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jested to grow undifturb'd for feve- 

 tai Years. 



Yoa mull alfo obferve to train 

 their Heads upright, and not fuffer 

 tfcem to grow awry, which they are 

 naturally too much inclin'd to : but 

 j would by no means advife the 

 bearing them in Pyramids (as is too 

 often praclifed), but rather lead them 

 Bp for Timber-trees ; for they will 

 grow to a confiderable Size, provi- 

 ded they like the Soil they are plant- 

 ed in. 



In removing thefe Trees from the 

 Koarfeyy to the Places where they are 

 lk$gyd to be continued, you mould 

 always obferve to do it jult as they 

 cait their Leaves ; as alfo to take 

 them up with a large Ball of Earth 

 to their Roots ; and, when planted, 

 the Ground mould be mukh'd, and 

 the Plants ftak'd, to prevent the 

 Wind from loofening them, or blow- 

 ing them out of the Ground. Thefe 

 Directions, if duly executed, will 

 be furncient, and there will be no 

 Danger of their fucceeding. But the 

 chief Caufe why many of thefe 

 Trees have fail'd, upon their being 

 icmov*d, was the not doing it in a 

 proper Seafon, or tlfe that they were 

 not carefully taken up. 



Thefe Trees mould not remain 

 long in the Nurfery before they are 

 cranl plan ted where they are to Hand 

 for good ; for when they are large, 

 they do not bear removing well. 

 The belt Size for tranfplanting are 

 thofe of about two Feet, or two 

 Feet and an half high. Thefe will 

 foon outgrow fueh as are much lar- 

 ger when tranfplanted. 



As thefe Trees put out early in 

 the Spring, fo where they cannot be 

 remove^ at Michaelmas, it Ihould 

 not be deferred later than February ; 

 becaufe when they begin to moot, 

 it will be too late. 



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Thefe Trees are very proper for j 

 the Sides of barren Hills, where few I 

 other Sorts will thrive fo well ; nor 

 is this Tree very delicate in its Soil ; ! 

 but will grow much better on poor 

 ftrong ftony Land, than in rich 

 Ground : and during the Summer 

 they appear very beautiful ; but in 

 Autumn they call their Leaves, 

 whereby fome People have been de- 

 ceiv'd, by fuppofing them dead, and 

 have deftroy'd them. 



From the wounded Bark of this 

 Tree exudes the pureft Venice Tur- 

 pentine ; and on the Body and 

 Branches of it grows the Agaric, 

 which is a Drug ufed in Medicine : 

 the Wood is very durable, and (by 

 fome) reported to be very difficult 

 to burn. But I don't know how this 

 mould be, to a Tree which abounds 

 with Turpentine ; tho' it is faid alfo 

 to be fo ponderous as to fink in 

 Water, It will polifh exceeding well, 

 and is by the Architects abroad 

 much coveted, both forHoufes, and 

 building of Ships. 



Witfen t a Dutch Writer upon Naval 

 Architecture, mentions a Ship to be 

 long fince found in the Numidian 

 Sea, twelve Fathoms under Water, 

 being chiefly built of this Timber 

 and Cyprefs, both which Woods 

 were reduced to that Hardnefs, as 

 to refill the fharpeft Tools j nor was 

 any Part of it perim'd, tho' it had 

 lain above a thoufand Years fub- 

 merged. And it was upon Tables of 

 this Wood that Raphael, andfeveral 

 of the greateft Artifts, eterniz'd 

 their Skill, before the Ufe of Can- 

 vas was introduced. 



The third Sort is the Cedar of I 

 Libanus, and is a Tree of great An- 

 tiquity ; 'and, what is remarkable, 

 this Tree is not found as a Native 

 in any other Part of the World, fo 

 far as hath come to our Knowlege. 



