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when moft other trees have loft ther leaves, 

 this looks very fine. This tree has like- 

 wife a very flow growth ; for a ftem, thirteen 

 inches and a quarter in diameter, had one 

 hundred and eighty-eight rings, or annual 

 circles, and another, eighteen inches in dia- 

 meter, had at leaft two hundred and fifty, 

 for a great number of the rings were fo fine 

 that they could not be counted. This tree is 

 propagated in the fame manner as the com- 

 mon Juniper-tree is in Sweden, viz. chiefly 

 by birds, which eat the berries and emit 

 the feeds entire. To encourage the planting 

 pf this ufeful tree, a defcription of the 

 method of doing it, written by Mr Bar-? 

 tram, was inferted in a Penfykania alma- 

 nack, called Pcor Richard Improved, for 

 jthe year 1749. In it was explained the 

 manner of planting and augmenting the 

 pumber of thefe trees, and mention is made 

 pf ibme of the purpofes to which they may 

 be employed. 



IN the evening I returned to Raccoon. 

 May the 6th. THE Mulberry-trees 

 f Morns rubra) about this time began to 

 bloflbm, but their leaves were yet very 

 frnall. The people divided them into male 

 larid female trees or flowers > and faid that 

 jhofe which never bore any fruit were 

 pialee, and thofe which did, females, 



SMILAX 



