44 A DISCOURSE

use for the joiner and carpenter, and to make hoops, bows, wheels, andeven ribs for small vefsels, instead of Oak, &c. though the fruit and theleaves have not the due value with us, which they deservedly enjoy inother places of.the world.

2. But it is not here I would recommend our ordinary black fruit-bearer, though that be likewise worth the propagation, but that kind

raised for that use, the tree should not be suffered to grow tall. The leaves should be shornoff along with the tender twigs, which injures the plant much lefs than pulling them bythe hand. This kind should be raised from seeds procured from Italy or the south ofFrance .

4. MORUS (tinctovi.i) foliis oblique cordatis aeuminatis hirsutis. Mulbeny with oblique,

heart-shaped, acute-pointed, hairy leaves. Moms fructu viridi, ligno sulpliureo tinctorio. Sloan.

Hist. Jam. 2. p. 3. Mulberry with a green fruit, whose wood dyes a sulphur colour. Fustick

WOOD.

This tree is better known by the title of Fustiek, which is ..given to the wood, than by its fruit,which is of no estimation. It grows naturally in.most of the islands in the West-Indies , butmore plentifully in the Bay of Campeaehy, where it abounds greatly. This wood is oneof the commodities exported from Jamaica , where it grows in greater plenty than in anyother of the British islands. This tree, in the countries where it grows naturally, rises to theheight of sixty feet and upward. The bark is of a light-brown colour, with some shallowfurrows. The wood is firm, solid, and of a bright yellow. It sends out many branches onevery side, covered with a white bark, and garnished with- leaves about four inches long,which are broad at their base, and indented at the foot-stalk, where they are rounded ; butone side is broader than the other, so that they are oblique to the foot-stalk; these diminishgradualte, and-end in acute points ; they are rough like those of the common Mulberry ,of a dark green, and stand upon short footstalks. Toward the end of the young branchescome out short catkins of a pale herbaceous colour; and in other parts of the same branchesthe fruit is produced, growing upon short foot-slalks. The fruit is as large as a nutmeg,of a roundish form, full of protuberances like the common Mulberry , green within and on the-outside, and of a luscious sweet taste when ripe. This species is too tender to thrive in thi scountry,- unlefs preserved in a warm stove. There are several of the plants now growingin the Chelsea garden, which were raised from seeds sent from Jamaica by William.Williams, Esq. withmany other curious sorts, which are natives of that island. The seeds, 0 f this plant come up freely ou a hot-bed; and when the plants are fit to remove, they■ should each be planted in a separate small pot, filled with fresh light earth, and plunged into,a hot-bed of tanner’s bark, and shaded from thesun till they have taken new root. Let them-be treated in the same way as other plants from those hot countries, always keeping themin the tan-bed in the stove, where they will make good progrefs. These plants retain theirileaves great part of the year in the stove.

5. MORUS ( papyrifeRsi) foliis palmatis, fructibus hispidis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 1399.

Mulbeny with hand-shaped leaves andprickly fruit. Morus sativa, foliis urticse mortuK, cortice