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bridles, and what other things you are minded to 

 take with you for pleasure or ornament. 



And now I shall proceed to the rest of the vege- 

 tables that are common in Carolina, in reference 

 to the place where I left off, which is the natural 

 history of that country. 



OF THE VEGETABLES OF CAROLINA. 



The spontaneous shrubs of this country are the 

 lark heel tree ; three sorts of honeysuckle tree, 

 the first of which grows in branches as our pie- 

 mento tree does, that is, always in low, moist 

 ground; the other grows in clear, dry land, the 

 flower more cut and lacerated ; the third, which 

 is the most beautiful, and, I think, the most char- 

 ming flower of its color I ever saw, grows betwixt 

 two and three feet high, and for the most part, by 

 the side of a swampy wood, or on the banks of 

 our rivers, but never near the salt water. All 

 the sorts are white ; the last grows in a great 

 bunch of these small honeysuckles set upon one 

 chief stem, and is commonly the bigness of a large 

 turnep. Nothing can appear more beautiful than 

 these bushes, when in their splendour, which is 

 in April and May. The next is the honeysuckle 

 of the forest ; it grows about a foot high, bearing 

 its flowers on small pedestals, several of them 

 standing on the main stock, which is the thick- 

 ness of a wheat straw. We have also the wood 

 bind, much the same as in England ; princes fea- 

 ther, very largo and beautiful in the garden ; tres 



