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most sovereign against an inveterate cough. They are of rare effect CHAP, 

 being steeped in beer; and in some northern countries they use 

 a decoction of the berries as we do coffee and tea. The water is a most 

 singular specific against the gravel in the reins ; but all is comprehended 

 in the virtue of the theriacle, or electuary, which I have often made for 

 my poor neighbours, and may well be termed the forester's panacea 



under frames, where they may be covered in hard frosty weather, but must have open 

 air when the weather is mild. In April following, you should transplant them each into 

 a small pot filled with fresh light earth, being careful to raise them up with a ball of earth, 

 to their roots ; and when they are planted, you should water them, to settle the earth to 

 the roots ; then place the pots in a warm situation, where they may be defended from sun 

 and wind; but if you plunge the pots into a moderate hot-bed, it will greatly promote 

 their taking new root ; however, you must carefully defend them from the great heat of the 

 sun, which is injurious to them when fresh removed ; but when they have taken root, yoa 

 may expose them by degrees to the open air. If you suffer the pots to remain plunged 

 all the summer, it will preserve the earth therein from drying so fast as it would do, if they 

 were set upon the ground. 



In Octobei', you should again remove these plants into shelter, or else plunge the pots 

 into the ground under a warm hedge, where they may be protected from the cold north 

 and east winds ; and in the spring following you must shift the plants into pots of a size 

 larger, taking away some of the earth from the outside of the ball, and adding some fresh, 

 which will promote their growth; and so continue to manage them as was before 

 directed, until you plant them out into the places where they are designed to remain ; 

 which should not be done till they are four or five years old, by which time they will be 

 strong enough to bear the cold of our common winters. 



The reason for my directing these plants to be preserved in pots until they are planted 

 out for good is, because, they are difficult to transplant, and being tender will require some 

 shelter while young ; and whoever observes the method here laid down, will find the plants 

 so managed, to gain two years' growth in six, from those raised in the open air, and be in 

 less danger of being destroyed ; and as the trouble and expense in raising them this way 

 is not great, so it is worth practising, since in a few years the trees will recompense the 

 trouble. 



The timber of the Bermudas Cedar is of a reddish colour ; it has a sweet smell, and is 

 commonly known in England by the name of Cedar Wood. It is chiefly employed in 

 making pencils, but formerly they used it for chests and staircases. In the West-Indies it is 

 employed in naval architecture, and it is reported that ships built with this timber are not 

 liable to have their bottoms eaten by the worm. 



The Jamaica Juniper is more impatient of cold than the Bermudas ; it wiU not live 

 through the winter in the open air in England, so the plants must be preserved in pots, 

 and housed in the winter. This is propagated by seeds, in the same way as the Bermudas 

 Cedar ; but if the pots are plunged into a moderate hot-bed the second spring after 

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