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The LOTE, or NETTLE TREE. 



jyje Species are : 



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1. The Nettle Tree, with black fruit, 



2. The Nettle Tree, with purple fruit. 



3. The Nettle Tkee, ^vith large yellow fruit. . 



4. The Ea^ftern Nettle Tree, with larger leaves and fruit. 



^J^"* H E fiiil of thefe trees is a native of Europe, the fecond 

 and third of America, and the fourth was difcovered by 

 the late Dr Tournefort in the Levant, who fent its fruit to the 

 Royal Garden at Paris, v\rhere they were raifed, and from thence 

 foon introduced to the Britifh gardens. They are all of them 

 hardy enough to bear our feverefl winters, in ordinary lituations, 

 after three or four years old, and, being a tree of admirable 

 iliade, beaut)', and ufe, deferves to be generally cultivated. 



It may be raifed either from feeds, (which if you can procure, 

 is the befc method), or by layers : If from feeds, fow them in 

 the fpring foon after they are ripe, (which is commonly in Ja- 

 nuary), in pots or boxes, about a foot deep, full of holes in the 

 bottom, covered with oyfler-fhells or broken tyles, and three or 

 four inches thick of rough ftoney gravel above them, to drain the 

 moifture, and prevent the earth from becoming heavy and four : 



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