I j% The Natural Hi/lory 



nature, in a top branch of Holly hanging up in the Gate-houfe of 

 the Pbyflck-garden, whence 'tis plain, that this happens alfo to 

 the hardeft woods ; and in both, by the afrent of too much 

 nourifhment, though in branches of Trees, efpecially fuch as are 

 not only flat but helically curled, I guefs there concurs fome blaft, 

 orfome fuch like matter, that contracts the fibers and fo turns 

 them round, befide the cxcefs in the afcent of their nouriQi- 

 ment. 



83. As for the ftriped leaves of 7rar,as well as thofe of Shrubs, 

 and herbaceous Plants, I fuppofe they may be met with almoft in 

 every kind. The greater Maple, mifcalled the Sycomore, was found 

 ftriped white not many years (ince in Magdalen College Grove, 

 and tranflated thence into the Pbyflck-garden, where it flourifhes 

 ftill and retains its slripings ; and I hear of a ftriped Elm fom- 

 where in Dorfet-Jbire. Dr. Childrey k , and out of him the inge- 

 nious Mr. Evelyn l , inform us of an Oak in Lanhadron Park in the 

 County of Cornwall (to omit the painted Oak. in the Hundred of 

 Eaft') which conftantly bears leaves fpeckled with white. And 

 there was another of thefe found thisinftant year, 1676. by my 

 worthy Friend Dr. ThomasTayler, in a place called Frid-wood, in 

 the Parifh of Borden near Sittingbourn in Kent. But of thefe more 

 hereafter, when I come into thofe Counties. 



84. Of Vnufual trees now cultivated in Oxford-flnre, there 

 are fome remarkable ; fuch is the Abele-tree, advantagioufly pro- 

 pagated by Sir George Croke of Waterftock-> which he does, by 

 cutting flakes out of the more fubftantial part of the wood, which 

 put into moift ground grow more freely than willows, coming in 

 three or four years time to an incredible height. And fuch are 

 the Fir-tree, and the leffer mountain Pine, whereof there are fe- 

 veral Nurferies planted in the Quincunx order, at Cornbury, in the 

 Park, of the Right Honorable the Earl of Clarendon, which they 

 propagate by flips twifted, as well as by Kernels, to that advantage 

 that there is great hopes of beautiful and Irately Groves of them ; 

 fuch as I met with at the Right Worfhipful Sir Feter Wentworths at 

 Lillingston Lovel, where there are three Walks of Firs, moft of 

 them 20 yards high. 



85. Which Parifh, if the Reader look for in the Map of Ox- 

 fordshire hemuft notexpeft to find,though it belong to the County, 



* Britannia Bacmica in ComnaalL ' Difcourfeof Foreft Trees, op- 3. 



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