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thicker outer covers, as well as inward (hells, with 

 the kernel generally fmall and flirivelled. The tim- 

 ber of both kinds is hard and tough, and ufed for 

 axle-trees of carriages, &c. mill coggs and rounds, 

 and alfo for handles, &:c. for moft implements of 

 hufbandry. 



7. JoGLANs alba ovata. Shell-barked Hickery. 



This tree delights in a rich moift foil, generally 

 growing by creeks and rivers, often to the height 

 of feventy or eighty feet, and above two feet in 

 diameter. The bark is rough and flielly or fcaly. 

 The leaves are generally compofed of two pair of 

 lobes and an odd one, they are narrowed towards 

 the bafe, oval, and pointed at the extremity, and 

 fawed on their edges. The fruit is roundifli, but 

 rather flatted and indented at the ends. The outer 

 cover very thick and dividing into four parts, dif- 

 clofmg its nut, which is not very thick fliellM, con- 

 taining fweet kernel, preferable to the other kinds. 

 There are feveral varieties of this in America, fome 

 with nuts as large as our common Walnuts. 



8. JuGLANS pecan. The Pecan^ or Illinois Hickery. 



This tree is faid to grow plenty in the neighbour- 

 hood of the lUinois river, and other parts to the 

 weftward. The young plants raifed from thefe nuts, 

 much refemble our young Pig-nut Hickerys. The 

 nuts are fmall and thin flielled. 



JUNIPERUS. 



