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The bird CHERRY, ia Scotland called the Hagberry. 



T H O', in catalogues, tliis is placed in the third or lowefl 

 growing clafs of trees, that is, from fifteen to thirty feet high, 

 yet I have feen it above forty, and have raifed many of them 

 jnyfelf above thirty feet, at fixteen years old. It is a plant of 

 .extraordinary beauty when in bloom, the blofToms being fo 

 thick as to cover the leaves, when the whole tree is as white as 

 fnow, and .has an admirable eiFedl amongft other flowering 

 plants^ 



It grows freely from cuttings, which ought to be planted in 

 Eebruary, in a lhady border, in drills cut down with the fpade, 

 about eight inches deep, and two buds of the cutting left above 

 ground ; let the lines be two feet diftant, and the plants nine or 

 ten inches in the line ; where, keeping them clear of weeds, and 

 digging the ground between them, they may continue two 

 years. 



After that time, remove them to anotlier fpot, cutting away 

 the faperfluous roots and branches, and plant them in lines, three 

 and a half feet diflant, and eighteen inches afunder in the line j 

 clean and dig the ground as before, and let them remain two or 

 three years longer, when they will be of proper lize to plant 

 where they are to remain. 



This plant is extremely hardy, and will grow in almoft any 

 foil, but chiefly afiects a deep, moifl:, feeding mould, where it will 

 make great advances fliddenly. The wood of it is ufeful tot 

 many difierent purpofes in hufl:/andry. 



