foil. But by fo doing the Timber is 

 not half fo durable as that which is 

 fallen in the Winter : fo that thofe 

 Ships which have been built of this 

 Spring - cut Timber, have decay'd 

 more in feven or eight Years, than 

 others, which were built with Tim- 

 ber cut in Winter, have done in 

 twenty. And this our Neighbours 

 the French have experienced ; and 

 therefore have wifely order'd, that 

 the Bark mould be taken off the 

 Trees, ftanding, at the proper Time; 

 but the Trees are left till the next, 

 and fometimes until the fecond Win- 

 ter, before they are cut down : and 

 the Timber of thefe is found to be 

 more durable, and better for Ufe, 

 than that of any Trees which have 

 not been peePd. Therefore I wilh 

 we were wife enough to copy after 

 them in thofe Things which are for 

 public Good, rather than to imitate 

 them in their Follies, which has 

 been too much the Fafhion of late 

 Years. 



QUICK : By the Word Quick 

 are generally underftood all live 

 Hedges, of whatever Sort of Plants 

 ^ they are compos'd, to diltinguifh 

 them from dead Hedges : but, in 

 the mod Uriel: Senfe of this Word, 

 it is applied to the Hawthorn, or 

 Mcfpilus fylvejirh ; under which 

 Name the young Plants, or Sets, are 

 commonly foid by theNurfery-Gar- 

 deners, who raife them for Sale : for 

 a farther Account of planting thefe 

 for Hedges, fee Hedges; as alio Mef 

 pilus, for the raifing of the Plants. 



QUICK-BEAM. Vide Sorbus 

 Sylvellris. 



QUINCE-TREE, Vide Cydonia 



QUINCUNX ORDER is a 

 Plantation of Trees, difpofed ori- 

 ginally in a Square, confifting of 

 live Trees, one at each Corner, and 

 a fifth in the Middle ; which Difpo- 

 fition, repeated again and again, 



forms a regular Grove, Wood, or 

 Wildernefs ; and when view'd by an 

 Angle of the Square or Parallelo- 

 gram, prefents equal or parallel 



Alleys. 



QUINQUEFOLIUM, Cinque- 

 foil. Vide Potentilla. 



R A 



RADISH. Vide Raphanus. - 

 RADISH (HORSE). Vide 

 Cochlearia 



RAMPIONS. Vide Campanula 

 radice efculenta. 

 RANDIA. 



The CharaBtrs are ; 

 // hath a Flower confifing of one 

 Leaf, whofe lower Part is tubulous ; 

 hut the upperPartis expanded, and, for 

 the mo/I, part divided into fiveSegments : 

 the Flower is fucceeded by an oval 

 Fruit, having but one Cell, which is 

 filled with fiat cartilaginous Seeds, 

 fur rounded by a Pulp. 



There is but one Species of this 

 Plant at prefent known ; <viz. 



Rand i a frutefcens, fpinis bijugis, 

 faliis fubrotundi s , fioribus albis. Hoitfi. 

 Shrubby Randia, with Spines grow- 

 ing two at a Joint, roundim Leaves, 

 and white Flowers. This Plant is 

 figured and defcribed by Sir Hans 

 Shane in his Hillory of Jamaica, 

 under the Title of Lycium forte, foliis 

 fubrotundis integris, fpinis iff foliis ex 

 adverfo fitis. Vol. I. p. 40. 



This Shrub grows plentifully 

 about La Vera Cruz; from whence 

 the Seeds were fent by the late Dr. 

 William Houjloun, who gave this 

 Njme to it, in Honour to Mr. Ifaac 

 Rand^St curious Botanift. 



This Shrub rifes to the Height of 

 ten or twelve Feet in the Country of 

 its Growth, and divides into a great 

 Number of Branches, which are al- 

 4 E 4 ways 



