to KINDS OF TREES, 



gathered into a heap, and prefled into pits made 

 in the fhape of a funnel, prepared in clay foil 5 

 and when fet on fire, it is covered with turf. The 

 oil, diftilling through the clay hole at the bottom 

 of the funnel, drops into a veflel placed to receive 

 it ; and it is then tunned into cafks made of the 

 hollowed trunks of trees. The pure limpid oil 

 fwims at top, and is in the greatefl requeft for 

 anointing leather on account of its antifeptic quali- 

 ty. The refiduum is thick and footy, and is em- 

 ployed for various common ufes." 



THE CHERRY, or Gean. 



(Prunus avtum.) 



The Wild Cherry, or Gean, is a well known,, 

 handfome, middle-fized tree, of peculiar beauty in 

 fpring when in flower, and in Auguft when in 

 fruit : In autumn, before its leaves begin to fall, 

 they exhibit beautiful red and yellow colours. It 

 is therefore very fit for the decoration of the park 

 and the lawn. At the fame time it is a proper 

 grove tree, and is admiflible in the foreft ^ where 

 indeed, as before obferved, it is often found grow- 

 ing in a natural ftate, having probably been fown 

 by birds. There are two varieties of the Gean, 

 the red, aad the black fruited j but they differ in 



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