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of it's leaves, and reduced to a fkeleton. 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 twifting 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 pi&urefque appearance. 

 One of the fineft occidental planes I am 

 acquainted with, tho I have heard of larger, 

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

 where it's boughs, feathering to the ground, 

 form 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 ; 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 

 made ; tho in the eaft, it is e deemed among 

 the moft fhady, 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- 

 E 3 fticks. 



