APPLE SERVICE. 
height of twenty or thiity feet. It has half- 
phmated leaves, very downy underneath ; and 
clusters of white flowers, which are succeeded, 
in autumn, by bunches of round reddish berries. 
The first, or Common Servic-e, grows wild 
in many parts of England : but, in the southern 
counties, it is seldom seen of any great mag- 
nitude ; for the trees are commonly cut down, 
and reduced to underwood. In the north, and 
particularly in Scotland, as well as in V/ales, 
where they are permitted to grow, there are 
trees of very large size, some of them being 
upwards of thirty feet high, with straight stems, 
and regular branching heads. The stems are 
covered with a smooth grey bark; but tiie 
branches, while young, have a bark of a pur- 
plish brown colour. The leaves are winged : 
they are composed of eight or nine pair of 
long narrow lobes, terminated by an odd one ; 
the lobes being about tv/o inches l.ang, and 
half an inch broad at the base, ending in acute 
points, and sharply sav/ed on their edges. Th@ 
leaves of the young trees, in the spring, are 
hoary on their under side, Vv^hich goes off 
about Midsummer ; those on the older branches 
have very little at ' any season. The fiowers 
