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OBSERVATIONS 



VEGETABLES. 



TREES, ORDER OF LOSING THEIR 

 LEAVES. 



ONE of the first trees that become naked 

 is the walnut; the mulberry, the ash, espe- 

 cially if it bears many keys, and the horse- 

 chesnut come next. All lopped trees, 

 while their heads are young, carry their 

 leaves a long while. Apple trees and 

 peaches remain green very late, often till 

 the end of November : young beeches 

 never cast their leaves till Spring, till the 

 new leaves sprout and push them off: in 

 the Autumn the beechen-leaves turn of a 



