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I cannot but suggest that our more wealthy citizens 

 of London, every day building and embellishing their 

 dwellings, might be encourag'd to make use of it in 

 their shops, at least for shelves, counters, chests, tables, 

 and wainscot, &c. the fancerings (as they term it) and 

 mouldings ; since beside the everlastingness of the 

 wood, enemy to worms, and those other corruption 

 we have named, it would likewise greatly cure and 

 reform the malignancy and corrosiveness of the air. 



Sabin> or, as we call it, savine, not for dignity to 

 be nam'd with the former ; but for its being absolutely 

 the best Succedaneum to cypress, (which the rigour 

 of our climat is not so benign to) : If our gardners 

 did only increase and cultivate it for the other's defects, 

 and bring up nurseries of them for pyramids, and 

 other tonsile and topiary works, they would oftner 

 use it instead of cypress : As to its other quality, it 

 has, indeed, an ill report, (as most other things have 

 when not rightly apply'd,) whilst there is nothing 

 more efficacious for the destruction of worms in little 

 children, the juice being given in a spoonful of milk, 

 dulcified with a little sugar, which brings them away 

 in heaps ; as it does in horses and other cattel above 

 all other remedies. 



There is another berry-bearing savine in warmer 

 climats, which also resembles the cypress, commonly 

 taken for the Tarrentine cypress, so much celebrated 

 by Cato, which grew to noble standards : But that, 

 and the Melesian, worthy the culture, are rare with 

 us, and indeed is as well supply'd by the more hardy, 

 as well as the Swedish juniper, and other shrubs. 

 The sabine is easily propagated by slips and cuttings 

 sooner than by the seeds, though sometimes found in 

 the small squamous seed-cases. 



