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plantations ; and the Elders may be cut down by degrees, as 

 the other trees advance. 



However much this plant is generally difregarded, it is not- 

 withftanding a handfome chearful tree, and, when covered with 

 its numerous clufters of white flowers in fpring, and purple 

 berries in autumn, has a very agreeable efFedl in lawns, clumps, 

 ^c. But I would by no means advife its being planted in the 

 wildernefs or foreft promifcuoufly with other trees, as their 

 creeping roots, that extend a great way, would rob the other 

 plants near them of their proper nourifhment ; neither fliould 

 they be placed in any quantity near habitations, where the 

 ilrong fcent emitted from their flowers will occafion pains in the 

 head ; but, for the firfl-mentioned purpofes of nurflng other 

 plants, difpofed at proper diftances from them, they deferve at- 

 tenuon. 



