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TREATISE ON 



Chapter XXIV. 

 The TACAMAHACA TREE. 



' I " HIS tree grows fpontaneoufly on the continent of America, 

 where the inhabitants wound the bodies of them in the 

 fpring, from whence flows a balfam much efteemed by the phy* 

 ficians in thofe countries ; and it is hardy enough to bear our 

 fevereft winters. 



It is eafily propagated by cuttings planted about the middle 

 of , February, in rich mellow earth, fhaded from the mid-day 

 fun, and watered in dry weather, where, in one year, if the 

 cuttings were ftrong, they will grow upwards of three feet 

 high. 



The fucceeding February, remove the cuttings to a nurfery 

 of any good middling deep foil ; fmooth the extremities of their 

 roots ; cut off the ftrong fide branches, and plant them in rows 

 three feet diftant and eighteen inches afunder in the row ; give 

 them a plentiful watering ; keep the ground clean ; dig between 

 the rows in autumn ; and let them continue in this nurfery two 

 or three years, when they may be tranfplanted to the places in 

 which they are intended to remain. 



This is a quick-growing graceful plant, and juftly claims a 

 place in the wildernefs, or other ornamental plantations. The 



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