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There is but one fpeues meriting cul- 

 ture as a fruit tree, viz. 



Sorbus Dome/tied) Houshold, or Cul- 

 tivated Service Tree. — Having pin- 

 nated or winged leaves, of many pair of 

 lobes, and an odd one ; hairy underneath^ 

 and large bunches of whitifh flowers, of 

 five roundifh petals, fucceeded by Pear 

 and Apple-ihaped reddifh fruit, in clus- 

 ters, containing three or four feeds, and 

 confifts of the following varieties, ripen- 

 ing in Autumn. 



Pear-shaped Service: 

 Apple-shaped Service. 



The trees grow thirty or forty feet 



high, adorned with winged leaves, and 



produces the flowers and fruit at the ends 



and fides of the younger branches, and 



O o on 



