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chestnuts, and maples, once defaced by those insects, never 

 recover their beauty again for the whole season.* 



WHITE. , 



Asn TREES. Many ash trees bear loads of keys every 

 year ; others never seem to bear any at all. The prolific 

 ones are naked of leaves, and unsightly; those that are 

 sterile abound in foliage, and carry their verdure a long 

 while, and are pleasing objects. WHITE. 



BEECH. Beeches love to grow in crowded situations, and 

 will insinuate themselves through the thickest covert, so as 

 to surmount it all : they are therefore proper to mend thin 

 places in tall hedges. WHITE. 



SYCAMORE. May 12. The sycamore, or great maple, is 

 in bloom, and at this season makes a beautiful appearance, 

 and aifords much pabulum for bees, smelling strongly like 

 honey. The foliage of this tree is very fine, and very orna- 

 mental to outlets. All the maples have saccharine juices. 



WHITE. 



G-ALLS or LOMBARD Y PoPLAR.f 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 



* .. . . " See, the fading, many-coloured woods, 

 Shade, deepening over shade, the country round 

 Imbrown." THOMSON. ED. 



*f* " The pale, descending year, yet pleasing still, 

 A gentler mood inspires ; for now the leaf 

 Incessant rustles from the mournful grove, 

 Oft startling such as studious walk below, 

 And slowly circles through the waving air.'* 



THOMSON'S AUTUMN. ED. 



