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building, palisade-work, &c. The ashes drunk, stop 

 the bloody-flux. 



3. I/ex, major glandifera^ or great scarlet-oak of 

 several species, and various in the shape of their leaf, 

 pointed rounder, longer, 6fc. (a devoted tree of old, 

 and therefore incaedua] thrives manifestly with us ; 

 witness His Majesty's privy-garden at White-hall, 

 where once flourish'd a goodly tree, of more than 

 fourscore years growth, and there was lately a sickly 

 imp of it remaining : And now very many rais'd by 

 me, have thriv'd wonderfully, braving the most severe 

 Winters, planted either in standards or hedges, which 

 they most beautifully become. The only difficulty 

 is in their being dextrously removed out of the nur- 

 sery, with the mould adhering to the roots ; other- 

 wise apt to miscarry ; and therefore best trusting to 

 the acorn for a goodly standard, and that may be 

 removed without prejudice, tryals should be made by 

 graffing the ilex in the oak-stock, taken out of our 

 woods, or better, grown from the acorn to the bigness 

 of one's little finger. 



4. By what I have touch'd in the chapter of the 

 elms, concerning the peregrination of that tree into 

 Spain, (where even in Pliny's time there were none, 

 and where now they are in great abundance) why 

 should we not more generally endeavour to propagate 

 the ilex amongst us ; I mean, that which the Spaniards 

 call the enzina, and of which they have such woods, 

 and profitable plantations ? They are an hardy sort of 

 tree, and familiarly rais'd from the acorn, if we could 

 have them sound, and well put up in earth or sand, 

 as I have found by experience. 



5. The wood of these ilex's is serviceable for many 

 uses, as stocks of tools, mallet-heads, mall-balls, chairs, 



