OF FOREST-TREES. 



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Nuptiarum, since the jolly shepherds carried the White Thorn at the CHAP. vr. 

 rape of the Sabines. v.-i^-v-"«^ 



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The distilled water, and stone or kernels of theHawrediiced to powder, 

 is generally agreed to be sovereign against the stone. The Black Crab, 

 rightly seasoned and treated, is famous for walking-staves, and if over- 

 grown, is used in mill-work ; yea, and for rafters of great ships. Here 

 we owe due eulogy to the industry of the late Lord Shaftesbury, who has 

 taught us to make such enclosures of Crab-stocks only, planted close to 

 one another, as there is nothing more impregnable or becoming, or you 

 may sow cider-kernels in a rill, and fence it for a while with a double 

 dry hedge, not only for a sudden and beautiful, but a very profitable 

 enclosure ; because, amongst other benefits, they wiU yield you Cider- 

 fruit in abundance. But in Devonshire they build two walls with theu- 

 stones, settivg them edgeways, two, and then one between ; and so as 

 it rises, fill the interval, or coffer, with earth, (the breadth and height as 

 you please,) continuing the stone-work, and filling ; and, as you work, 

 beating in the stones flat to the sides, they are made to stick everlast- 

 ingly. This is absolutely the neatest, most saving, and profitable fencing 

 imaginable, where slaty stones are in any abundance ; and it becomes 

 not only the most secure to the lands, but the best for cattle, to He warm 

 under the walls ; whilst other hedges, be they ever so thick, admit of 

 some cold winds in winter-time when the leaves are off. Upon these 

 banks they plant not only quicksets, but even Timber-trees, which 

 exceedingly thrive, being out of aU danger. 



The PYRACANTHA, and PALIURUS. 



The PYRACANTHA °, PALIURUS ^ and like preciouser sorts of 

 Thorn and robust Evergreens adorned with Caralin Berries, might easily 



° MESPILUS ( PYRACANTHA J spiiiosa, foliis lanceolato-ovatis crenatis, calycibus fructus 

 obtusis. Lin. Sp. PI. 685. Prickly medlar, caWed pyracantha. It is of the class and 

 order Icosandria Pentagynia. This plant being of a flexible nature, it is usually nailed to 

 the wall, in which situation it shews its berries to great advantage. 



P RHAMNUS (PELiuRus) aculeis geminatis: inferiore reflexo, floribus trigynis. Lin. 



Sp. PI. 281. Christ's thorn. It is of the dass and order Pentatidria Monogj/nia. 



The PALIURUS is supposed to be the plant that composed the crown that was placed 

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