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such as Oak, Deal, Walnut, Hickory, Cedar, Cypress, Locust 
and the like... .” 
11: 27—28. ‘‘Whereas that part of America or North Vir- 
ginia lying about 39 degrees on Delaware Bay called the Prov- 
ince of New Albion, ...and replenished with the goodliest 
woods of oaks . . . , mulberries, sweet cypress, cedars, pines and 
firres, 4 sorts of grapes for wine and raisons.” 
11: 28-30. “... and the woods bestrewed many moneths 
with chestnuts, wall-nuts and mast of several sorts to feed them 
(sheep). There the barren grounds have four kinds of grapes and 
many mulberries with ash elms and the tallest and greatest 
pines and pitch trees that I have seen. There are cedars, cy- 
presse and sassafras with wilde fruits, pears, wilde cherries, 
Pineapples and the dainty Parsemenas.”’ 
12: 3. “The names of those streets (of Philadelphia) are 
mostly taken from the things that spontaneously grow in the 
country, as Vine-Street, Mullberry-Street, Chesnut-Street, 
Wallnut-Street, Strawberry-Street, Cranberry-Street, Plumb- 
Street, Hickory-Street, Pine-Street, Oake-Street, Beech-Street, 
Poplar-Street and the like.” 
13: 73. “Thee need not collect any more Tulip Cones, 
Swamp Laurel Cones, Hickory, Black Walnut, Sassafras or 
Dogwood, Sweet gum, White Oak Acorns, Swamp Spanish Oak, 
nor Red Cedar berries; but all other sorts of acorns, Firs, Pines, 
Black Gum, or Black Haw, Judas Tree, Persimmon, Cherries, 
Plums, Services, Hop Tree, Benjamin, or allspice; All the sorts 
of Ash, Sugar Tree, Wild Roses, Black Beech, or Hornbeam; all 
sorts of flowering and berry bearing shrubs, Honey Locust, Lime 
Tree, Arrow Wood, a particular Locust, Guelder Rose, not any- 
thing can come amiss to thy friend and in particular to thy 
true friend. —P. Collinson.” 
13:75. “I am informed that the Jerseys is noted for pro- 
ducing abundance of Firs and Pines.” 
13:79. “Friend John, June 17, 1736. 
I have now a very curious account before me, sent by Paul 
Dudley from his house in Roxbury, New England, Oct. 24, 
1735, who very ingeniously describes the evergreens of New 
England, in two sheets of paper. This is his catalogue— : 
‘White Pine. Pitch Pine. Saplin or Pople Pine. Apple Pine. 
Hemlock, a small fir. Spruce tree, distinguished into white, 
