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moft beautiful tree, of wonderful quick growth; I 

 meafured ftioots of it laft year, and not in wet foil, of 

 more than fix feet; the white poplar, with fmaller 

 leaves, is little inferior to it. There is a variety of the 

 abele, with dark-coloured leaves, but not equal to it in 

 beauty. The black poplar is very frequent, and alfo 

 the afpeh-tree, both valuable for their growing in foils 

 where other trees do not thrive. Befides, there are 

 numbers of the tacamahacca, or balfam poplar, propa- 

 gated for the beauty of their leaves, and the quicknefs 

 >.vith which they rife. All thefe trees grow freely from 

 cuttings, the laft in particular; but there feem to be 

 two kinds of the laft, one of which is a flow grower, 

 and only to be diftinguifhed from the other by that 

 circumftance. Doctor Anderfon mentions the taca- 

 mahacca, as making a moft impenetrable hedge ia 2 

 very (hort time, by twifting the branches together at 

 the top, the fecond year after planting. The wood o 

 all the former kinds, particularly the abele, is ufeful 

 for; many purpofes, efpecially for flooring, being whiter 

 than any other timber; it is alfo ufeful for turners ; in 

 England it is ufed by bellows-makers in preference to 

 any other, and alfo for heels for ihoes. 



Platanus orienialis-\ have not feen any where in 

 this county, except at Moira; it is a tree of curious 

 foliage, each leaf being regularly palmatedj it is a well- 

 ftzed tree, much branched. 



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