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fore, they grow upon any foil, bui; profper beft where the 

 ground is wrought moft about them. The ufes of this 

 tree are many : I have often feen good walking canes 

 made of lis bough"-; and the whetlright and hufhandman 

 apply it to many ufes: In fliort, I know no tree fo capa- 

 ble to make a large garden pretty, by i:s delicious flowers 

 in the fpiing, and its charming fcarlet coloured truit in 

 autumn; and, when ready tor cutting, of fuch general 

 ufe, 



I (liall next proceed to the culture of another tree, 

 which likewife yields very beautiful flowers, and the cu- 

 rious enamel of whofe wood, richly deferves the carpen- 

 ter's nicefl: care. Was it more generally known, it could 

 not fail to be more elleemed, and confequently more cul- 

 tivated. 



The Laburnum, or Peafe-cod Tree. 



BOTANICALLY named Citifus Alpinus latifolius, 

 fiore ramofo pendulo longiorit oj Tournejort. Their 

 flowers are produced in May in very long yellow coloured 

 fpikes, which are fucceeded by long cods like Peafe, which 

 include their feeds, and it is from the form of thefe that 

 the tree receives the name of Peafe-cod -tree. 



It is propagated from feeds, which are ufually fown in 

 February or Marchf on a bed of good frefh light earth, 

 covering them with an inch of the fame mould ; and 

 in fix weeks after tJiey will appear above ground. If 

 the weather be dry, you fhould water them as occafion 

 requires. 



If your trees have grown very tall the firfl year, you 

 may tranfplant them into the nurfery, planting them in 

 rows three feet difl:ance, and one foot afunder in the rows, 

 laying on the roots of thefe young plants a good deal of 

 ftraw in the winter time, to protecl their fibres from the 

 feverities of the froft, and in fummer from the parching 

 rays of the fun. In the nurfery, if they like the foil, 

 they will grow very fafl, and in two years muft be plant- 

 ed out into the places where they are to remain; for if 

 you fufFer them to continue longer in the nurfery, it will 



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