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LEATHER-CoAT-TREE. 
6 ae grows to a confiderable Height. 
The Bark is of a darkifh Colour. 
The Branches are many and ftrageling, . their Tops generally bending: 
downwards. 
' The younger Twigs are feemingly jointed. a Tee 
Thefe are cloathed with broad Leaves, reddith when young, whofe 
Stalks, as well as their Ribs, are then thickly covered with a pale-yellow 
Pile, or foft-pointed Sete. 
The Leaves, as they grow old, turn green, being then in Length about - 
Ten Inches, and Twelve in Breadth, having their middle, as well as their 
tranfverfe Ribs prominent and ftrong. : : eae ee) 
From the Bofoms of the Leaves rife many Six-inch long Spikes, fur- 
rounded with {mall Berries, red when ripe ; the Infide being likewife full 
of reddifh Pulp, inclofing feveral {mall darkifh Seeds. eS 
CramMMmy CHERRY-TREE; Lat, MaLpicHta. ~ 
A IS Tree grows to a confiderable Bignefs, covered with a greyifh 
Bark. : 
' The Leaves are in Bunches from Three to Five, upon the Tops of the 
leffer Twigs. 
~ Thefe are about Five Inches long, fharp-pointed, and near Two Inches 
and an half broad. - 
The Flowers are of a pale-yellow Colour ; and the fucceeding Fruit, 
when ripe, as big asa middling Cherry. 
Thefe grow in Clufters, of a fine red Colour. 
_ The Pulp is very clammy, and furrounds a great many {mall Seeds, 
The Buack CHERRY-TREE. 
HIS very much refembles the red Cherry-tree, except that the 
Leaves of the black Cherry-tree are fomewhat larger, {moother, 
and thicker, than the four Cherry. 
The Leaves often grow clofe to the Branches; and, when upon the 
lefler Twigs, they are pennated. 
From among thefe rife the Flowers, which (except in Colour, which is 
red) very much refemble thofe of the Coffee-tree. 
_ Thefe are fucceeded by {mall blackith Berries. 
The Rep CHERRY-TREE. 
ae IS Tree feldom grows above Highteen Feet high. 
Its Branches are numerous, but {mall, and cloathed with a great 
many deep-green round-pointed Leaves. 
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