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colores, branched sun flower, double poppies, lu- 

 pines of several pretty sorts. Spontaneous and 

 the sensible plant is said to be near the mountains 

 which I have not yet seen ; safflower, (and I be- 

 lieve the saffron of England would thrive here if 

 planted) the yellow j essamin is wild in our woods 

 of a pleasant smell. Evergreens are here plenti- 

 fully found of a very quick growth and pleasant 

 shade ; cypress or vliite cedar, the pitch pine, the 

 yellow pine, the white pine with long leaves, and 

 the smaller almond pine, which last bears kernels 

 in the apple, tasting much like an almond, and in 

 some years there falls such plenty as to make the 

 hogs fat. Horn beam, cedar, two sorts, holly, 

 two sorts, bay tree, two sorts, one the dwarf bay, 

 about twelve feet high, the other the bigness of a 

 middling pine tree, about two feet and half diame- 

 ter; laurel trees, in height, equalizing the lofty 

 oaks, the berries and leaves of this tree dies a yel- 

 low ; the bay berries yield a wax, which besides 

 its use in chirurgery, makes candles, that in burn- 

 ing, give a fragrant smell. The cedar berries are 

 infused and made beer of by the Bermudians, they 

 are carminative, and much of the quality of juni- 

 per berries ; yew or box I have never seen or heard 

 of in this country. There are two sorts of myrtles, 

 different in leaf and berry. The berry yields wax 

 that makes candles, the most lasting and of the 

 sweetest smell imaginable. Some mix half tallow 

 with this wax, others use it without mixture ; and 

 these are fit for a lady's chamber, and incompara- 



