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semper-vivents, especially such as are fittest for the 

 shrubby parts, and furniture of our groves, mere 

 gardens of pleasure, which none but the ever-green 

 become. To these we might add (not for their ver- 

 dure only) other more rare exotics, styrax arbor, and 

 terebynth, noting by the way, that we have no true 

 turpentine to be bought in our shops, but what is 

 from the larch ; whilst apothecaries substitute that 

 which extills from the fir-tree, instead of it : All of 

 them minding me again of the great opportunities 

 and encouragement we have of every day improving 

 our stores with so many useful trees from the Ameri- 

 can plantations ; for which I have the suffrage of 

 the often-cited Mr. Ray, who is certainly a very able 

 judge : Might we not therefore attempt the more 

 frequent locust, sassafras, Gfc. and that sort of elm, or 

 sugar-tree, whose juice yields that sweet halymus lati- 

 folius, and several others for encouragement ? But 



1 4. 1 produce not these particulars, and other amana 

 vireta already mentioned, as signifying any thing to 

 timber, the main design of this treatise, (tho' I read 

 of some myrtils so tall, as to make spear-shafts) but to 

 exemplifie in what may be farther added to ornament 

 and pleasure, by a cheap and most agreeable industry. 



CHAPTER V. 



Of the Gork> Ilex, Alaternus, Gelastrus, 



Ligustrum, Philyrea, Myrtil, Lentiscus, Qlhe, Granade, 



Syring, Jasmine and other Exoticks. 



We do not exclude this useful tree from those of 

 the glandiferous and forest ; but being inclin'd to 



