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ing the oak, to our great disadvantage ; whilst we 

 neglect new seminations. Herodotus speaking of the 

 palms, (plentifully growing about Delos) says the 

 whole species was utterly lost : More I might add on 

 this subject ; but having perhaps been too long on 

 these remarks, and long enough on cold M. Libanus, 

 I pass to, 



1. Juniper ; let it not seem unduly plac'd, if after 

 such gyants, we bring that humble shrub (such as 

 abound with us being so reckon'd) to claim affinity to 

 the tallest cedar ; since were not ours continually cropp'd, 

 but maintain 'd in single stems, we might perhaps see 

 some of them rise {o competent trees ; fit for many 

 curious works, tables, cabinets, coffers, inlaying, floors, 

 carvings, G?c. we have of some of these trees so large, 

 as to have made beams and rafters for a certain temple 

 in Spain, dedicated to Diana ; nor need we question 

 their being fit for other buildings ; celebrated for its 

 emulating the cedar, tho' not in stature, yet in its 

 lastingness : And such, I think, the learned Dr. Sloane 

 mentions growing in Jamaica, little inferior to the 

 Vermudas. 



2. Of juniper, we have three or four sorts, male, 

 female, dwarf ; whereof one is much taller, and more 

 fit for improvement. The wood is yellow, and being- 

 cut in March, sweet as cedar, whereof it is account- 

 ed a spurious kind ; all of them difficult to remove 

 with success ; nor prosper, they being shaded at all, or 

 over-drip'd : The Swedish juniper (now so frequent in 

 our new modish gardens, and shorn into pyramids) is 

 but a taller and somewhat brighter sort of the vulgar. 



3. I have rais'd them abundantly of their seeds 

 (neither watering, nor dunging the soil) which in two 

 months will peep, and being govern 'd like the cypress, 



