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like our whortleberry bufhes when they firft be* 

 gin to green, and when the points of the leaves 

 -are yet red. Mr. Bartram has fent this .plant to 

 Dr. Dillenius, but that gentleman did not know 

 where he fhould range it. It is reckoned a very 

 good traumatic, and this quality Mr. Bartram 

 himfelf experienced ; for being thrown and kick- 

 ed by a vicious horfe, in fuch a manner as to have 

 both his thighs greatly hurt, he boiled the Sa- 

 rotbra, and applied it to his wounds. It not only 

 immediately appeafed his pain, which before 

 had been very violent, but he likewife, by its 

 afliftance, recovered in a {hort time. 



HAVING read, in Mr. Millers Botanical Die* 

 tionary, that Mr. Peter Collmfon had a particular 

 Larch tree from America in his garden, I aiked 

 Mr. Bartram whether he was acquainted with 

 it? he anfwered, that he had fent it himfelf to 

 Mr. Collinfon > that it only grew in the eaftern 

 parts of New Jerfey, and that he had met with 

 it in no other Engltfh plantation. It differs from 

 the other fpecies of "Larch trees, its cones being 

 much lefs. I afterwards faw this tree in great 

 plenty in Canada. 



MR. Bartram was of opinion, that the apple 

 tree was brought into America by the Europeans, 

 and that it never was there before their arrival. 

 But he looked upon peaches as an original Ame- 

 rican fruit, and as growing wild in the greateft 

 part of America. Others again were of opinion, 

 that they were firft brought -over by the E#- 

 ropeans. But all the French in Canada agreed, 

 that on the banks of the river MiJJiJippi, and in 



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