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A DISCOURSE 



BOOK II. 3. I have raised them abundantly of tlieir seeds, neither watering 

 "^^y^^^ nor dunging the soil, which in two months will peep ; and being 

 governed like the Cypress, are apt for all the employments of that 

 beautiful tree. To make it grow tall, prune and cleanse it to the very 

 stem ; the male best. The discreet loosening of the earth about the 

 roots also, makes it strangely to prevent your expectations, by suddenly 



plantations, for variety. It is observable, as these trees advance in growth, their branches 

 become cornered, and their leaves suffer a change in their nature. At first they are narrow, 

 sharp-pointed, and produced by threes round the branches, spreading open in a pretty man- 

 ner. The leaves afterwards grow shorter, and are produced by fours, without having any 

 tendency to spread open. The flowers are produced nearly in the same manner as the 

 Virginian kinds, and are succeeded by purplish berries. 



8. JUNIPERUS C BARBADENSis J foliis omnibus quadrifariam imbrieatis, junioribus ovatis, 

 senioribus acutis. Lin. Sp. PI. 1471. Jumper tvitk all the leaves placed by Jours, lying over 

 each other, the young being oval, the older acute. Juniperus Barbadensis, cupressi foliis, ramulis 

 quadi-atis. Pluk. Aim. Commonly called Jamaica berry-.beas.ing cedar. 



This Cedar is a very large timber-tree in Jamaica and other islands, where it grows naturally, 

 and is much sought after for the building of ships, &c. The branches are spreading, many 

 are cornered, and their bark is rough, and of a brown colour. The leaves grow by fours, and 

 lie over each other. They are small ; the older leaves are sharp-pointed, but the younger 

 are more oval ; and many are imbricated like the Cypress. Neither the male nor female 

 flowers, which are found on different plants, make any figure ; the last are succeeded by a 

 small brownish berry. This is a very tender plant, though if it has a shed like the other, it 

 may be nursed until it becomes a large tree. In very hard frosts, care must be taken to lay 

 plenty of litter, &c. round the bottom of the shed, to keep the frost from penetrating into the 

 ground. The shed must always be t£\ken off, and the litter removed from the stem, on the 

 first return of fine open weather. 



9- JUNIPERUS ( SABiNA J foliis oppositis erectis decurrentibus, ramis patuKs. Juniper 

 with opposite, erect, nmning leaves, and spreading branches. Sabina folio Cupressi. B. P. 487. 

 Savin with a Cypress leaf. Common savin. 



Of this species there are three sorts : 1. Spreading Savin ; 2. Upright Savin ; 3. Striped 

 Savin. 



1. The spreading Savin is a low-spreading shrub; the branches have a natural tendency 

 to grow horizontal, or nearly so; so that it must be ranked amongst the lowest growing 

 shrubs ; insomuch that unless it is planted against a wall, or supported in an upright position, 

 we seldom have it higher than two feet. "When it is to be planted and left to nature, room 

 must be allowed for its spreading ; for it will occupy a circle of more than two or three yards 

 diameter, and will choak any other less-powerful shrub that is placed too near it. The bark 

 on the older shoots is of a light brown colour ; but on the younger, which are covered with 

 leaves running into each other, it is of as fine a green as any shrub whatever. The leaves are 

 erect and acute-pointed. They are placed opposite, and grow a little like those of the 



