1 66 May 1749. 



Some had the feeds from Carolina, where 

 they have great plantations of cotton ; but. 

 others get it out of fome cotton which they 

 had bought. They faid, it was difficult, at 

 £rft, to get ripe feeds from the plants which 

 were fown here ; for the fummer in Caro- 

 lina, from whence their firft feed came, is 

 both longer and hotter than it is here. But 

 after the plants have been more ufed to the 

 climate, and haftened more than they were 

 formerly, the feeds are ripe in due time. 



At night I returned to Raccoon. 



May the 4th . C r a b - t r e e s are a fpecies 

 of wild apple trees, which grow in the 

 woods and glades, but efpecially on little 

 hillocks, near rivers *. In New Jerfey the 

 tree is rather fcarce ; but in Pcnfyhania it 

 is plentiful. Some people had planted a 

 fiflgle tree of this kind near their farms, on 

 account of the fine imells which its flowers 

 afford. It had begun to open fome of its 

 flowers about a day or two ago; however, 

 •mofi of them were not yet open. They 

 are exactly Like the bloiToms or the com- 

 mon appkrtrees., except that the colour is a 

 little mbrereddifli in the Crab-trees ; though 

 fome kinds of the cultivated trees have 



flowers 



* Pyrtts ccmnnr'm. Linn. Sp. Plant, p. Malus fylvef- 

 U:i,jieribui odoratis. Gronov, FL Virginica. 5-5, 



