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grafted -, as I underftand, the feed 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 fhrub. It is a plant however 

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

 cries out with rapture ; "Is there under 

 heaven a more glorious, and refrefhing 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 

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

 time of the year, glittering with it's armed 

 and varnifhed leaves -, the taller flandards at 

 orderly diftances, blufhing with their natural 

 coral morn and fafhioned into columns, and 

 pilafters, architectionally fhaped, at due dif- 

 tance? " 



Tho 



