LISTS G£ TREES, &C. 



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OBSERVATIONS ON PARTICULAR TREES. 



Buckthorn, if raifed from feed, fow early in autumn, 

 as foon as the berries can be procured, and perhaps 

 fome may come up the following fpring, but moil of 

 them will lav another year. This is the cafe with 

 other feeds, mjweei briar, &c. See page 7S. 



Catalpa mould grow fingly, that it may have its 

 natural wide fpread, and, if poffible, let it be-on a plat 

 of grafs, where it will appear to great advantage. It 

 is very hardy ; but as it comes out late, it is advi fable 

 to give it a favourable afpect. 



Maple, of the fcarlets, there are the Virginian and fir 

 Charles Wager 's, both very ornamental, but the latter 

 moll fo. The Mountain hath mining leaves, and con- 

 tinues late in autumn. 



Magnolias are to be conndered as rather tender, 

 efpecially voung plants. The glaucous leaved is or 

 the loweft growth, (about ten feetj but all are elegantly 

 ornamental with their white flowers : There is alio a 

 blue flowered one. Let them have a dry foil, as all 

 tender plants mould, as well as a warm fituation. 



Mountain ajh produces its white flowers in May, lis 

 foliage is -pretty, and its fruit of red berries is one of the 

 greateft ornaments of autumn, coming very early, and 

 hanging all winter, if the blackbird, &c, will let them 

 alone. As it deferves the moft confpicuous fituation, 

 it will be proper to plant fome near thehoufe, and moft 

 frequented places, where birds may be difturbed from 

 their too frequent vifits. 



Pifiaraln, or date plum, is chiefly cultivated here as 

 ornamental for its mining leaves ; its fruit is, however* 

 eat by fome, like the medlar and fori, in a Hate of de- 

 cay. Houfe young plants in pots the firft winter : ^Al- 

 low this tree a dry foil and- (helter. 



Pijtachia, this is the hardieft of three forts. Treat 

 it as a tender plant, wlnlft young, for three or four 



O 6 years, 



