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winter, as I have seen by experience, without 

 that trouble and care of setting it in cases in our 

 conservatories of hiemation. Such as nave be- 

 held it in flower (which is not indeed till it be 

 of some age) must needs admire the beauty of it ; 

 and it being easily multiplied, why should it not 

 make one of the best and most ornamental 

 fences in the world for our gardens, with its 

 natural palisadoes, as well as the more tender 

 and impatient of moisture, the aloe, does for 

 their vineyards in lyanguedoc ? But we believe 

 nothing improvable, save what our grand- 

 fathers taught us. Finally, let trial likewise be 

 made of that thorn mentioned by Captain L,ig- 

 gon in his " History of Barbadoes," whether it 

 would not be made to grow amongst us, and 

 prove as convenient for fences as there, the 

 seeds or sets being transported to us with due 

 care. Having thus accomplished what, by your 

 commands, I had to offer concerning the propa- 

 gation of the more solid material and useful 

 trees, as well the dry as the aquatical, and, to the 

 best of my talent, fenced our plantation in, I 

 should here conclude, and set a bound likewise 

 to my discourse, by making an apology for the 

 many errors and impertinencies of it, did not 

 the zeal and ambition of this illustrious society 

 to promote and improve all attempts which 

 may concern public utility or ornament, per- 



