THEIR PROPERTIES, &C. gj 



pride of the foreft, the glory of the Britiih Navy, 

 and the flay of the Nation ! 



The Oak is ornamental in the higheft degree, 

 taking it as a tree fimply, and abftractly from any 

 confideration of its great iifefulnefs. A young 

 oak, if in health, is rather elegant ; a grown 

 oak is beautiful ; and an aged oak is a very grand 

 object. It can hardly be placed wrong : it is in 

 character in the foreft, the grove, the park, the 

 lawn, and by the wayfide. In very bleak, ex- 

 pofed fituations, it will not attain to the fize of a 

 tree, and efpecially when planted fingle. When 

 fingle trees of oak are to be planted, it fhould be 

 done in their favourite foil, a ftrong deep loam, 

 on a dry bottom. 



THE PLANE. 

 (Platanus orientdis, and P. occidentalls.} 





Both of thefe fpecies, with their varieties,^ are 

 fine ornamental trees. In their native places, the 

 former in the Eaft, and the latter in North Ame- 

 rica, they grow to an amazing fize. The Eaftem 

 Plane, with its varieties, (called the Spanifh, and 

 the maple- leaved), are more efteemed than the 

 American kind, their leaves being larger and 

 more elegantly formed. The general outline of 

 the tree, however, differs but little. 



G Thefe 



