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apt for all the employments of that beautiful tree : 

 To make it grow tall, prune, and cleanse it to the 

 very stem ; the male best. The discreet loosening 

 of the earth about the roots also, makes it strangely 

 to prevent your expectations, by suddenly spreading 

 into a bush fit for a thousand pretty employments ; 

 for coming to be much unlike that which grows wild, 

 and is subject to the treading and cropping of cattle, 

 Gfc. it may be form'd into most beautiful and useful 

 hedges : My late brother having formerly cut out of 

 one only tree, an arbour capable for three to sit in, 

 it was at my last measuring seven foot square, and 

 eleven in height ; and would certainly have been of 

 a much greater altitude, and farther spreading, had it 

 not continually been kept shorn : But what is most 

 considerable, is, the little time since it was planted, 

 being then hardly ten years, and then it was brought 

 out of the common a slender bush, of about two foot 

 high : But I have experimented a proportionable 

 improvement in my own garden, where I do mingle 

 them with cypress, and they would perfectly become 

 their stations, where they might enjoy the sun, and 

 may very properly be set where cypress does not so 

 well thrive ; namely, in such gardens and courts as 

 are open to the eddy-winds, which indeed a little 

 discolours our junipers when they blow easterly to- 

 wards the Spring, but they constantly recover again ; 

 and besides, the shrub is tonsile, and may be shorn 

 into any form. I wonder Virgil should condemn its 



shadow. Juniperi gravis umbra I suspect him 



mis-reported. 



In the mean time, botanists are not fully agreed to 

 what species many noble and stately trees, passing 

 under the names of cedar, are to be reckon'd ; and 



