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deep bluth colour in the one, and white inthe other, confifting of 
four long narrow round- pointed leaves, which with us fall away 
without bringing feeds. 
Laurus Indica. 
T He indian Bay withus thrives flowly, and is feldom found above 
four foot high: it groweth ina thick bufb, the branches cover- 
ed with a yellowith green bark, thick fet with leaves, which are be- 
twixt thofe of the Cherry-Bay and the common kind, fomething re- 
fembling thofe of the Cytron-tree : the flowers grow ina long {pike 
of a greenith white colour, fucceeded by berries like fmall olives, 
This fine Plant is a ftranger in England, and (thoughan Indian, yet) 
if defended from Frofts in Winter, will laft many years, and may be 
increafed by Layers, | eae 
Having now fet down fo maby Bays as we think fit for this place, 
we will conclude with two other Greens, which in their beautitul 
~ ftill-green leaves much refemble them; for fhould we follow the 
method ofan Herbal, and place.every kind ima particular Chapter, 
we fhould not fo weil inform fuch as defire tobe Florifts, either in — 
- the choice of, and manner how, to order, plant and difpofe every 
particular, which isa knowledge chiefly to be inquired and learned 
by all ingenious lovers of thefe delights, 
Mala Arantia. 
: i Orenge-treé confidered as it groweth with us, may more fitly _ 
be placed among the Greens than with the Frasts , for that all 
-thebenefic it affordeth us, confifteth in the beauty of the ever-green 
leaves and {weet-fmelling flowers, the fruit in our cold Countrey ne- 
ver coming tomaturity. Orenge-trees in Spain and other hot Coun- 
tries grow to tall,and_feir trees, but with us feem no other than 
fhrubs, - Thebark of theelder boughs is brown, and the younger 
green, with fome thorns ; theleaves are large, and of a freth thining 
greencolour, twining a little like thofe of zvée, with many {mall 
holes in them, of a ftrong {weet fent, and never falling untill new 
thruft them off; the flowers are ofa whitifh colour, and very fweet, 
fucceeded by fmall round green fruit, which in timegroweth to be 
fomething large, and of ayellowith red colour, as every one know- 
eth, for although the Tree be rare and ftrange to many, the Fruitis 
common and well known unto all, dee | 
Arbutus. 
: T He Stramberry- tree groweth flowly, feldom rifing tomore than ~ 
* two yards high in Ireland its proper Countrey, but with us noc 
fo.tall, thebody hatharough, and the branches a{mooth, bark: 
the leaves are alternately green like the Bays, finely purled about the 
edges, long and round pointed, the flowers grow on the ends of © 
the 
