viXT. XIX* LISTS OF TREES, &C. 



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* Oak Englifh, American forts, Spanifh, Italian, Scc.f. 



* Plane, Eaftern, Weftern, middle or Spanifh, /. I. c. May 



* Poplar, white, black, tremulous, and Carolina, r. l.f». m* 



* Service tree, the wild er maple leaved, j\ I. June 



* Sjcamore, is the great maple, which fee. 



* Walnut, the common, or royal, and black Virginian,/. 



* Willyw, white, or fijrer leared, purple and fweet, &c. 



%* for nnder^ivccd amongft foreit trees, the ufual forts 

 are alders, a/b, beech, birch, hazel, himbeani, falliiv, 

 -willow, and fometimes the -jujck-elm, common maple, poplar, 

 and fycamore. 



OBSERVATIONS ON PARTICULAR TREES. 



Alders, cuttings of it grow readily, and may be thick 

 truncheons a yard long, pointed, and thruft into foft 

 ground half way, or into a hole made with an iron bar. 

 This is the way alfo to propagate poplars, ivillows, and 

 fallows; alfo elders. There is a dwarf alder. 



A/b, the American forts do not grow near fo large 

 as the common Englifh* For the ornamental afhes, f<* 

 the next lift. 



Birch is reckoned the worft of timber, yet the wood 

 hag its ufes in feveral particular bufinefles. The 

 American forts grow much larger than the Englifo. 

 The tree is of that accommodating nature, that it will 

 grow in any foil or fituation, wet or dry. It is well 

 known, that a ivine is made of its fap, by boring holes 

 in full grown trees in fpring, before the leaves come 

 out ; from a number of trees a great deal may be col- 

 lected. Without being unpleafant, (if properly made) 

 birch wine is rehfhedby many, and is reckoned very me- 

 dicinal in fcorbutic, and other complaints.* There is 



* It has been the wifh of the author to fpeak of the me- 

 dical properties of many plants that have occurred in this 

 work, but room could not be allowed it. The procefs, &c, 

 of birch wine, with the properties of moll plants, will be found 

 in Mey rich's Family Herbal, 8vo. a good book. 



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