wild-service tree, hawthorn, &c.; a genus of the digynia order, belonging to the iocandra clas of plants. There are nine species; all of the tree and shrub kind, hardy and deciduous; valuable for economical and ornamental purposes in gardening. They rise from 5 to 50 feet in height, adorned with simple leaves, in some divided, in others entire. Their flowers are of a white colour, pentapetalous, and appear in May and June, succeeded by bunches of red berries in autumn. They are raised abundantly from seeds in the full ground; and to continue the varieties, of which there are a great number distinct, they may be budded or grafted upon stocks of the common hawthorn; for all the sorts will readily take upon that stock or upon one another. The haws, or berries of the hawthorn, never fail to ripen abundantly; and may easily be collected from the hedges and inclosures of fields in September and October; but all the sorts may be had cheap enough from the nursery-men; and the best time to sow them is soon after they are ripe; that is, in October or November, or very early in the spring, in beds of light earth, either broad-cast or in drills, and cover them an inch, or half an inch deep. But, as most of these seeds frequently

* There can be no doubt that her pious majesty was, from the first, determined to bring Cranmer to the stake; and her reason is obvious. If his being a Protestant had been his only crime, his recantation would have been sufficient. But she remembered him as the instigator of her mother's divorce, and this she could never forgive. For this crime even his death was an insufficient atonement. She determined first to make him renounce his religion, by flattering him with the assurance of pardon; by which diabolical policy she intended at once to humble the prelate, and triumph over the protestant cause. As to Cranmer's conduct on this occasion, some think he acted like a wise man. When the question was, recant or burn, he prudently chose the former; but when he found that he had been infamously deceived, and that his fate was inevitable, he repented of what he had done, and heroically thrust into the fire the hand which had signed his recantation. If his zeal had not overpowered his prudence, he would have left the kingdom when Mary came to the crown. frequently remain in the ground till the second spring; it is therefore customary with many, previous to sowing, to bury them in a heap in a trench. This is to be done in a dry-lying land, and they will be all the while preparing for vegetation. If buried in October, November, or December, they may be suffered to remain in the ground for a whole year. If they are then sowed as above directed, they will all mostly come up the spring after; though it is observed, that those sowed at once in the beds an inch or two deep, generally come up freely the second spring after sowing, and most commonly shoot stronger and more regular than when the other method is followed.