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The ELDER-BERRY-TREE, 



THE Elder-tree (Sambucus) is of 

 the berry - bea^.ng kind, and 

 merits a place in the fruit-tree collec- 

 tion, for the fake of the berries, for 

 making that excellent cordial liquor, 

 called Elder Wine, which is its chief 

 value as a fruit tree, the raw berries 

 being very unpalatable to eat -, and be- 

 longs to the Clafs and Order Fentandrla 

 Trigynia, Eowers with five ftamina and 

 three ftyles or fligmas. 



There is but one fpecies of Eider 

 proper for the fruit-tree collection, viz. 



Sambucus 



