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« blow early in the fpring, before the leaves appear, 
« and continue for two or three weeks, they make 
« a mod elegant appearance. They are fo lowed 
“ by pretty large four-winged fruit, which likewiie 
“ hang in bunches, each containing four kernels, 
“ that are very agreeable to the tahe. 
This tree is mentioned by Catefby, V ok 1. p. «4- 
and called Frutex padi foliis non ferratis, floribus mo- 
nopetalis albis, campaniformibus, &c. &c- 
I have not heard that it was cultivated in England, 
till about four years ago, when the Dodor fent me 
over from Carolina a large parcel, of the leeds, which 
I dihributed among many curious gardeners, and 
others : but I cannot find any one that it has fuccceded 
fo well with as Mr. James Gordon, gardener at Mile- 
end, a man, who feems to be pofTefTed of a knowlege 
peculiar to himfelf, in railing all the rarer, and moft 
difficult exotics from feeds, layers, or cuttings. He 
informs me, that it hands our winter in the open air, 
without any fhelter ; which confirms what Mr Clay- 
ton of Virginia has lately wrote, that it hands even 
the feverity of the winter of that country. So that it 
may, in a little time, prove a molt agreeable orna- 
ment to our gardens in the fpring. 
About two years ago, I received from Governor 
Ellis of Georgia another fpecies of this tree, which 
was fent him by Mr. De Brahme, from Auguha in 
Georgia, three hundred miles up the. river Savannah. 
The fruit of this kind has two wings, as defcnbed 
in the Plate, at B. [Fide Tab. XXII.] 
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