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CHAPTER XVII* 



OF THE SERVICE. 



The Cultivated Service^ the Wild Service, and the Maple-leaved 

 Service; tvith their Culture* 



There are three sorts of the Service-Tree cultivated in 

 England, viz. the Cultivated Service, the Wild Service, or 

 Mountain Ash, and the Maple-leaved Service. The first is a 

 native [of the warmer climes of Europe ; and the other two 

 grow wild in different parts of England. 



The Service belongs to the twelfth class of Linnaeus's 

 System, entitled Icosandria Trigynia. 



Of the Cultivated Service, 



This tree is well worth cultivating, both for its fruit and 

 for ornament. It is beautiful in the month of June when in 

 flower, and the fruit in autumn has a fine appearance, and grows to 

 a large size if the trees be kept thin, and not over4oaded with 

 w^ood. They may be planted in orchards among other fruit- 

 trees ; for, as they flower much later than apples and pears, 

 there will be no danger of the Farina intermixing with theirs. 

 They may also have a place in plantations in the pleasure 

 grounds, or singly on the lawn, or in the rows by the sides of 

 gravel-walks : In this case, they should be trained with straight 

 stems eight or ten feet high, and all the straggling branches 

 should be cut in, to assist them in forming handsome round 

 heads. These trees may be intermixed with thorns, and will 

 have a very good effect. 



We have only two sorts cultivated in the garden ; viz. the 

 Apple-Shaped, and the Pear-Shaped Service-Tree. 



These trees are propagated from seed, layers, and cuttings. 

 By raising them from seed you may perhaps obtain several va- 

 rieties ; but the best method of preserving the sorts, when you 

 have fine varieties is by grafting or budding. 



Train the stem, if for standards, six or eight feet high; 

 but if for dwarfs, about three feet high j which latter may be 



