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shall have occasion to discourse of in the following 

 work ; tho' we also take in some less vulgarly known 

 and familiar, of late indenizon'd among us, and some 

 of them very useful. 



By trees then is meant, a lignous woody-plant, 

 whose property is for the most part, to grow up and 

 erect itself with a single stem or trunk, of a thick and 

 more compacted substance and bulk, branching forth 

 large and spreading boughs ; the whole body and 

 external part, cover'd and invested with a thick rind 

 or cortex, more hard and durable than that of other 

 parts ; which, with expanding roots, penetrate and 

 fixes them in the earth for stability, (and according 

 to their nature) receive and convey nourishment to 

 the whole : And these terrce-filh, are what we call 

 timber-trees, the chief subject of our following 

 Discourse. 



Trees are likewise distinguish^ into other subor- 

 dinate species ; fruticis, frutages and shrubs ; which 

 are also lignous trees, tho' of a lower and humbler 

 growth, less spreading, and rising up in several stems, 

 emerging from the same root, yielding plenty of 

 suckers ; which being separated from it, and often 

 carrying with them some small fiber, are easily propa- 

 gated and planted out for a numerous store : And 

 this, (being clad with a more tender bark or fiber) 

 seems to differ thefrutex from other arborious kinds; 

 since as to the shaft and stems of such as we account 

 dwarf and pumilo with us, they rise often to tall and 

 stately trees, in the more genial and benign climes. 



Suffrutrices are shrubs lower than the former, 

 lignescent and more approaching to the stalky herbs, 

 lavender, rue, Gfc. but not apt to decay so soon, after 

 they have seeded ; whilst both these kinds seem also 



