OF FOREST-TREES. ^§ 



me wonder to find the Angustifolia planted in cases, and so charily set chap. IV. 

 into stoves, amongst the oranges and lemons; when, by long experience, "-^^V^ 

 I have found it equalling our Holly, in suffering the extremest rigours 

 of our cruel frosts and winds, which, doubtless, of all our English trees, 

 is the most insensible and stout. 



They are (both Alaternus and this) raised of the seeds, (though those 

 of the PhiUyrea will be long under ground,) and being transplanted for 

 espalier hedges or standards, are to be governed by the shears, as oft as 

 there is occasion : the Alaternus wiU be up in a month or two after it is 

 sown. I was wont to wash them out of the berry, and, drying them in a 

 piece of cloth, commit them to the nursery-bed. Plant them out at two 

 years' growth, and clip them after rain in the spring, before they grow 

 sticky, and whilst the shoots are tender ; thus wiU they form an hedge, 

 (though planted but in single rows, and at two feet distance,) of a yard in 

 thickness, twenty feet high if you desire it, and furnished to the bottom: 

 but for an hedge of this altitude it would require the friendship of some 

 wall, or a frame of lusty poles, to secure against the winds one of the most 

 delicious objects in nature: but if we could have store of the Phillyrea folio 

 leviter serrato, (of which I have raised some very fine plants from the 

 seeds,) we might fear no weather ; the verdure is incomparable, and all 

 of them tonsile, fit for cradle-work and umbracula frondium. 



MYRTLES 



The vulgar Italian wild MYRTLE (tho' not indeed the most fragrant) 

 grows high, and supports all weathers and climates. They thrive abroad 



3. PHILLYREA (latifolia) foliis cordato-ovatis serratis. Lin. Sp. PI. 10. Broad- 

 leaved PHILLYREA. PhiUyrea is of, the class and order Diaiidria Monogynia. 



The Phillyrea and Alaternus appear so much alike, that they are frequently mistaken for each 

 other by many gardeners ; but it may be proper to observe, that the number of stamina 

 are different; the flowers of the Alaternus having five stamina with their antheroe, whilst 

 the flowers of the Phillyrea have only two. They not only therefore belong to different 

 classes, but another obvious difference presents itself, and that is, the leaves of the Phillyrea 

 stand opposite on the branches by pairs, whereas those of the Alaternus stand singly, and are 

 produced in an alternate manner. 



^ Of this most delicately looking shrub there are thirteen species described by Linnaeus- 



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