Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS, 
the Siberian Crab, American Apple, and the fvveet- 
fcented Virginia Crab, both of the deciduous and ever¬ 
green kinds. 
Likewife, for foreft-tree plantations, may admit the 
Pear Tree particularly, raifed in a natural Hate, from 
feed of the fruit and fuckers from the roots, to run up 
in tall, ilraight ftems, without grafting, or, if thought 
proper, fome budded or grafted, and trained each with 
a fingle fhoot, to form a tall, clean ftem of fome con- 
iiderable length; as the trees grow lofty and of a large 
fize, and the wood is ufeftul in feveral trades, as turn¬ 
ers, button-mould makers. &c. and may therefore 
admit them in aflemblage with other deciduous kinds, 
as maple, beech, elm, alh, oak, &c. to form timber 
plantations and coppices of under-wood, and permitted 
to run up in their natural growth; and for which oc- 
cahons, they may be raifed either by the kernels of the 
fruit in a nurfery, and alfo fuckers from the roots of 
Pear Trees, or fome by budding, &c. and in all of 
which train up the plants in clean, fingle Hems, the top- 
Ihoot entire, to afpire in height ; and when three or four, 
to five, fix, or feven feet growth, tranfplanted where 
they are to remain, as above ;'or feeds or kernels may be 
fowed in drills in the places where the plants are always 
to Hand, to grow up for large trees, or as required. 
Quercus, O AK TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Monoecia, Polyandria, 
One Habitation, Many Males', 
Or Plants with Male and Female Flowers, dijlincl and 
apart, on the fame Tree, and the Males having many 
Stamina. 
THE Quercus furnifh many fpecies of fuperior, large, 
decidaous,. and ever-green trees, for ufeful and orna¬ 
mental plantations, moftly of great utility and value as 
foreft or timber trees, exceeding many others in the 
ftrength and durability of their timber, growing forty 
orfifty, to fixty or feventy, orfome near anhundred feet 
high, with confiderable branchy heads, garnilhed with 
middling and largifh, oblong and ovate, and fpear-lhape 
leaves, finuated, pinnatifid,. and intire in the different 
fpecies, and fmall, yellowifh male and female flowers, 
feparate on the fame tree, all without petals or flower- 
leaves; the males produced in lcofe catkins or amen- 
tums, each floret having a five-parted cup, and many 
fhort fiamina; and female flowers in clofe-fttting buds 
in hemifpherical, rough, thick, one-leaved, intire ca¬ 
lyxes, with an oval germen, and fingle, five-pointed 
ftyle; and the germen grows an oval nnt or acorn, 
fixed into the rough, permanent cup, ripening in au¬ 
tumn; and by which, fowed in that feafon or fpring, 
the trees arc generally propagated. 
The Species of OAK, confifting of deciduous and ever¬ 
green Kinds are, 
I . Deciduous Kinds. 
I. Quercus Robur — (Robur) or Common Englifh 
Oak. 
A moll large, lofty, deciduous tree, growing fixty 
to near one hundred feet high—the leaves (middling- 
Jize, dark-green) oblong, broadeft toward the top, finu- 
ated-acutely, with the angles obtufe.—Native of En¬ 
gland and other parts of Europe. (Loatny or any com¬ 
mon foil.) 
Varieties. —Common Oak, with the acorns fitting 
clofe to the branches. 
Common Oak, with pinnatedly-finuated 
leaves, and acorns on long foot-ftalks. 
Striped-leaved Common Oak. 
2 . Quercus alca —White American Oak. 
A large, deciduous tree, growing fifty or fixty feet 
high, with a whitifh bark—the leaves (middling or 
large, lighter-green) oblong, obliquely-pinnatifid, with 
the finufes angular-obtufe.—Native of Virginia. (Any 
common foil.) 
3. Quercus nigra-— Black American Oak* 
A middling, deciduous tree, thirty or forty feet high, 
with a dark-brown bark—the leaves (broad upward, 
Jhining-green ) wedge-lhape, flightly three-lobed.— 
Native of Virginia. (Any common foil.) 
4. Quercus Prinus —{Prinus) or Chefnut-leaved 
American Oak. 
A moll large, deciduous tree, fixty or feventy feet • 
high—the leaves (large, long, bright-green) oblong- 
ovate, pointed at both ends, finuated-fawed; the den¬ 
ticles round, uniform ; and very large acorns.—Native 
of North America. (Loamy or common foil.) 
5. Quercus Phellos —(Phellos) or Willow-leaved 
Oak. 
A large, deciduous tree, growing forty or fifty feet 
high—the leaves (middling, pale-green) fpear-fhape, 
fmooth, and intire.—Native of North America. (Any 
common foil.) 
Varieties. —Long-leaved, Willow-leaved Oak. 
Short-leaved, Willow-leaved Oak. 
Variable-leaved, Willow-leaved Oak. 
<5. Quercva 
