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do not like/' says this great man, " images 

 cut out of juniper or other garden stuff; they 

 are for children ; and as for the making knots 

 or figures, with divers coloured earths, they 

 be but toys." 



G. Mason considers the efficacy of Veru- 

 lam's ideas to have been the introduction of 

 classical landscapes, which banished the tree 

 whose birth and parentage we are about to 

 relate. Its education and death having 

 already been noticed, we shall extract what 

 Gerard has registered as to its name and 

 early residence in these kingdoms. He says, 

 " The hornbeame-tree is called in Greeke 

 Zvyia, which is as if you should say coniugalis, 

 or belonging to the yoke, because it serueth 

 well to make <CpyU of; in Latin Jaga, yokes, 

 wherewith oxen are yoked together, which 

 are also, euen at this time, made thereof in 

 our owne countrie; and, therefore, may be 

 Englished yoke elme. It is called of some 

 Carpinus, and Zugia; it is also called Betulus, 

 as if it were a kind of birch ; but myselfe 

 better like that it should be one of the 

 elmes. The hornbeame-tree groweth plen- 

 tifully in Northamptonshire ; also in Kent, 

 by Gravesend, where it is commonly taken 

 for a kind of elme. In English, it is called 

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