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JEmhyo's of the Truit, rch'uh are fro- 

 dticed on fepareite Tarts of the fame 

 Tree, are turgid, and do after-wards 

 become large fpkerical Bails, con- 

 taming many oblong Seeds, intermix'd 

 Tpith Down. 



The Species arc ,• 



1. Platanus; Orientalis, verus. 

 Tark. Theat. The true Oriental 

 Vlane-Trce. 



2. Platanus ; Occidentalij, aut 

 Virnnienfis, Far!:. Theat. The Well- 

 ern or Virginian Flane-Tree. 



3. PLATAKUSi Orientalis, Aceris 

 folio. T. Cor. The Maplc-lcav'd 

 Flane-Tree, 



4. An Platamus ; Americar.tiSy 

 foltis oblongis ex ad-verfo nafccntibiis. 

 The Button-Tree i tidgo. 



The firfl of thefe Trees (though 

 the firfl: known Sort in lurcpe) Is 

 lefs common th.in the fccond i 

 which has been introduced fince 

 the Znglifh fettled in Virginia ; which 

 may be, in a great meafare, owing 

 to the latter Sort being much eafi- 

 cr to propagate than the former ; 

 tor every Cutting of this, it plan- 

 ted in a moift Soil, juft; before the 

 Tree bcp^ins to fiioot, will take 

 Aoot, and in a few Years make 

 very large Trees ; whereas the firft 

 is only propag.ited from Seeds or 

 by LiSyers. 



The third Sort, although by fome 

 fuppos'd to be a dilt:n6l Species 

 from either of the foimcr, yet is 

 no more but a feminal Variety of 

 the hi ft; for I have had many 

 Plants which came up from the 

 Seeds of the iiiil; Soit, which ri- 

 pen'd in the Vkyfck-Garden, which 

 do mod of them degenerate to this 

 third Sort, which in the manner 

 of its Leaves, fl-ems to be very 

 dilfcrcnt from either, and might 

 reaibnably be liippos'd a diftindl 

 Sort, by thofe who have not tra- 

 ced its Original. 



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The fourth Sort here mention'd 

 was lent from Carolina, by the 

 Nume of Button-Tree, and by the 

 Account fent with it, feems to be 

 a Sort of B lane-Trees, though the 

 Manner of this Tree's growing is 

 very different from any of the o- 

 ther Sorts; but as it hath not pro- 

 duced either Flowers or Fruit in 

 England, fo I cannot determine 

 whether it be a true Flane-Tree or 

 not. 



Thefe Trees delight to grow on 

 a moift, rich Soil, on which they 

 will arrive to a prodigious Size in 

 a few Years, and during the Sum- 

 mer Seafon do afford a glorious 

 Shade; their Leaves being of a pro- 

 digious Size, efpecially on a good 

 Soil, fo that there is fcarcely any 

 Tree at prefent in England, which 

 does afford fo good a Shade. But 

 the Backwardnefs of their coming 

 cut in Spring, together with their 

 Leaves fading early in Autumn, has 

 occafioned their not being fo gene- 

 rally efteem'd, as otherwife they 

 would be. 



The firfl: Sort was brought out 

 of th'e Levant to Rofne, where it 

 was cultivated with much Cofl: and 

 Indufl:ry : The greatefl: Orators and 

 Statefmcn among the Romans, took 

 great Pleafure in their Villa's which 

 were farrounded with Flatnnus j 

 and their Fondnefs to this Tree be- 

 came lb great, that we frequently 

 read of tiieir irrigating them with 

 IVine inftrad of Mater. Bliny af- 

 firms, that there is no Tree what- 

 fbever which ib well defends us 

 from the Heit of the Sun in Sum- 

 TP.CT, nor that admits it more kind- 

 ly in Vv^•nrer, for the Branches be- 

 ing produced at a proportionable 

 Diftance, to the Largenefs of therr 

 Leaves (which is what holds through 

 all the different Sorts of Trees yet 

 known) ib that when the Leaves 



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