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well, as by the sea-coasts, the air of which is more 

 propitious to them (as well as to oranges and lem- 

 mons, Gfc.) than the inland air. I know of one near 

 eighty years old, which has been continually expos'd ; 

 unless it be, that in some exceeding sharp seasons, 

 a little dry straw has been thrown upon it ; and 

 where they are smitten, being cut down near the 

 ground, they put forth and recover again ; which 

 many times they do not in pots and cases, where the 

 roots are very obnoxious to perish with mouldiness. 

 The shelter of a few mats, and straw, secur'd very 

 great trees (both leaf and colour in perfection) this 

 last Winter also, which were planted abroad ; whilst 

 those that were carried into the conserve, were most 

 of them lost. Myrtils (which are of six or eight 

 sorts) may be rais'd of seeds ; as also may several 

 varieties of oranges and lemmons, and made (after 

 some years attendance) to produce fruit in the cold 

 Rhetia and Helvetick valleys ; but with great caution, 

 and after all, seldom prove worth the pains, being so 

 abundantly multiplied of suckers, slips and layers : 

 The double-flower (which is the most beautiful) was 

 first discovered by the incomparable Fabr. Piereshy, 

 which a mule had cropt from a wild shrub. Note, 

 that you cannot give those plants too much compost 

 or refreshing, nor clip them too often, even to the 

 stem ; which will grow tall, and prosper into any 

 shape ; so as arbours have been made of single trees 

 of the hardy kind, protected in the Winter with 

 sheads of straw and reeds. Both leaves and berries 

 refrigerate, and are very astringent and drying, and 

 therefore seldom us'd within, except in fluxes : 

 With wine and honey it heals the noisome polypus, 

 and the powder corrects the rankness of the arm-pits, 



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