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OBSEKVATIONS ON 



BEECH. 



Beeches love to grow in crowded situa- 

 tions, and will insinuate themselves through 

 the thickest covert, so as to surmount it 

 all : are therefore proper to mend thin 

 places in tall hedges. White. 



SYCAMORE. 



May 12. The sycamore, or great maple, 

 is in bloom, and at this season makes a 

 beautiful appearance, and affords much 

 pabulum for bees, smelling strongly like 

 honey. The foliage of this tree is very fine, 

 and very ornamental to outlets. All the 

 maples have saccharine juices. White. 



GALLS OF LOMBARDY POPLAR. 



The stalks and ribs of the leaves of the 

 Lombardy poplar are embossed with large 

 tumours of an oblong shape, which, by in- 

 curious observers have been taken for the 



