Nearly allied to the beech in a pidurefque 

 light, is the horn-beam. It grows like it, 

 when it is fuffered to grow ; but it is gene- 

 rally feen only in clipped hedges, where it 

 is obedient to the knife - y and with a little care 

 will never prefume to appear out of form. It's 

 wood is white, tough, and flexible. 



The deciduous trees, which I have de- 

 (bribed, hold certainly the firft rank. I mall 

 however touch on a few others, which tho 

 neither fo beautiful, nor fo characterifKc, are 

 however worth the notice of the pi&urefque 

 eye. 



Among thefe the firil place is due to two 

 noble trees of the fame kind, both naturalized 

 in England tho from different extremes of the 

 globe the occidental and the oriental plane. 



The occldenfal plane is a native of America ; 

 but has long been known in England ; where 

 it attains a conflderable growth ; tho inferior, 

 no doubt, to what it attains in it's native foil. 

 It's ftem is very pi&urefque. It is fmooth, 

 and of a light afh-colour; and has the pro- 

 perty of throwing off it's bark in fcales; thus 

 E 2 naturally 



