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which, two Years ago, bore me near a Bufhel of fine 
Peaches. Our common Cherries are not fo good as the 
Kentiflj Cherries of England , and we have no Dukes, 
or Heart Cherries, unlels in two or three Gardens. 
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Trees of the W ood. 
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Some Years fince, I meafur’d a Tlatanus Occiden- 
talism or Button WoodTxzz (as they are called here) 
of nine Yards in Girt, and it held its Bignefs a great 
Way up. This Tree, when it was cut down, I am in- 
form’d, made twenty two Cord of Wood. . A Gentle- 
man tells me, that in the Foreft, he met with a ftreight 
Alh, that grew like a Pillar, of a great Height, and free 
from Limbs, that meafured fourteen Feet eight Inches 
round, near a Yard from the Ground \ and, the other 
Day, I met with a Saffafras Tree, that meaiur’d five 
Foot three Inches in Girt. I meddle not here with our 
noble Pines and Cedars, becaufe I defign to treat of 
them in a Chapter of the Evergreens of this Country. 
Among our Trees of quick and eafy Growth, the But- 
ton Wood before-mentioned, and the Locuft Iree, are 
the moil remarkable : As to the latter, by the Defec- 
tion Mr. Moore , while in New-England, gave me of 
the Manna Tree, our Locujl Free may be called the 
American Manna. I have known a Seed of it blown 
off from the Tree into my Garden, that took Root ofit- 
felf, and, in lefs than two Years, was got above fix Foot 
high, and as big about, as a common walking Cane. 
The Tlatanus I have frequently propagated, by cut- 
ting off Sticks of five or fix Foot long, and fetting them 
a Foot deep into the Ground in the Spring of the Fear, 
when the Seafon is wet ; they thrive belt in a moifi 
Soil. 
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