CHAP, ix S Y L V A in 



liquor, which makes an artificial wine. See Birch, 

 cap. xvii. Of other species, see Mr. Ray's Dendrolog. 

 Tom. in. p. 5, 6. 



CHAPTER X. 



Of the Service, and black cherry-tree. 



i . Sorbus, the service-tree (of which there are four 

 sorts) is rais'd of the chequers, or berries, which being 

 ripe (that is) rotten, about September (and the pulp 

 rub'd off clean from the stones, in dry sand, and so 

 kept till after Christmas) may be sown like beech- 

 mast, educated in the nursery like the chesnut : It is 

 reported that the sower never sees the fruit of his 

 labour ; either for that it bears only being very old, 

 or that men are commonly so, before they think of 

 planting trees : But this is an egregious mistake ; for 

 these come very soon to be trees, and being planted 

 young, thrive exceedingly ; I have likewise planted 

 them as big as my arm successfully : The best way is 

 therefore to propagate them of suckers, of which they 

 put forth enough, as also of sets, and may be budded 

 with great improvement : They delight in reasonable 

 good stiff ground, rather inclining to cold, than over- 

 hot ; for in places which are too dry, they never bear 

 kindly. The torminalis (so called for its effects against 

 gripings of the bowels) is the kind most frequent 

 with us ; for those of the narrower, and less indented 

 leaf, are not so common in England as in France, 

 bearing a sort of berry of the pear-shape, and is there 

 call'd the cormler ; this tree may be graffed either on 



