64 July 1749- 



THE fmooth fumach, or Rhus glabra, 

 grows in great plenty here. I have no 

 where feen it fo tall as in this place, where 

 it had fometimes the height of eight yards, 

 and a proportionable thicknefs. 



Sqffafras is planted here ; for it is never 

 found wild in thefe parts, fort Anne being 

 the moft northerly place where I have found 

 it wild. Thofe flirubs which were on the 

 ifland, had been planted many years ago ; 

 however, they were but fmall fhrubs, from 

 two to three feet high, and fcarce fo much, 

 The reafon is, becaufe the ftem is killed 

 every winter, almoii down to the very root, 

 and muft produce new moots every faring, 

 as I have found from my own obfervations 

 here; and fo it appeared to be near the forts 

 Anne, Nicholfon, and Ofwego. It will there- 

 fore be in vain to attempt to plant faffafras 

 in a very cold climate. 



THE red Mulberry-trees (Moms rubra> 

 Linn.} are likewife planted here, I faw 

 four or five of them about five yards high, 

 which the governor told me, had been 

 twenty years in this place, and were brought 

 from more foutherly parts, fince they do 

 not grow wild near Montreal. The moft 

 northerly place, where I have found it 

 growing fpoutaneoufly, is about twenty 

 Englijh miles north of Albany, as I have 



been 



