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ever else may accompany it, by cutting them away 

 in Summer. 



24. Walnut, ash, and pithy-trees are safer prun'd 

 in Summer and warm weather, than in the spring, 

 whatever the vulgar fancy. And so 



I will conclude with the tecnical names, or dis- 

 similar parts of trees, as I find them enumerated by the 

 industrious and learned Dr. Merett. Scapus, trun- 

 cus, cortex, liber, malicorium, matrix, medulla & cor, 

 pecten, circuli, surculi, rami, sarmenta, ramusculi, spadix, 

 vimen, virgultum & cremium, vitilia, talea, scots, termes, 

 turiones,frondes, cachryas & nucamentum,julus & catulus, 

 comae : The speciesyr^fox 1 , suffrutex, &c. to which add, 

 alburnum, capitulum, cima, echinus, geniculum, locustae, 

 pericarpum, petiolus, sugilta, &c. all which I leave to 

 be put into good and proper English, (as our learned 

 phytologist Mr. Ray has done) by those who shall 

 once oblige our nation with a full and absolutely 

 compleat dictionary, as yet a desiderate amongst us, 

 however of late infinitely improv'd. 



To this I shall add, the time and season of the 

 flourishing of trees, computing from the entry of each 

 month as the figures denote ; that is, from March 

 (where the Doctor begins) inclusively. March, acer, 3. 

 (i. e.) from March to May, viz. one month ; & sic de 

 ceterisj populus 2. quercus 5. sorbus 2. ulmus 2. April, 

 alnus 2. betula 2. castanea 4. euonymus 2. fagus 2. 

 fraxinus 2. nux-juglans 3. salix 2. sambucus 2. May, 

 cornus 2. genista 4. juniper us, morus 2. tilia 4. June, 

 aquifolium 2. July, arbutus 2, Feb. buxus 2, &c. 



Many more useful observations are to be collected, 

 and added to these, from the diligent experience of 

 planters. 



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