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strewing a few oats at the bottom of the fosses or 

 pits in which you transplant the naked roots, for a 

 great promotement of their taking, and that it will 

 cause them to shoot more in one year than in three : 

 But to this I have already spoken. Other kinds not 

 so rigid, nor the bark, leaf, cone and nuts so large, 

 are those call'd the mountain-pine, a very large stately 

 tree : There is likewise the wild, or bastard-pine, and 

 ted^ clad with thin long leaves, and bearing a turbin- 

 ated cone : Abundance of excellent rosin comes from 

 this tree. There is also the pinaster^ another of the 

 wild-kind ; but none of them exceeding the Spanish, 

 call'd by us, the Scotch pine, for its tall and erect 

 growth, proper for large and ample walks and avenues: 

 Several of the other wild sorts, inclining to grow 

 crooked. But for a more accurate description of 

 these coniferous trees, and their perfect distinctions, 

 consult our Mr. Ray's most elaborate and useful work, 

 where all that can be expected or desir'd, concerning 

 this profitable, as well as beautiful tree, is amply set 

 down, Hist. Plant, lib. 25. cap. I. 



5. I am assur'd (by a person most worthy of credit) 

 that in the territory of Alzey (a country in Germany, 

 where they were miserably distressed for wood, which 

 they had so destroy'd as that they were reduc'd to 

 make use of straw for their best fuel) a very large 

 tract being newly plowed, (but the wars surprizing 

 them, not suffer'd to sow,) there sprung up the next 

 year a whole forest of pine-trees, of which sort of 

 wood there was none at all, within less than fourscore 

 miles ; so as 'tis verily conjectur'd by some, they 

 might be wafted thither from the country of Westra- 

 sia, which is the nearest part to that where they 

 grow : If this be true, we are no more to wonder, 



