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middling-sized shrubs, which will make a beautiful 

 variety, both when in flower and when bearing 

 fruit. 



Wild Service-trees * grow to a considerable size 

 when properly managed, and are very much used 

 by wheelers, &c. on account of the wood being 

 all, what they call, heart-wood. 



Of the Maple-leaved Service- Tret. 



This tree grows wild at Paddington, and in 

 other parts of England, and is frequently forty 

 or fifty feet high, with a large spreading head, 

 making a fine appearance, and deserves a place 

 among forest trees and in extensive plantations 

 and gardens. It bears large bunches of white 

 flowers, succeeded by clusters of brown fruit, 

 which, when gathered full ripe, and laid by for 

 some time, till it becomes soft, has a very agree- 

 able tart flavour. 



This tree may be raised from seed, which should 

 be sown in Autumn, or by layers ; but those who 

 wish to raise them in the dwarf state should graft 

 them very low, and train them from six to eight 

 feet high. Some graft them on white-thorns ; but 

 I prefer their own stocks. If these dwarfs are 

 trained up with fine heads, they will have a very 

 good effect in shrubberies. If intended for 



* The fruit of the Wild Service is excellent food for Game 

 and other birds. 



