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mellow, before they are eatable, efpecially 

 the Wild Service berries: — and confill of the 

 following fpecies and \ arietie^ : 



Bcrry-fkaped Sweet 



Service 

 Pen r-fh aped Sweet 



Service 



Apple-fhaped Sweet 

 Service 



Wild, or Sour Ser- 

 vice. 



Thefe trees are trained principally in ftand- 

 ards, and planted in gardens and orchards ; 

 but more generally the cultivated or Sweet 

 Service, or a few trees of the different forts, 

 may be admitted, to encreafe the variety, in 

 the fruit-tree colle£lion ; and of which the 

 legitimate or true Service produces much 

 larger fruit than the wild, being fometimes 

 the iize of fmall apples and pears, and, when 

 ripe, eats very agreeably, and is therefore in 

 the molt general eflimation. The other grows 

 wild in woods, in England, &c. and is i'ome- 

 times admitted in gardens j produces large 

 bunches of berries, like havy's, but the berries 

 larger, of a brownifh-red colour, ripe in Oc- 

 tober, when being gathered, and hung up in 

 any dry apartment, they keep a month or 

 two in Winter, and, according as they become 

 foft, are proper for eating, being jf a tartiflt 

 agreeable relifh. But the Sweet Service is a 

 native originally of the fouthern parts of Eu- 

 rope, and in this country is nbtamed only by 

 culture in gardens and plantations. 



The trees are propagated orraifed bygraft- 

 ing and budding the improved or different 



varieties 



