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It is very remarkable in this tree, that the more uncul- 

 tivated the foil is, the morfe beautiiul is their wood, and 

 better for the cabinet-maker's ufe than what grows in a 

 richer foil. 



If you deilgn to plant walnut trees for fruiting, tliey 

 mufl: be fown in beds. Two years after, they muft be 

 tranfplanted into the nurfery ; when they have grown 

 two years more, they will be fit to plant out into the 

 places where they are to remain, and to be treated in the 

 fame manner as I directed for theChtfnut; with this 

 peculiar difference, however, that you are to plant the 

 Walnuts no lefs than twenty-five or thirty feet diflant 

 one from another, for the fake ot their fruits and the 

 extending of their branches; for it is very obfervable, 

 that when Walnut trees are planted for fruiting, and 

 have been frequently tranfplanted, and their radical or 

 top root lopt a little, that not one in a thoufand of them 

 grows erecl in its flem, but difgerfes its branches at a 

 great diftance from the trunk of the tree; and the more 

 crooked and pervading thefe branches are, you are furc 

 of the larger crops of fruit. I next proceed to treat of 

 a very beautiful tree. 



The Quickbeam, or Roane Berry Tree. 



THIS tree, for its beautiful flowers in May^ and its 

 very handfome fcarlet fruit in autumn, yields in 

 beauty to no tree I know, efpecially if we confider the 

 very cre6t flature to which in a fhort lime it attains. This, 

 together with its refifting all the inclemencies ot our cli- 

 mate, thriving where few other trees will profper, makes 

 it defcrve our utmoft care and culture to prop;igate it. 

 It is of the Sorbus tree kind, and is botanically named 

 Sorhus aucuparia "Jobannis Bobini. This tree delights in a 

 moift leofe foil, and may be eafily propagated from ihe 

 berries, which it produces in great quantities: Thefe, af- 

 ter picking away the pulp from about them, may be 

 fown in November or March, where ihcy may continue 

 two years; and afterwards be tranfplanted out into the 

 places uhtre they are to remain for good. As I faid be- 

 fore. 



