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branches, fucceeded by large bunches of 

 fmall black berries, ripe in September. 



It is the common black-berried 

 Elder we principally recommend as a 

 fruit-tree, for its berries to make wine, 

 and for which the trees demand a place 

 in our collection, trained generally as 

 common flandards, or fo:i*.eocca(ionally 

 in rough hedges; efpechily as they will 

 grow freely in any foil and fituation, in 

 out grounds ; fuch as the verges of or*- 

 chards, &c. hedge-rows, fides of banks, 

 or ditches of water, or any wafte pre- 

 mifes, obfcure corners, or moid filia- 

 tions •, either in detached ftandards, or 

 ia continued hedges ; and will produce 

 abundant crops of berries annually, well 

 worth our notice for thepurpofeaforefaid. 



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