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pose they had a sort of better stature than the shrub 

 growing among the curious with us, and which is 

 celebrated for its chast effects, and for which the 

 Ancients employ'd it in the rites of Ceres : I rather 

 think it more convenient for the sculptor (which he 

 likewise mentions) provided we may (with safety) 

 restore the text, as Perrault has attempted, by substi- 

 tuting lavitatem) for the author's reglditatem^ stubborn 

 materials being not so fit for that curious art. 



29. What most of the former enumerated kinds 

 differ from the sallows, is indeed not much consider- 

 able, they being generally useful for the same pur- 

 poses; as boxes, such as apothecaries and goldsmiths use; 

 for cart-saddle-trees, yea gun-stocks, and half-pikes, 

 harrows, shooe-makers lasts, heels, clogs for pattens, 

 forks, rakes, especially the tooths, which should be 

 wedged with oak ; but let them not be cut for this 

 when the sap is stirring, because they will shrink ; 

 pearches, rafters for hovels, portable and light laders, 

 hop-poles, ricing of kidney-beans, and for supporters 

 to vines, when our English vineyards come more in 

 request : Also for hurdles, sieves, lattices ; for the 

 turner, kyele-pins, great town-tops ; for platters, little 

 casks and vessels ; especially to preserve verjuices in, 

 the best of any : Pales are also made of cleft willow, 

 dorsers, fruitbaskets, canns, hives for bees, trenchers, 

 trays, and for polishing and whetting table-knives, the 

 butler will find it above any wood or whet-stone ; also 

 for coals, bavin, and excellent firing, not forgetting 

 the fresh boughs, which of all the trees in nature, yield 

 the most chast and coolest shade in the hottest season 

 of the day ; and this umbrage so wholsome, that 

 physicians prescribe it to feaverish persons, permitting 

 them to be plac'd even about their beds, as a safe and 



