The Ufeful Family Herbal, 
q The PINE TREE. z 
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A Large and beautiful Tree, Native of Staly, 
: * but kept in our Gardens. We have a wild 
_ Kind of Pine in the North, called Scotch Fir, but 
-° itis not the fame Tree. ~The Trunk of the true 
Pine, is covered with a rough brown Bark, the 
Branches with a fmoother, and more redifh. The 
Leaves are long and flender, and they grow al- 
ways two from the fame Bafe, or out of the fame 
Sheath, they are of a bluith green Colour, and 
are a little hollowed on the Infide: The Flowers 
are {mall and inconfiderable, they ftand in a kind 
of Tufts on the Branches ; the Fruit are Cones of 
.abrown Colour, large, long, and blunt at the 
Top. Thefe contain between the Scales certain 
_ white Kernels of a fweet Tafte, and covered with 
a thin Shell. Pe ee 
Thefe Kernels are the Part ufed, and they are — 
_ excellent in Confumptions, and after long Llnefs, 
; pice by way of Reftorative. An Emulfion may 
_ Be made by beating them up with Barley Water, 
- and this will be of the fame Service with com- 
mon Emulfions for Heat of Urine. ar 
The Witp Pine Tree. —oa3 
‘PINUS SYLVESTRIS. 
A Tree Native of many Parts of Germany, very. 
| much refembling what is called the manured- 
Pine, or fimply the Pine before defcribed. It 
_ grows to be alarge and tall Tree, the Trunk is 
covered with a rough brown Bark, that of the 
Branches is paler and fmoother.. The Leaves are 
: he narrow, and fhort, they grow two out of a 
Cafe or Hufk, as in the other, and are of a bluith 
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