OF FOREST-TREES. 



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CHAPTER X. 



The SERVICED 



1. SoRBUS, the SERVICE-TREE (of which there are four sorts) is CHAP, 

 raised of the chequers, or berries, which being ripe, that is rotten, ^"^^^ 

 about September, and the pulp rubbed off clean from the stones in dry 

 sand, and so kept till after Christmas, may be sown like Beech-mast, and 



°> Of the Wild Service there are numerous species : 



1. CRAT^GUS (ARIA) foliis ovatis insequaliter serratis, subtus tomentosis. Lin. Sp. 

 PI. 681. Service with oval leaves, unequally sawed, a?id woolly on their under side. Crataegus 

 folio subrotundo, serrato, subtus incano. Tourn. Inst. R. H. 633. Aria. Dalech. Hist. 202. 

 — Sorbus Alpina. Bauh. Hist. i. p. 65. The white-beam, or white-leaf tree. 



This tree rises to the height of thirty feet, and grows naturally upon the chalky hills of Kent, 

 Surrey, and Sussex. The young shoots have a brown bark covered with a mealy down.— 

 The leaves are oval, of a light green colour upon their upper side, but white on their under, 

 having many prominent transverse nerves running from the midrib to the border. They 

 are unequally serrated. The flowers are produced at the end of the branches in May. — 

 These grow upon mealy foot-stalks, and are succeeded by red berries, which ripen in 

 autumn. 



2. CRATAEGUS ("torminalis) foliis cordatis septangulis : lobis infimis divaricatis. • 

 Lin. Sp. Plant. 681. Service with heart-shaped leaves, having seven angles, whose lower lobes 

 spread asunder. Crataegus foliis cordatis acutis : lacinulis acutis serratis. Hort. Cliff. 187. 

 Mespilus, apii folio, sylvestris non spinosa, seu Sorbis Torminalis. Bauh. Pin. 454. 

 Sorbus Torminalis et Cratasgus Theophrasti. Bauh, Hist. i. p 63. The maple-leaved 

 service. 



This sort grows naturally in many parts of England, and is chiefly found upon strong soils ; 

 it formerly grew in great plenty in Cane-Wood, near Hampstead ; and lately there were some 

 young trees growing in Bishop's- Wood, near the same place: In many parts of Hertfordshire 

 there are large trees now growing. It rises to the height of forty or fifty feet, with a large 

 trunk, spreading at the top into many branches, so as to form a large head. The young 

 branches are covered with a purplish bark, marked with white spots, and are garnished with 

 leaves placed alternately, standing on pretty long foot-stalks ; these are cut into many acute 

 angles, like those of the Maple-tree, and are near four inches long, and three broad in the 

 middle, having several smaller indentures toward the top, of a bright green on their upper 

 side, but a little woolly on their under. The flowers are produced in large bunches toward 

 the end of the branches ; they are white, and shaped like those of the Pear-tree, but smaller. 



