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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



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that its berrief will cure all diseases ; and Mathiolus, that its virtues are too nu- 

 meroilf to mention. Turner says that, in England, thejuniper " groweth most 

 plenteouslie in Kent : it groweth, also, in the bisshopryche of Durram, and in 

 Northumberlande. It groweth in Germany in grcate plentye, but in no 

 place in greater than a lyttle from Bon; where, at the time of year the 

 f'eld* fan fede only of junipers berries, the people cate the feldefares 

 nndrawen, with guttes arid all, because they are full of the berries of 

 juniper." ( Name* of Herbei t &c, fol. 25.) Thejuniper is treated of at length 

 in both Gerard and Parkinson, who enumerate a great many virtues belonging 

 to it. Jn the Highland*, it is the badge of the clan Murray. 



Poetical AlltuionSf Sfc. The ancients consecrated this shrub to the Furies, 

 i d threw iti berrief on the funeral pile, to protect the departing spirit from 

 evil influence*. They also offered it in sacrifice to the Infernal Gods, to 



