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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM . 



PART ITI. 



that its berries will cure all diseases ; and Mathioliis, 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 

 Northumberlande, It groweth in Germany in greate plentye, but in no 

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

 feldefares fede only of junipers berries, the people eate the feldefares 

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

 juniper." {Names of Herbes, Sec, 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, S^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 



