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of it's leaves, and reduced to a ikeleton. It 

 has not the natural appearance, which the 

 fpray of the oak, and that of many other trees 

 difcovers in winter : tho I have heard, that 

 in America, where it grows naturally, it grows 

 more freely ; and does not exhibit that twifling in 

 it's branches. It's foliage, from the largenefs of 

 the leaf, and the mode of it's growth, does 

 not make the moft piclurefque appearance. 

 One of the fineft occidental planes I am 

 acquainted with, tho I have heard of larger, 

 flands in the vicarage-garden at Vicar's-hill ; 

 where it's boughs, feathering to the ground, 

 from a canopy of above fifty feet in diameter. 



The oriental plane is a tree nearly of the 

 fame kind, only it's leaf is more palmated j nor 

 has it fo great a difpofition to overfhadow the 

 ground, as the occidental plane. At leaft I 

 never faw any in our climate form fo noble a 

 (hade $ tho in the eaft, it is efteemed among 

 the moft ihady, and moft magnificent of trees. 

 Lady Craven fpeaks of fome me faw in the 

 Turkifh dominions of a fize fo gigantic, that 

 the largeft trees we have in England placed 

 near them, would appear only like broom- 



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