470 OBSERVATIONS ON 



RENOVATION OF LEAVES. 



When oaks are quite stripped of their leaves by chaffers, 

 they are clothed again soon after Midsummer with a beautiful 

 foliage: but beeches, horse-chestnuts and maples, once defaced 

 by those insects, never recover their beauty again for the 

 whole season. WHITE. 



ASH 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 steril 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 insi- 

 nuate themselves through the thickest covert, so as to sur- 

 mount it all : 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 affords much 

 pabulum for bees, smelling strongly like honey. The foliage 

 of 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 



