202 October 1748. 



bring forth flowers, with the firft mild 

 weather in the next year. The buds were 

 at prefent quite hard, and all their parts 

 preffed clofe together, that the cold might 

 by all means be excluded. 



The black Walnut trees had for the great- 

 eft part dropt their leaves, and many of 

 them were entirely without them. The 

 walnuts themfelves were already fallen off. 

 The green peel which enclofed them, if 

 frequently handled, would yield a black 

 colour, which could not be got oft the 

 fingers in two or three weeks time, though 

 the hands were warned ever fo much. 



The Cornus jiorida was called Dogwood 

 by the Englijh, and grew abundantly in the 

 woods. It looks beautiful when it is adorn- 

 ed with its numerous great white flowers in 

 fpring. The wood is very hard, and is 

 therefore made ufe of for weaver's fpools, 

 joiner's planes, wedges, &c. When the 

 cattle fall down in fpring for want of 

 ftrength, the people tie a branch of this 

 tree on their neck, thinking it will help 

 them. 



October the 19th. The 'Tulip tree grows 

 every where in the woods of this country. 

 The botanifts call it Liriodendron tulipifera, 

 becaufe its flowers both in refpect to their 

 fize, and in refpect to their exterior form, 



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