^02 OBober 1748. 



bring forth flowers, with the firft mild 

 weather in the next year. The buds were 

 at prefent quite hard, and all their parts 

 prefled clofe together, that the cold might 

 by all means be excluded. 



The black Walnut trees had for the great- 

 eft part dropt their leaves, and many of 

 them were entirely without them. The 

 walnuts themfelves were already fallen off. 

 The green peel which enclofcd them, if 

 frequently handled, would yield a black 

 colour, which could not be got off the- 

 fingers in two or three weeks time, though 

 the hands were wafhed ever fo much. 



The Cornus jlorida was called Dogwood 

 by the Englijh, and grew abundantly in the 

 woods. It looks beautiful when it is adorn- 

 ed with its numerous great white flowers in 

 fpring. The wood is very hard, and is 

 therefore made ufe of for weaver's fpools, 

 joiner's planes, wedges, &c. When the 

 cattle fall down in fpring for want of 

 ftrength, the people tie a branch of this 

 tree on their neck, thinking it will help 

 them. 



OSloher the 19th. The Tulip tree grows 

 every where in the woods of this country. 

 The botanifts call it Liriodendron tulipifera, 

 becaufe its flowers both in refpedl to their 

 fize, and in refped: to their exterior form, 



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