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A DISCOURSE 



BOOK 1 1, fit for other buildings ; it is celebrated for its emulating the Cedar, though 

 '■"''''^y^^ YiQt in stature, yet in its lastingness ; and such, I think, the learned 

 Dr. Sloane mentions growing in Jamaica, little inferior to the Bermudas. 



2. Of Juniper we have three or four sorts, male, female, and dwarf ; 

 whereof one is much taller and more fit for improvement. The wood 



— C. B. P. Greater Juniper milk blue berries. Cedrus Hispanica procerior, fructu maximo 

 nigro. Tourn. Inst. Spanish cedar. 



The Spanish Cedar grows plentifully in the country from whence it derives its name, and is 

 itself a regular growing tree, rising in a conical form, if the branches are untouched, to the 

 height of thirty feet or more. The leaves are imbricated, and lie over each other four ways ; 

 they are acute, and of a fine green colour : from these properties only an idea of a fine tree 

 may be had. The flowers are insignificant to a common observer, but they are succeeded by 

 berries which make a good show when ripe ; they are very large, and of a fine black colour, 

 and adorn the young branches in great plenty. 



4. JUNIPERUS (lycia ) foliis ternis undique imbricatis ovatis obtusis. Lin. Sp. PI. 

 1471. Juniper with (xvalf blunt leaves placed by threes, rvhich every where lie over each other. 

 Cedrus, folio Cupressi, media, majoribus baccis. C. B. P. 487. Middle Cedar with a 

 Cypress leaf, and larger berries. The lycian cedar. 



The Lycian Cedar grows naturally in the country so called, and is as common in Spain as the 

 former sort. It will rise to the height of about twenty-five feet. The branches have 

 naturally an upright position, and their bark is of a reddish hue. The leaves are every 

 where imbricated, obtuse, and of an oval figure. They resemble those of the Cypress, and 

 are very beautiful. The flowers are succeeded by large oval berries, of a brown colour, and 

 are produced in plenty from the sides of the younger branches all over the tree. The 

 resinous gum, called Olibanum, is the produce of this tree: when burnt upon live coals, 

 it sends forth a most agreeable smell, which induces me to think that it might be the frank- 

 incense of the Jews. The thus, or frankincense of the shops, is a very different substance 

 from this, being a concrete on the surface of the terebinthinate juice of the Pine, that pro- 

 duces the Terebinthina communis. 



5. JUNIPERUS ^PHffiNici^ J foliis ternis obliteratis imbricatis obtusis. Lin. Sp. 1471. 

 Juniper with leaves placed by threes, which are obliterate, obtuse, and lying over each other. 

 Cedrus folio Cupressi major, fructu flavescente. C. B. P. Greater Cedar with a Cypress 

 leaf and yellowish fruit. The phcenician cedar. 



The Phcenician Cedar seldom grows higher than twenty feet, and is a beautiful upright tree^ 

 forming a kind of pyramid, if untouched, from the bottom. It has both ternate and 

 imbricated leaves ; the under ones grow by threes, and spread open ; and the upper ones are 

 obtuse, and lie over each other like the Cypress. The flowers are produced from the ends 

 of the branches ; and the fruit that succeeds them is rather small, and of a yellow colour, — 



