450 Mr. CuTLER's Account of indigenous Vegetables, 
number of thefeicherry trees. By what means tare they »pro- 
duced? "The doctrine of equivocal, or fpontaneous generation, 
has long. been exploded. . Nature has not formed the feeds tor 
being wafted by the wind, Can it be fuppofed fach vaft num- 
bers were fcattered by birds à. Or, upon this fappofition, is 
there not - difficulty i in conceiving, that neither the long period 
of time which moft of them muft be fuppofed to have laid in 
the ground, nor the .intenfe heat, occafioned by burning fuch 
Peorligions pis of wood, fhould Ato their vegetive quality ? 
DIG Tr N: Déc 
ETEA Linn. Gen. Plant. s47. 
"Crateghi foliis cordatis repandi-angulatie prea shir 
Syft. Nat. 
“HAWTHORN, Bloffoms white. Fruit red. In dry land. May. 
It is faid that an ardent {pirit may be diftilled from the fruit: 
rg a, Jolis lanceolato-ovatis ferratis glabris, ramis fpi- 
ej. Syft. Nat. 
 THORNBUSH. — ir uda iwhite: —— ih Commen án 
hedges.” ie ig JA 
St BOLO Vg St PENTACON A 
"PYRUS. Linn. Gen. Plant. sso, 
Pyrus foliis ferratis, fior ibus corymbofis... Syft. Nat. 
BASTARD PEAR. Juniper. A íhrub which blooms very early 
“in the fpring, commonly before other trees are leaved out. Blof- 
‘foms white. The fruit is redith, fmall, nearly round, and well 
tafted. It ripens in June ; but birds are fo fond of it that they 
“rarely fuffer it to remain until it is ripe. At is eaten by. chil- 
. en i in milk. Common i in moift land. 
gm SPIRAEA. Lion. Gen. Plant. 554. 
“Spires foliis lanceolatis, obtufis didi nudas, floribus. duplicato 
i races. Syft. Nat. uk MEADOW 
