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*8e. Celtis. 
The Lote, or Nettle-tree of America. _ 
Thefe trees ate natives of Carolina and moft of the northern colonies in America, and are 
hardy enough to endure the climate of England ; they grow to a large fize, of a regular pyra- 
midal form; the wood clofe-grained, and fit for many mechanical ufes. The leaves are fharp- 
pointed and notched; the flowers are compofed of five very {mall white petals, encompafling 
many ftamina, and are fucceeded by fingle round berries, which, if fown in a hot bed, will 
fometimes rife in three or four months, but in the common earth are ufually the fecond year 
before they appear. Thefe trees naturally srow in a moift foil, and while young require 
| frequent watering: their branches alfo will ftrike root by laying; and though it is a tree of 
no fingular beauty, it may ferve to add to the variety of the foreft-trees which the new world 
affords, | 
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