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CHAP. XX. 
Aving now given you an account of all the beftGarden- 
a Ga, Fruits, Vines, and Berries thathitherto have come 
to our knowledge, we thall proceed to ‘the reft of the 
S Gol Flower-bearing Trees, Shrubs, and Greens, omitted 
Pe Seeea§ in the firft Book,as being fitces for aFruit, thanFlower= 
Garden, and that I may perform what was promifed in the Epiftle 
and Proem, (with fubmifsion) infert them in the end of this Book, 
Caftanea Equina. 
He Horfe Chefaut was raifed from the Nuts that came from 
A Turky, which grow well with Us, and in time to a fair large Tree; 
full of Boughs and Branches, fet with gallant great green Leaves, divi- 
ded into fix, feaven, or nine parts, or feveral leaves ftanding together, 
nicked about the edges, much refembling thofe of Palma Chrifli ; at 
the ends of the Branches in May many Flowers come torth, each ha- 
ving four white leaves, with thrids in the middle, which in their na- 
tural Countrey, turn into Che/nuts, but rarely withus, Ic is refpected 
for the beauty of the fair green Leaves and Flowers, and’ with us ini- 
creafed (in default of Nuts) by Suckers, The name was impofed from 
the property of the Nwts, which in Twrky are given to Horfes in their 
Provender, to cure fuch as have coughs, or are broken winded, 
. aoe y key Seer s E e : 
< Tree feldome groweth with us above fix foot high, the 
young Shoots have areddith bark, and the Leaves round, the Flow- 
ers break through the bark in the Spring, before the Leaves, three or 
four ftanding together, on a {mall thort ftalk, in fafhion like Peafe- 
bloffoms, ofa fine purplith bright red colour, which are fucceeded by 
long flat cods, containing fmall flat black feeds , there is another of 
this kind, whofe bark, leaves, and cods, are greener, and the flowers 
white; they are apt to put forth many Suckers, by which, as alfo by 
Layers, they may be increafed, 
Laburnum. 
RE Trefoile is of two forts, a greater, anda leffer, the fuft rifeth 
to a reafonable tall Tree, with a whitifh green bark, full of 
Boughes and Branches, fet with Leaves, three always ftanding toge- 
ther; at the joynts of the branches in May, many yellow Flowers 
come forth, like thofe .of Broom, but leffer, and of a paler yellow 
colour, growing on long branched ftalks, fucceeded by flat thin cods, 
with {mall black feeds: the other leffer kind, chiefly differs in that ic 
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