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build his Davy : and this we rather think, to be the 

 tree mentioned in the Canticles, which stricter botanol- 

 ogy will hardly allow to be camphire. 



And if delight or ornamental view invite a comely 

 disposure by circular amputations, as is elegantly per- 

 formed in hawthorns, then will they answer the figures 

 made by the conversion of a rhombus, which maketh 

 two concentrical circles ; the greater circumference 

 being made by the lesser angles, the lesser by the 

 greater. 



The cylindrical figure of trees is virtually contained 

 and latent in this order ; a cylinder or long round 

 being made by the conversion or turning of a parallel- 

 ogram, and most handsomely by a long square, which 

 makes an equal, strong, and lasting figure in trees, 

 agreeable unto the body and motive part of animals, 

 the greatest number of plants, and almost all roots, 

 though their stalk be angular, and of many corners, 

 which seem not to follow the figure of their seeds ; 

 since many angular seeds send forth round stalks, and 

 spherical seeds arise from angular spindles, and many 

 rather conform unto their roots, as the round stalks ot 

 bulbous roots and in tuberous roots stems of like figure. 

 But why, since the largest number of plants maintain a 

 circular figure, there are so few with teretous or long 



