LISTS Ot TREES, Sec. SECT. XIX. 



heating this way, bore a hole up the middle, and drive 

 fomething of iron in to fplit them open. 



Oak, the evergreen lorts are excellent timber, and 

 very ornamental in pleafure grounds: See page 27. 

 The red excrefcences upon the kcrmes eah, are occafL 

 cried by infects making infertions in the bark for depo- 

 siting their eggs, which caufing an extravafation of lap, 

 it there condenfes, and forms the little granulous fub- 

 fiances, ufed for fcarlet dying. 



Pine, there are feveral other forts of lefs eftimation, 

 The Weymouth and torch pines are the loftieft, and the 

 Carolina fwamp the low eft growers. To get put the 

 feed, obfeive what is faid above, as the pine cones are 

 harder to open than the firs. 



Pyracantha requires fome fupport of flakes, pales, 

 or wall, though it may be trained as a ftandard bufh, 

 or form an hedge impregnable. It is very pretty when 

 in full fruit; but it fo often miffes being fo, through 

 bad pruning, that it is got much out of repute : See 

 page :69. It does beft in a dry poor foil, and an 

 eaitern afpefr. Young cuttings, in June, will ftrike, 

 being potted in good earth, and fet in the Ihade till 

 autumn and then plunged in the ground under a warm 

 wall. See obfervations on the Arbutus above. 



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 VI. 



List of low evergreen trees and Jhrubs. 



3 Adam's needle com. and Virginian, pur. and wh:/. r. 



4 Alatemusy large, variety in leaf, pi. and ftr. /, /. Feb. 

 3 _ lower growing, ditto 



I Arbutus, trailing, or U<va Urfi.c.JI. L Nov* 

 I Andromeda'y box leaved, Canada, /.y//. c« July m. 

 4 Box-tree y white and yel. ftriped, c. /. See laft lift.' 



i ■ —* dwarf, plain, and ftriped leaved,^. /. c.f. 



Briar, fw. evergr. doub. red and yel, fi.ySi /. b. May 



