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The Right Service Tree. 



SORBUS LEGITIMA. 



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Tree wild in fome Parts of this Kino-dom, but 



not known in others, nor even in many of 

 our Gardens. It grows twenty Feet high or more, 

 and the Branches Hand very irregularly. The^ 

 Leaves are each compofed of feveral Pairs ot 

 fmaller, fet on a common Rib, with an odd one 

 at the End ; thefe are long, narrow, and ferrated, 

 fb that they have fome Refemblance of the Afli- 

 Trce. The Flowers are not large, they are white, 

 and fland in Clufters. Each is fucceeded by a 

 Fruit of the Shape of a Pear, and of the Bignefs 

 qf fome Pears of the fmallerKind, thefe are green, 

 except where they have been expofed to the Sun, 

 where they are fometimes redifh i theTafte is very 

 pleafant, when they are ripe. 



The unripe Fruit is ufed; they prefs the Juice, 

 and give it againfl Purgings, but it is little 



known. ' 



The Common Service Tree. 



SORBUS VULGARIS. 



A Large Tree and very beautiful, Its Growth 

 '^ being regular, and the Leaves of an elegant 

 Shape, the Bark of the Trunk is greyilh, and to- 

 lerably fmooth ; on the Branches it is brown : 

 The Leaves are fmgle, large, and of a rounded 

 F igure, but divided into five, fix, or feven Parts, 

 pretty deeply, and ferrated round the Edges, they 

 are of a bright Green on the upper Part, and. 

 v/hitiih underneath. The Flowers are little and 

 yellowifh, and they grow in Clufters ; the Fruit 

 is fmair and brown when ripe. It grows in 



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