APPLE SERVICE. 
by some persons, that a branch of this tree 
can defend them from enchantment, or witch^ 
craft. Even the cattle are supposed to be pre- 
served by it from danger. The dairy-maid 
drives them to the summer pasture with a rod 
of the Roan Tree, and drives them home again 
with the same. In Strathspey, we are told, a 
hoop is made of the wood of this tree, on the 
First of May, and all the sheep and lambs are 
made to pass through it.'* 
The second sort, or Cultivated Service, 
grows naturally in the warmer parts of Eu- 
rope, where it rises to a great height, and 
becomes a large tree. In the south of France, 
and in Italy, the fruit is served up to the table 
in deserts ; but, in England, it has not been 
much esteemed, which has occasioned these 
trees to be so little cultivated. There are se- 
veral varieties of this fruit, which differ from 
each other in size and shape : some are like 
Catharine Pears, and nearly as large ; others 
are depressed at both ends, and shaped like 
Apples. Both these sorts arise from seeds of 
the same tree ; so that those who wish to have 
the largest and best kinds, should propagate 
them by grafting, or budding, from those trees 
which 
