i §4 May 1749. 



when mod: other trees have loft ther leaves, 

 this looks very fine. This tree has like- 

 wife a very flow growth ; for a ftem, thirteen 

 inches and a quarter in diameter, had one 

 hundred and eighty-eight rings, or annual 

 circles and another, eighteen inches in dia- 

 meter, had at lead two hundred and fifty, 

 for a great number of the rings were fo fine 

 that they could not be counted. This tree is 

 propagated in the fame manner as the com- 

 mon Juniper-tree is in Sweden, viz. chiefly 

 by birds, which eat the berries and emit 

 the feeds entire. To encourage the planting 

 pf this ufeful tree, a defcription of the 

 method of doing it, written by Mr Bar- 

 tram, was inferted in a Penjyhania alma- 

 nack, called Peer Richard Improved, for 

 the year 1740. In it was explained the 

 manner of planting and augmenting the 

 number of thefe trees, and mention is made 

 of fome of the purpofes to which they may 

 be employed. 



In the evening I returned to Raccoon. 

 May the 6th. The Mulberry-trees 

 /Morus rubra) about this time began to 

 bloflbrn, but their leaves were yet very 

 fmall. The people divided them into male 

 and female trees or flowers ; and faid that 

 thole wh|ch never bore any fruit were 

 lies, and thofe which did, females. 



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