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Tho we cannot accord with the learned 

 naturalift in the whole of this rapturous en- 

 comium on the hedge at Say'^-couit; yet 

 in part we agree with him; and admire, 

 as much as he does, the holly, glittering 

 with it's armed and varnifoed leaves; and 

 blujhing with it's natural coral. But we could 

 wifh to recommend it, not in a hedge, but 

 in a fbreft; where mixed with oak, or afh, 

 or other trees of the wood, it contributes 

 to form the moft beautiful fcenes; blending 

 itfelf with the trunks, and fkeletons of the 

 winter ; or with the varied greens of fummer. 

 But in it's combined ftate we fhall have 

 occafion hereafter to mention it. At prefent 

 we mall only obferve that, as far as an ins- 

 dividual bufn can be beautiful, the holly is 

 extremely fo. It has belides to recommend 

 it, that it is among the hardieft and ftouteft 

 plants of Engliih growth. It thrives in almoft 

 all foils, and fituations. At Dungenefs in 

 Kent, I have heard, it flourifhes even among 

 the pebbles of the beach. 



The haw-thorn mould not entirely be pafled 

 over amidft the minuter plants of the foreft, 



H 4 tho 



