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LISTS ^OF TREES, &C. SECT. XIX. 



a method of catching the liquor, by putting into the 

 holes (deeply bored) fauce ts of elder . See next lift. 



Che/nut, ornamental. Seethe next lift. 



* Elm, the wych is the quickeft grower, and will 

 Sourifh in any foil; but the broad leaved is reckoned 

 the belt timber, and the fmalh leaved the moft orna^ 

 mental ; it fnotild have a good foil. The wych is eafily 

 raifed from feed, (fown dire&ly after it is ripe) but the 

 other forts are propagated from fuckers, or layers, or 

 grafting on the wych. In order to obtain fuckers, and 

 fhoots for fayer$,Jlools are to be formed by cutting down 

 fome young trees, almoft clofe to the ground. Trees from 

 layers are better than from fuckers. Obferve, that 

 whatever is to be propagated by Jayers, or fuckers, 

 makmgjlools is the way to procure them. 



Hornbeam, the common fort will grow very large in 

 fome foils, but the Virginian (flowering yellow) will 

 hardly reach thirty feet, and the hop not above twenty. 

 The hornbeam feathers down lower and thicker, than 

 any other tree, and the property of holding its decayed 

 leaves on all winter, adapts the common fort for a 

 fcreen from winds. See page 111. 



Nut tree, as timber, will be beft propagated from 

 nuts, either to remain where fown, or planted out 

 while young, keeping the ftems trimmed up, free of 

 fhoots, to about five or fix feet, (according to ftreogth) 

 and then to form a head, topping the leading {hoot for 

 the purpofe, which will occafion feveral branches to 

 proceed from the upper eyes ; and this is the way to 

 form all forts of trees to good heads. 



Oak, the Englijh produces the belt wood, but the 

 American forts are the fa'fteft growers, though they- do 

 not attain to the fize of the Englijh. ; A coo! ffrong 

 foil produces the handfomeft trees, and tougheft timber* 

 Oaks fhould not be above three or four years old. before 

 they are planted, for 'the older they are, the more cheek 

 they receive, and it is a tree that . does not tranfplant 

 well. Hence all the care .fhould be taken that can be 

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