SvECT. XIX. LISTS OF TREES, 8cc. 299 



OBSERVATIONS OX PARTICULAR TREES. 



Buckthorn, if railed from feed, fow early in autumn, 

 as foon as the berries can be procured, and perhaps 

 fame may come up the following fpring, but moil of 

 them will lay another year. This is the cafe with 

 other feeds, as fweet briar, &c. See page 73. 



Catalpa mould grow fmgly, that it may have its 

 natural wide fpread, and, if poflible, let it be on a plat 

 of grafs, where it will appear to great advantage. It 

 is very hardy ; but as it comes out late, it is advifable 

 to give it a favourable afpeft. 



Maple, of the Jcarlets, there are the Virginian and fir 

 Charles IVagers, both very ornamental, but the latter 

 moil: fo. The Mountain hath mining leaves, and con- 

 tinues late in autumn. 



Magnolias are to be. conhdered as rather tender, 

 efpecially young plants. The glaucous leaved is of 

 the lowed growth, (about ten feet) but all are elegantly 

 ornamental with their white flowers : There is alio a 

 blue flowered one. Let them have a dry foil, as all 

 tender plants mould, as well as a warm fituation. 



Mountain ajh produces its white flowers in May. Its 

 foliage is pretty, and its fruit of red berries is one of the 

 greateft ornaments of autumn, coming very early, and 

 hanging all winter, if the blackbird, &c. will let them 

 alone. As it deferves the moft confpicuous inuation, 

 it will be proper to plant fome near thehoufe, and moil 

 frequented places, where birds may be diilurbed irom 

 their too frequent vifits. 



Pijhamin, or date plum, is chiefly cultivated here as 

 ornamental for its mining leaves ; its fruit is, however, 

 eat by fome, like the medlar and /orb, in a flate ot de- 

 cay. Houfe young plants in pots the fir it winter : Al- 

 low this tree a dry foil and inciter. 



Pijlachia, this is the hardieit of three forts. Treat 



it as a tender plant, whilff. young, for three or four 



Q 6 years, 



