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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 





that its berries will cure all diseases ; and Mathiolus, that its virtues are too nu- 

 merous to mention. Turner says that, in England, the juniper " groweth most 

 plenteouslie in Kent : it groweth, also, in the bisshopryche of Durram, and in 

 Nortiiumberlande. It groweth in Germany in greate plentye, but in no 

 place in greater than a lyttle from Bon; where, at the time of year the 

 feldefares (cdc only of jiuiipcrs berries, the people eatc the feldefares 

 undrawen, with guttes and all, because they are full of the berries of 

 juniper." {Namcsof Jlcrhcf;, &c., fol. 25.) The juniper is treated of at length 

 in both Gerard and Parkinson, who enumerate a great many virtues belonging 

 to it. In the Highlands, it is the badge of the clan Murray. 



Poetical Allusions, ^-c. The ancients consecrated this shrub to the Furies, 

 and threw its berries on the funeral pile, to protect the departing spirit from 

 evil influences. They also offered it in sacrifice to the Infernal Gods, to 



