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excellent pales, posts, rails, pedarnents and props for 

 vines, Gfc. to which add the palats on which our 

 painters separate and blend their colours, and were 

 (till the use of canvas and bed-tike came) the tables 

 on which the great Raphael, and most famous artists 

 of the last age, eterniz'd their skill. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Of the Cedar , Juniper^ Cypress ', Savine, Thuya &c. 



i . But now after all the beautiful and stately trees, 

 clad in perpetual verdure, 



Quid tibi odorato referam sudantia ligno ? 



Should I forget the cedar ? which grows in all extreams; 

 in the moist Barbadoes, the hot Bermudas, (I speak 

 of those trees so denominated) the cold New England, 

 even where the snows lie, as I am told, almost half 

 the Year ; for so it does on the mountains of Libanus, 

 from whence I have received cones and seeds of those 

 few remaining trees : why then should they not thrive 

 in old England, I know not, save for want of industry 

 and trial. 



They grow in the bogs of America, and in the 

 mountains of Asia ; so as there is, it seems, no place 

 or clime which affrights it ; and I have frequently 

 rais'd them from their seeds and berries, of which we 

 have the very best in the world from the Summer- 

 Islands, though now almost exhausted by the unaccount- 

 able negligence of the planters ; as are likewise those 



