SIS LISTS OF TRIBES, &C. SECT. XIX. 



heating this way, bore a hole up the middle, and drive 

 fomething of iron in to fplit them open. 



Oak, the evergreen forts are excellent timber, and 

 very ornamental in pleafure grounds: See page 27. 

 The red excrefcences upon the kerm'es oak, are occafi- 

 oned by infefts making infertions in the bark for depo- 

 fiting their eggs, which caufing an extravasation of (ap, 

 it there cYmdenfes, and forms the little granulous fub- 

 ffances, ufed for fcarlet dying. 



Pine, there are feveral other forts of lefs eftimation. 



The Weymouth and torch pines are the loftieft, and the 



Carolina fwamp the loweft growers. To get out the 



feed, obfeive what is faid above, as the pine cones are 



harder to open than the firs. 



Pyracantha requires fome fupport of flakes, pales, 

 or wall, though it may be trained as a ftandard bufh, 

 or form an hedge impregnable. It is very pretty when 

 in full fruit; but it fo often mifTes being fo, through 

 bad pruning, that it is got much out of repute : See 

 page 1 69. It does belt in a dry poor foil, and an 

 eanern afpecr. Young cuttings, in June, will flrike, 

 being potted in good earth, and fet in the lhade till 

 autumn and then plunged in the ground under a warm 

 wall. See observations on the Arbutus above. 



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 VI. 



List of low evergreen trees and Jhrubs. 



3 Adam's needle com. and Virginian, pur. and wh. /". r. 



4 AlaterhuS) large, variety in leaf, pi. and ftr./. /. Feb. 

 j lower growing, ditto 



i Arbutus, trailing, or U<va Urf.c.JI. /. Nov. 

 l Andromeda , box leaved, Canada,/.///, c. July m. 

 4 Box. tree, white and yel. itriped, c. I. See lait lift, 1 



j dwarf, plain, and Itriped leaved,/'. /. c. /. 



Briar, fw. erergr. doub. red and yel, ft.j'u. /. b. May 

 4 2 \ l Bughjs 



