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OF FOREST-TREES. 17 



spreading into a bush fit for a thousand pretty employments ; for, coming CHAP. i. 

 to be much unlike that which grows wild, and subject to the treading """^"'^^ 

 and cropping of cattle, &c. it may be formed into the most beautiful and 

 useful hedges. My late brother having formerly cut out of one only tree, 

 an arbour capable of receiving three persons to sit in ; it was at my last 

 measuring, seven feet square and eleven in height, and would certainly 



French Tamarisk. This shruh seldom produces flowers or berries ; but when any berries 

 do appear^, they are small^ ai?d of a blueish colour. It deserves a place amongst low-growing 

 Civergreens, on a,ccount of the fine strong green of its leaves both in winter and summer ; but 

 it is valuable for nothing else ; for it produces neither ornamental flowers nor fruit, and 

 is possessed of a very strong smell ; insomuch that when the branches and leaves are 

 accidentally shook by a person's passing by, the whole atmosphere is immediately filled with 

 a foetid scent, highly offensive and disagreeable. The juice of Savin, mixed with milk and 

 honey, is said to be good to expel worms from children ; as well as, without that mixture, to 

 destroy those in horses, for which purpose it is strongly recommended. 



2. The Upright Savin is a delightful tree, and grows to the height of twelve or fourteen feet. 

 The branches are numerous and slender, which gives the tree an elegant appearance. The 

 leaves are nearly of the same nature with the other, but of a darker green. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in plenty, and are succeeded by numerous berries, which have a good effect. The up- 

 right tendency of this tree, with the very dark green colour of the leaves, which causes a good 

 contrast with others that are lighter, together with its not being possessed of the strong dis- 

 agreeable scent of the otlior sort, makes it a valuable shrub for evergreen plantations. 



3. The Striped Savin has not that tendency to spread like the Common, neither does it grow 

 quite so erect as the Upright kind. It is a fine plant, and at present is rather scarce. The 

 ends of several of the young shoots are of a fine cream-colour ; all the smaller branches 

 appear often of that colour, and at a distance have the appearance of flowers growing on the 

 tree. To those who are fond of variegated plants, this shrub has both beauty and scarcity 

 to recommend it. 



The Juniper is of the class and order Dioecia Monodelphia. 



Having given a general account of the various species of this genus of plants, I shall 

 now consider their propagation. They are raised from seeds, which must be sown as soon 

 as ripe, for when they are kept until spring, they do not come up until the second year. 

 The ground in which the seeds of the hardy sorts are sown, should be fresh and light, but 

 not dunged : being well dug and formed into beds, sow your seeds pretty thick, and sift 

 some earth over them about half an inch thick ,■ the beds will require no farther care than 

 only to keep them clear from Vveeds ; and toward the middle or latter end of April, you 

 will find some of the plants appear above ground, though, perhaps, the greatest part of 

 them will lie till the spring following before they come up ; therefore you should carefully 

 clear the beds from weeds, and in very dry weather refresh them with some water, which 

 will greatly promote the growth of those plants which are up, and also cause the other 

 seeds to vegetate ; but if the beds in which these seeds are sown, are much exposed to the 

 sun, they should be shaded with mats in the day ; for when the plants come first gp, they 



