450 Mr. Cutler's Account of indigenous. Vegetables, 



number of these cherry trees. By what means are they pro- 

 duced ? The doctrine of equivocal, or spontaneous generation, 

 has long been exploded. Nature has not formed the seeds for 

 being wafted by the wind. Can it be supposed such vast num- 

 bers were scattered by birds? Or, upon this supposition, is 

 there not difficulty in conceiving, that neither the long period 

 of time which most of them must be supposed to have laid in 

 the ground, nor the intense heat, occasioned by burning such 

 prodigious piles of wood, should destroy their vegetive quality ? 



DIGYNIA. 

 CRAT^GUS. Linn. Gen. Plant. 547. 

 CratcBgus foliis cordatis repando-anguldtis serratis glabris. 

 Syst. Nat. 



HA WTHORN. Blossoms white. Fruit red. In dry land. May. 

 It is said that an ardent spirit may be distilled from the fruit. 



CratcBgus foliis lanceolato-ovatis serratis glabris, ramis spi- 



nosis. Syst. Nat. 



THORNBUSH. Blossoms white. Fruit red. Common in 



hedges. May. 



PENTAGYNIA. 



PYRUS. Linn. Gen. Plant. 550. 



Pyrus foliis serratis , floribus corymbosis . Syst. Nat. 



BASTARD PEAR. Juniper. A shrub which blooms very early 

 in the spring, commonly before other trees are leaved out. Blos- 

 soms white. The fruit is redish, small, nearly round, and well 

 tasted. It ripens in June ; but birds are so fond of it that they 

 rarely suffer it to remain until it is ripe. It is eaten by chil- 

 dren in milk. Common in moist land. 



SPIR^A. Linn. Gen. Plant. 554. 

 Spircea foliis lanceolatis obtusis serratis nudis , floribus duplicato- 

 racemosis. Syst. Nat. MEADOW. 



