i66 May 1749. 



Some bad the feeds from Carolina, where 

 they have great plantations of cotton ; but 

 others got it out of fome cotton which they 

 had bought. They faid, it was difficult, at 

 firfr, to get ripe feeds from the plants which 

 were fown here ; for the fummer in Caro- 

 /'W, from whci, :e their firit. feed came, is 

 both longer and hotter than it is here. But 

 after the plants have been more ufed to the 

 climate, and hailened more than they were 

 formerly, the feeds are ripe in due time. 



At night I returned to Raccoon. 



May the 4th . C r a b - t r e e s are a fpecies 

 of wild apple trees, which grow in the 

 woods and glades, but efpecially on little 

 hillocks, near rivers *. In New *Jer[ey the 

 tree is rather fcarcs ; but in Penjyhama it 

 is plentiful. Some people had planted a 

 fmgle tree of this kind near their farms, on 

 account of the fine fmells which its flowers 

 afford. It had begun to open fome of its 

 flowers about a day or two ago; however, 

 molt, of them were not yet open. They 

 are exiclly like the bloffoms of the com- 

 mon apple-trees, except that the colour is a 

 little more reddilh in the Crab-trees -, though 

 fbme kinds of the cultivated trees have 



flowers 



* Pyrtts coronaria. Linn. Sp. plant, p. Mains fy iveS- 

 triujloribus odoratis. Gronov. Fl. Virginica. 55. 



