166 May 1749. 



Some had the feeds from Carolina, where 

 they have great plantations of cotton ; but 

 pthers gojt it out of fome cotton which they 

 had bought. They faid, it was difficult, at 

 ifirfr, to get ripe feeds from the plants which 

 were fown here ; for the fummer in Caro- 

 line * from whence their firfl feed came, is 

 both longer and hotter than it is here. But 

 after the plants have been more ufed to the 

 climate, and haftened more than they were 

 formerly, the feeds are ripe in due time. 



AT night I returned to Raccoon. 



May the 4th. CRAB-TREES are a fpecies 

 of wild apple trees, which grow in the 

 woods and glades, but efpecially on little 

 hillocks, near rivers *. In New Jerfey the 

 m 's rather fcarce ; but in Penfyhcinia it 

 is p' fiitiful. Some people had planted a 

 fingk t.tee of this kind near their farms, on 

 account of the fine fm ells which its flowers 

 afford. It had begun to open fome of its 

 flowers about a day or two ago; however, 

 moft of them were not yet open. They 

 exactly like the bloflb.ms of the corn- 

 , . ople-tree.s, except that the colour is a 

 little more rc-ddifh in the Crab-trees , though 

 fome kinds of the cultivated trees have 



flowers 



* Pyrys ccroKariet. Linn. Sp. Plant, p. Malm Jylrvtfi 

 Qroiiov, Fl, Yirginica. 55. 



