APPLE SERVICE. 
with hard seeds: and Linnseus places it in the 
third se6lion of his twelfth class, which includes 
those plants having flowers with from eleven 
to twenty stamina inserted in the empalement, 
and three styles. 
Of the Sorbus, there are three species ; the 
Aucuparia, the Domestica, and the Hebrida. 
The Aucuparia, is the Sorbus Foliis Pinnatis 
iitrinque glabris, or Service Tree with Winged 
Leaves which are smooth on both sides. This 
is the Sorbus Sylvestris Foliis Domestic^e similis, 
or Wild Service with Leaves like the Cultivated : 
commonly called, the Common Service Tree : 
Quicken; Quick Beam; Mountain Ash ; and, 
in the North, the Roan Tree. 
The Domestica, is the Sorbus Foliis Pin- 
natis subtusTormentosis, or Service Tree with 
Winged Leaves which are Woolly on their 
under sides. This is the Sorbus Sativa, or. 
Cultivated Service Tree, bearing eatable fruit; 
being, in fa6l, our Apple Service. 
The Hebrida, or Mongrel Service Tree, is 
a native of Gothland, where it grows to the 
heiglit 
