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this tree is very fine, and very ornamental to outlets. 

 All the maples have saccharine juices. WHITE. 



GALLS OF LOMBARDY POPLAR. The stalks and ribs 

 of the leaves of the Lombardy poplar are embossed 

 with large tumours of an oblong shape, which, by 

 incurious observers, have been taken for the fruit of 

 the tree. These galls are full of small insects, some 

 of which are winged, and some not. The parent 

 insect is of the genus of cynips. Some poplars in the 

 garden are quite loaded with these excrescences. 



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CHESTNUT TIMBER. John Carpenter brings home 

 some old chestnut trees, which are very long; in 

 several places the wood-peckers had begun to bore 

 them. The timber and bark of these trees are 

 so very like oak, as might easily deceive an indif- 

 ferent observer ; but the wood is very shakey, and, 

 towards the heart, cup-shakey, (that is to say, apt 

 to separate in round pieces like cups,) so that the 

 inward parts are of no use. They are bought for 

 the purpose of cooperage, but must make but ordi- 

 nary barrels, buckets, &c. Chestnut sells for half 

 the price of oak ; but has sometimes been sent into 

 the king's dock, and passed off instead of oak. 



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LIME BLOSSOMS. Dr. Chandler tells, that in the 

 south of France, an infusion of the blossoms of the 

 lime tree, (tilm^) is in much esteem as a remedy 

 for coughs, hoarsenesses, fevers, &c. ; and that at 

 Nismes, he saw an avenue of limes that was quite 

 ravaged and torn in pieces by people greedily gather- 

 ing the bloom, which they dried and kept for these 

 purposes. 



Upon the strength of the information, we made 



