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OBSERVATIONS ON VEGETABLES. 
RENOVATION OF LEAVES. 
When oaks are quite stripped of their leaves by chaffers, they 
are clothed again soon after Midsummer with a beautiful foliage : 
but beeches, horse-chestnuts and maples, once defaced by those 
insects, never recover their beauty again for the whole season. 
ASH TREES. 
Many ash trees bear loads of keys every year, others never 
seem to bear any at all. The prolific ones are naked of leaves 
and unsightly; those that are sterile abound in foliage, and carry 
their verdure a long while, and are pleasing objects. 
BEECH. 
Beeches love to grow in crowded situations, and will insinuate 
themselves through the thickest covert, so as to surmount it all : 
are therefore proper to mend thin places in tall hedges. 
SYCAMORE. - 0 ^ : 
May 12. The sycamore or great maple is in bloom, and at this 
season makes a beautiful appearance, and affords much pabulum 
for bees, smelling strongly like honey. The foliage of this tree 
is very fine, and very ornamental to outlets. All the maples 
have saccharine juices. 
GALLS OF LOMBARDY POPLAR. v ^ 
The stalks and ribs of the leaves of the Lombardy poplar are 
embossed with large tumours of an oblong shape, which by in- 
curious observers have been taken for the fruit of the tree. 
These galls are full of small insects, some of which are winged, 
and some not. The parent insect is of the genus of cynips. 
Some poplars in the garden are quite loaded with these excres- 
cences. 
CHESTNUT TIMBER. 
John Carpenter brings home some old chestnut trees which 
are very long ; in several places the wood-peckers had begun to 
