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Aquaticlc or wild Kind, becaufe it grows equally well in 

 raoift or dry Places ^ it yields a great deal of Seed. 



^jkacix. The Acacia, called the Comimn Acacia of America, was 



formerly much in Vogue. This is a Tree that does not 

 rife very high 5 its Wood is hard and uneaven, its Leaves 

 fmall, affording but little Shade, and its Boughs full of 

 Prickles. All this Tree could be valued for, formerly, 

 when they planted abundance of Walks and Arbors with 

 them, was, that it grows' very faft, and puts out Flowers in 

 - the Spring that have a very agreeable SmeJL But being a 

 Tree very fubjed to weep, having a rugged Bark, and very 

 -fmall Leaves, it is at prefent in no great Efteem. They 

 have got a Cuftom of heading it from Time to Time, 

 which makes it look even worfe than it would do. This 

 Tree alfo feeds, as well as the others. 



mic^trce. The Platanm^ or Plane-Tree^ is one of the nobleft 

 Trees that are ; '^tis not fo common in Fra?ice^ as in Italy 

 and Spaht^ by reafon it naturally loves hot Countries. This 

 Tree rifes very ftrait and beautiful, and yields abundance 

 of Shade : Its Wood is hard and inclining to white, as is al- 

 io its Bark, which is very fmooth : Its Leaf refembles that 

 of the Sycomore 'tis raifed from Seed in France^ but not 

 without fome Difficulty. 



'Jfp. 'The Afp, or Afpen-Tree, as well as the three follow- 



ing, is of the Nature of thofe that like the Water, which 

 makes them called Aquatick ; it fhoots up tall and ftrait ; 

 its Wood, which is whitiih and light, ferves for many Pur- 

 pofes 5 its Bark is fmooth, and inclining to white ; its 

 Leaves are round, of a pale Green, and always lhake with 

 the Icaft Breath of Wind, for which reafon the French call 

 it Le T'remble. There are fine Walks of it planted about 

 Canals and Ponds j- it grows very faft^ and is raifed by 

 Cuttings and Layers. 



Aider. The Alder-Tree grows very tall and ftrait ; its Wood 



is pretty much like that of the Afp, and its Leaf like that of 

 the Hafei its Bark is very fmooth, and of a blackifli Co- 

 lour. 'Tis of Ufe for feveral Works, but particularly for 

 making Pipes to convey Water in^ and is propagated as the 

 foregoing, by Sets and Layers. 



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