62 A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. 



been brought from Zant 200 years before the deftruftion oiTroy : 



4. The Sjttim mention'din holy Writ isbeliev'd to have been 

 a kind oi Cedar ^ of which the moft precious Vtenftls were form'd ; 

 fo that when they faid a thing was ctdro digfta, the meaning was, 

 vporthy of eternity. 



CHAP. XXIV. 



Of the Cork, Alaternus, Phillyrea, Granad, 

 Myrtil, Jafmine, &-€. 



Cork '• nr*'^^ Cork^[_SHber~\ grows in the coldelf parts of i5//c4/y(,and in 



2^ X. the North ofNerv England : Why fhould we delpair ? That 



the great Ilex thrives well enough, his Afajejiies Privy-gardens at 

 IVhite-hall would once have ftiew'd, where ftood a goodly Tree, 

 of more then fourfcore years old 5 though there be now but an 

 Jwpe of it remaining. I wonder Carolm Stephanus^ and Benedi&ns 

 CurfiHs ftiould write fo confidently there were no Corkctrees in 

 Italy, where I my felf have travell'd through vaft Woods of them 

 about Pifa , and Aquin , and in divers other places between 

 Rome and the Kingdom of Naples : That there were none in 

 France indeed Fliny is exprefs^ Nat. Hilf. 1. 16. c. 8. 



3. I (hall not need rehearfe the Vfes of the Bark^ of this Tree, it 

 is fo well known , the Timber is elfe inconfiderable. 

 Alaumui. I. The Alaternus^ which we have lately received from the hot- 

 teft parts of Languedoc (and that is equal with the heat of almofl: 

 any Country in Europe) thrives with us in England, as if it were an 

 Indigene and Natural. 



7. I have had the honour to be the firft who brought it into 

 Vje and reputation in this K/»§«/tf«» for the moft beautiful, and 

 ufcful of He^afge/, and Verdure in the world (^the Jbiftnef o{ the 

 growth confider'd) and propagated it from Cornwall even to Cum- 

 berland : The feed grows ripe with us in Auguji ^ and the hony- 

 breathing Blojfomes afford an early and marvellous relief to 

 the Bees. 

 Fhtlljrea. I. All the Phil/yrea's are yet more hardy '^ which makes me 



wonder to find the AnguHifolia planted in Cafes, and fo charily 

 fct into thcjioves, amongft the Oranges and Lemmons ^ when by 

 long experience I have found it equal our Hol/y in fufFering the ex- 

 treameft rigours of oui cruelleft Fronts , and Winds , which is 

 doubtlcls (of all our Englip Trees) the moft infenfible and ftout. 



2. They are ( both Alaternus and this ) raifed of the feeds 

 (though thole of the Phillyrea will be long under ground) and be- 

 ing tranfplanted for Ejpalier hedges, or standards, are to be go- 

 vernM by the Jhears, as oft as there is occafion : The Alaternus 

 will be up in one Moneth after it is fown : Plant it out at two years 

 growth, and clip it after rain in the jpring, before it grows fticky, 



and 



