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Chapter XXI. 

 The service TREE. 



The Species are : 



1. The tnie Service Tree. 



2. The manured Service Tree. 



3. The Maple-leav'd Service Tree. 



4. The Virginian wild Service, with leaves like the Straw- 



berry tree. 



5. The common wild Service Tree. 



6. The White Beam, or Area Theophrasti. 



7. The Quick Beam, in England commonly called the 



Mountain Ash, in Scotland the Rowan Tree. 



8. The Quick Beam, with ftrip'd leaves. 



'T^HESE plants, though not ufually propagated for common 

 Foreft-trees, are yet well worth our attention in all collec- 

 tions for ornament ; and both their fweet fmelling bloflbms ear- 

 ly in fummer, and large bunches of bright red fruit in autumn, 

 have a very pleafing effec^l in the wildernefs, or in clumps in 

 parks, lawns, (^-c, 



Th ey are all to be propagated by the fowing their feeds ; but 

 the four forts firft mentioned, like many other fruits, feldom 



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