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grafted; as I underftand, the jeed of . acci- 

 dental varieties never produce the fame plant. 

 I have heard much of the beauty of this 

 tree; and of the acquifition it will be to 

 winter-fcenery by the introduction of a new, 

 and beautiful ever-green. It may be fo. It's 

 growth, I am told, is rapid. But from the 

 few plants I have feen of this flock, and 

 thofe but young, no judgment can well be 

 formed, 



The holly can hardly be called a tree, tho 

 it is a large Ihrub. It is a plant however 

 of fmgular beauty. Mr. Evelin, in his Sylva, 

 cries out with rapture j " Is there under 

 heaven a more glorious, and refreshing ob- 

 ject of the kind, than an impenetrable hedge, 

 of about four hundred feet in length, nine 

 feet high, and five in diameter, which I can 

 fhew in my gardens at Say's-court, at any 

 time of the year, glittering with it's armed 

 and varnifhed leaves 3 the taller ftandards at 

 orderly diflances, bluihing with their natural 

 coral morn and fafhioned into columns, and 

 pilafters, architectionally fhaped, at due dif- 

 tance ?" 



Tho 



