, and very hard, like that of box. ‘The flowers are fucceeded by clufters of berries from — 
two to fix in a clufter, clofely joined and. fet on foot-ftalks an inch long: thefe berries are 
red, of an oval form, and of the fize of large haws, containing a hard ftone. As the flowers 
are a great ornament to the woods in Summer, fo are the berries in Winter; for they ufually 
remain in full beauty on the trees till the approach of Spring. Thefe trees bear the fevereft 
weather in England, without fuffering any injury therefrom: they produce here plenty of 
fuckers, by which they may be as plentifully increafed. I have not heard of any flower or 
fruit of them produced in England. 
