MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 175 



perly managed, and are very much ufed by wheelers, &c. on 

 account of the wood being all, what they call, heart- wood. 



Of the Maple-leaved Service-Tree. 



This tree grows wild at Paddington, and in other parts of 

 England, and is frequently forty or fifty feet high, with a large- 

 fpreading head, making a fine appearance, and deferves a place 

 among foreft-trees and in extenfive plantations and gardens. 

 It bears large bunches of white flowers, fucceeded by clufters 

 of brown fruit, which,- when gathered full ripe, and laid by 

 for fome time, till it becomes foft, has a very agreeable tart 

 flavour. 



This tree may be raifed from feed, which fhould be fawn jn \ 

 Autumn, or by layers ; but thofe who wifh to raife them in 

 the dwarf ftate fhould graft them very low, and train them 

 from fix to eight feet high. Some graft them on white- 

 thorns ; but I prefer their own flocks. If thefe dwarfs are 

 trained up with fine heads, they will have a very good effecl: 

 in ihrubberies. If intended for ffandards, train them up as 

 high as you can : they will have a beautiful appearance in 

 the back parts of Ihrubberies. They may alfo be trained 

 without grafting, and planned on lawns for ornament. Some 

 train them as Elpaliers ; but this I do not approve of, as they 

 are not fo ornamental, neither do they bear fo well, 



The wood of this tree is alfo very ufeful for mechanical 

 pur poles. 



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