SECT. XIX. LISTS OF TREES, &C. 295 



* Oak Englim, American forts, Spanifh, Italian, Szc.f. 



* Plane, Eaftern, Weftern, middle or Spanifh,/. /. c May 



* Poplar, white, black, tremulous, and Carolina, c. l.fn. m. 



* Service tree, the wild or maple leaved,/. /. June 



* Sycamore, is the great maple, which fee. 



* Walnut, the common, or royal, and black Virginian,/. 



* Willow, white, or filyer leaved, purple and fweet, &c. 



%* For underwood amongft foreft trees, the ufual forts, 

 are alders, ajb, beech, birch, hazel, hornbeam^ fallow, 

 willow, and fometimes the wjch-tlm, common maple, poplar, 

 iiiidj^camore. 



OBSERVATIONS ON PARTICULAR TREES. 



Alders, cuttings of it grow readily, and may be thick 

 truncheons a yard long, pointed, and thruft intofolt 

 ground half way, or into a hole made with an iron bar. 

 This- is the way alfo to propagate poplars, willows, and 

 fallows; alfo elders. There is a dwarf alder. 



AJh, the American forts do not grow near fo large 

 as the common Englifh, For the ornamental aihes, fee 

 the next lift. 



Birch is reckoned the worft of timber, yet the wood 

 has its ufes in feveral particular bufinefTes. The 

 American forts grow much larger than the Englifh. 

 The tree is of that accommodating nature, that it will 

 grow in any foil or fituation, wet or dry. It is well 

 known, that a wine is made of its fap, by boring holes 

 in full grown trees in fpring, before the leaves come 

 out : from a number of trees a great deal may be col- 

 lected. Without being unpleafant, (if properly made) 

 birch wine is relifhed by many, and is reckoned very me- 

 dicinal in fcorbutic, and other complaints.* There is 



* It has been the wim of the author to fpeak of the me- 

 dical properties of many plants that have occurred in -this 

 work, but room could not be allowed it. The procefs, &c. 

 of birch wine, with the properties of moll plants A .will be iound 

 in Mcjrick's Family Herbal, 8vo, a good book. .-...-. 



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