of Pococlce's Travels. 5 



nico" might induce a suspicion of its having been obtained from 

 thence; but no Euiopanuis were settled in that iskmd previous 

 to the vear l6"35, nor do we know that the tree, being a native 

 of North America, would grow in so hot a climate. 



How the Liquidainbar Stijracifiua travelled to Cyprus, must 

 therefore remain unexplained ; for we have not even a legend to 

 help us, like that of the staff of Joseph of Arimathea at Glas- 

 tonbury. That so great a novelty should have acquired consi- 

 derable reputation in the garden of a Cyprian convent, so as to 

 have even supernatural properties attributed to it, may not so 

 much excite our wonder. Its celebrity indeed appears to have 

 declined between the periods of Dr. Pococke's visit and Dr. Sib- 

 thorp's, but the tree itself still flourished. Dr. Sibthorp, like his 

 predecessor, found it forming seed ; yet it does not appear to have 

 scattered its progeny over the neighbourhood, as, in so fine a cli- 

 mate, it might have been expected to have done, though I have 

 never heard of its bringing any seed to perfection in England, 

 where it rarely even blossoms. 



I remain, &c. 



Norwich, Feb. 20, 1815. J- E. SmiTII. 



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