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March, by scores in a heap ; and indeed so they will 

 come up in clusters, but nothing so well, nor fit for 

 transplantation, as where they are interr'd with a 

 competent scattering, so as you would furrow pease : 

 Both this way, and by setting them apart (which I 

 most commend) I have rais'd multitudes, and that in 

 the berries, kept in sand till the Spring, without any 

 farther preparation ; only for the first two years, they 

 would be defended from the piercing winds, which 

 frequently destroy them ; and yet the scorching of 

 their tender leaves ought not to make you despair, 

 for many of them will recover beyond expectation ; 

 nay, tho' quite cut down, they repullulate and produce 

 young suckers : Such as are rais'd of berries, may at 

 3 years growth be transplanted ; which let alone too 

 long, are difficult to take. 



21. This aromatic tree greatly loves the mothers 

 shade, (under which nothing else will prosper) yet 

 thrives best in our hottest gravel, having once pass'd 

 those first difficulties : Age, and culture about the 

 roots, wonderfully augment its growth ; so as I have 

 seen trees near thirty foot high of them, and almost 

 two foot diameter. They make walking-staves, strait, 

 strong and light, for old gentlemen ; and are fit also 

 both for arbour and palisade-work, so the gardener 

 understand when to prune and keep it from growing 

 too woody. And here I cannot but take notice of 

 those beautiful case-standards, which of late you have 

 had out of Flanders, Gfc. with stems so even and 

 upright ; heads so round, full, and flourishing, as seem 

 to exceed all the topiary ornaments of the garden ; 

 that one tree of them has been sold for more than 

 twenty pounds ; tho' now the mystery reveal'd, the 

 price be much abated : And doubtless as good might 



