^4 Jub 1749- 



The fmooth lumach, or Rhus glabrdt 

 grows in great plenty here. I have no 

 where feen it fo tall as in this place, where 

 it had fonietimes the height of eight yards, 

 and a proportionable tliicknefs. 



Saffafras is planted here ; for it Is never 

 found wild in thefe parts, fort Ajim being 

 the moil northerly place where I have found 

 it wild. Thofe flirubs which were on the 

 ifland, had been planted many years ago -, 

 however, they were but fmall fhrubs, from 

 two to three feet high, and fcarce fo much. 

 The reafon is, becaufe the flem is killed 

 every winter, almofi down to the very root, 

 and mufh produce new fhoots every fpring, 

 as I have found from my own obfervations 

 herej and fo it appeared to be near the forts 

 AnnSi Nichoifo?2y and Ofwego. It will there- 

 fore be in vain 10 attempt to plant faffafras 

 in a very cold climate. 



The red Mulberry-trees (Moms rubra, 

 Linn.) are like wife planted here. I faw 

 four or five of them about five yards high, 

 which the governor told me, had been 

 twenty years in this place, and were brought 

 from more foutherly parts, fince they do 

 not grow wild near Montreal, The moil 

 northerly place, where 1 have found it 

 growing fpontaneoufly, is about twenty 

 Englijh miles north of Albany, as I have 



been 



