OF TREES, i 4 £ 
may immediately know, when he fees one fpe- 
cies of trees in leaf, what fpecies will be next 
in leaf. Nor do we hardly ever find this order 
of Flora tranfgrefied. He who fhould imagine 
he had found the true caufe of this phenome- 
non in the different depths of the roots of dif- 
ferent trees would be miftaken *, for then fhrubs 
would always be in leaf before trees of one* 
and the fame kind * which yet rarely happens. 
This phenomenon therefore arifes without 
doubt from fome other caufe, hitherto undif- 
covered, and perhaps explicable only by the 
different texture of the tree. 
The order of the leafing of trees with us is 
as follows. 
1 Red elder 
2 Honey fuckle 
3 Goofeberry 
4 Red currant 
5 Spiraea f rut ex 
6 Bird cherry 
7 Spindle tree 
8 Shrub cinquefoil 
9 Common elder 
10 Privet 
1 1 l$uicken tree 
12 The ofier 
13 Alder 
14 Sea buckthorn 
1 5 Apple tree 
16 Cherry tree 
17 Water elder 
1 8 Birch 
19 Hafel 
20 Elm 
2 1 Dog rofe 
22 Pear tree 
23 
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