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flowers which are very near as red : but 

 the fmell diftinguifhes them plainly ; for 

 the wild trees have a very pleafant fmell, 

 fomewhat like the rafp-berry. The apples, 

 or crabs, are fmall, four, and unfit for any 

 thing, but to make vinegar of. They ly 

 under the trees all the winter, and acquire a 

 yellow colour. They feldom begin to rot 

 before fpring comes on. 



I CANNOT omit an obfervation here. 

 The Crab-trees opened their flowers only 

 yefterday and to-day ; whereas, the culti- 

 vated apple-trees, which are brought from 

 Europe* had already loft their flowers. The 

 wild cherry-trees did not flower before the 

 1 2th of May ; on the other hand, the culti- 

 vated or European ones, had already opened 

 their bloffoms on the 24th of April. The 

 black walnut-trees of this country had nei- 

 ther leaves nor flowers, when the European 

 kind has large leaves and bloffoms. From 

 hence it appears, that trees brought overfrom 

 Europe, of the fame kind with the wild trees 

 of America? flower much fooner than the 

 latter. I cannot fay what is the reafon of 

 this forwardnefs of the European trees in 

 this country, unlefs they bring forth their 

 bloffoms as foon as they get a certain 

 degree of warmth, which they have in 

 their native country. It feems, the Eu- 

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