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virtue of each confifts folely in it's agreement 

 with it's neighbours. 



I have only to add, in commendation of 

 this tree, that it's veins exceed in beauty 

 thofe of moft other trees. Tables made of 

 yew, when the grain is fine, are much fu- 

 perior to mahogany ; and it's root vies in 

 beauty with the ancient citron. 



The ilex, or ever-green oak, prefents a 

 character very different from that of the yew. 

 The yew is a clofe-bodied, compact tree. 

 The ilex is generally thin, and ftraggling; 

 tho we fometimes fee it, in foils, which it 

 likes, form a thicker foliage. Both the yew 

 and the ilex are beautiful ; but in different 

 ways. As an individual, the yew is greatly 

 fuperior. It is an object to admire. The 

 beauty of the ilex arifes chiefly from fituation, 

 and contraft. 



Under this head may be clafled another 

 oak, nearly an ever-green, a late production of 

 fingular origin, called the Luccomb-oak, from 

 the perfon, who raifed it. It was produced 

 from an acorn of the common Turkey-oak ; 

 from which all the Luccomb oaks have been 

 H 3 grafted-, 



