CONVERSATION YI. 



Uncle Philip and his Young' FrienSL talk 

 about Poplars, and Aspens, and Pcrstin- 

 mons, and Wild-cherries, and the Cabbage- 

 tree, and Chestnuts, and Chincapins. ZJjicle 

 Philij), among other things, describes the 

 great Chestnut on Mount Etna, called the 

 Chestnut of the Hundred Horses. 



" I THINK T have two or three trees to tell 

 you about to day, my children, that you will 

 be glad to make acquaintance with ; partly 

 because of their utility, and still more on ac- 

 count of their fruit, which I dare say you 

 have eaten many a time. I mean the wild 

 cherries." 



" Oh yesj Uncle Philip, they seem like old 

 friends. But I did not know that there wf^ie 

 more than one kind of wild cherries." 



" There are three, but there is only one of 

 them that you are likely to be acquainted 

 with, for the other two are found only in remote 



