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 There is but one fpecies that claims 

 attention as a frait tree, and whicji the 

 botanifts entitle, 



Crataegus Horminalis, — Eatable, or 

 Maple-leaved Wild Service — Hav- 

 ing heart-Jhaped, {even -angled leaves, with 

 the lower fegments fpreading a/under ; and 

 large bunches of white flowers, of five 

 roundifh petals, containing many (lami- 

 na, and two ftyies, fucceeded by clutters 

 of reddifh-brown berries, having two 

 hard feeds, ripening in Autumn, which, 

 after being gathered and lain till they 

 become foft, are palatable to eat. 



This tree grows forty or fifty feet 



high, with a large, branchy, fpreading 



head, ornamented with large hean-form- 



edj fept-angular leaves, hoary under* 



N n a neath ; 



