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apples, pears, and plumbs, do, for the moil part, extremely well, 

 under proper management and culture, neither defective in fla- 

 vour nor fize ; not difdaining to be planted even near the fea, if 

 well flickered. 



Few counties produce a better ftore of wild plants. I fhall only 

 take notice of fuch as are mofl remarkable for their beauty, or 

 for their medical and economical ufes. 



i. The Bird-Cherry (f). In woods, by waters, plentifully. The 

 flowers are white, in large pendulous clutters, of an ageeeablc 

 fcent ; the fruit black, round at firft, and afterwards of a cord- 

 ated figure. Upon very old, tall trees, I have feen the fruit as 

 large as thofe of the garden black currant. It is of an agree- 

 able tafte in its full ripenefs, but the birds feldom let it continue 

 on the tree till it is in that ftate, commonly feeding upon it on its 

 firft changing from red to black. The alpine common people 

 are very fond of it. 



The Mountain-A/J}, or the Quicken-Tree (g). In woods, and about 

 rocks, by waters. The fruit is of a beautiful yellowifh-red, in 



pen- 



(f) Pfeudo-Liguftrum. Dad. Pempt. 777. bene. Cerafus avium nigra et racemofa. Ger. 

 1322. emac. 1504. Raj. Hift. n. 1549. Syn. iii. 463. Cerafus racemofa fylveftris frudlu 

 non eduli. C. B. Pin. 451. Town. Inft. 616. Boerh. Ind. A. n. 244. Padus Theophrafti. 

 Dill. Cat. Gieff. p. 66. Padus Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 309. 



Padus glandulis duabus foliorum fubjedlis. Royen* lugdb. p. 267. Hall. Helv. p. 357. 

 Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 185. Flo. Suec. p. 144. n. 396. Hag-berry Tree, vulgo, Narthumbr. 

 et Cumbr. 



(g) Ornus. Dod. Pempt. p. 834.. Onus. Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 289. Sorbus Sylvef- 

 tris. Cam. Epit. p. 161. bene. Ornus feu Fraxinus Sylveftris. Park. Theatr. 1419. Sor- 

 bus aucuparia, /, B. i. p. 62. Tourn. Inft. p. 634. Bacrh, Ind. A. tr. p. 248. Raj. 



T ?. Hift. 



