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A DISCOURSE 



SAVINE. 



BOOK II. The SABINE, or, as we caU it, SAVINE^ is not for dignity to be 

 named with the former ; but as it is absolutely the best succedaneum to 

 Cypress, (which the rigour of our climate is not benign to,) our gardeners 

 would do well to increase and cultivate it for the other's defects, and 

 bring up nurseries of them for pyramids, and other tonsile and topiary 

 works. As to its other quality, it has, indeed, an ill report, as most other 

 things have when not rightly applied, whilst there is nothing more 

 efficacious for the destruction of worms in little children, the juice being 

 given in a spoonful of milk, dulcified with a little sugar, which brings 

 them away in heaps, as it does in horses and other cattle, above all other 

 remedies. 



There is another berry-bearing Savine in warmer climates, which also 

 resembles the Cypress, commonly taken for the Tarentine Cypress, so 

 much celebrated by Cato, which grew to noble standards. But that, 

 and the Melesian, worthy the culture, are rare with us, and indeed is as 

 well supplied by the more hardy, as well as the Swedish Juniper, and 

 other shrubs. The Sabine is easily propagated by slips and cuttings, 

 sooner than by the seeds, which are sometimes found in the small 

 squamous seed-cases, 



TAMARISK. 



The TAMARISK ^, (growing to a considerable tree,) for its aptness to 

 be shorn, and governed like the Savine and Cypress, may be entertained, 

 but not for its lasting verdure, which forsakes it in winter, though it is 



*' The SAVINE is a species of Juniper, and has been described in the last chapter, under 

 the title of JUNIPERUS ( sabina Jfoliis oppositis erectis decurreniibus, raviis patulis. 



8 There are two species of this genus ; 



1. TAMARISK (gallica) floribus pentandris. Lin. Sp. PI. S86. Tamarisk milk 

 pentandrous JloTvers. Tamariscus Narbonensis. Lob. Icon. 218. French tamarisk. 



This sort grows naturally in the south of France, in Spain, and in Italy, where it arrives to a tree 

 of middling size ; but in England is seldom more than fourteen or sixteen feet high. The 

 bark is rough, and of a dark-brown colour ; it sends out many slender branches, most of 



