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glaring, and of longer continuance, remove them annually in 

 poor land for five or fix years, budding a richly-variegated leaf 

 on the green, or rather a variegated flock, which will much 

 brighten, and alfo longer preferve their colours, than if raifed 

 from cuttings. 



Th E Portugal Laurel will not rife to half the magnitude of 

 the others, nor is it fo eafily reared in the pyramidal form, but 

 is a beautiful and elegant plant, of a very chearful fhining ver- 

 dure. It may be propagated either by feeds, layers, or cut- 

 tings, as the former, but, when young, are fomewhat more deli- 

 cate, and will be improved by a higher culture, better foil, and 

 more flieltered fituation for four or five years, after which 'tis 

 abundantly hardy. 



The beauty of the common Laurel is hardly known amongll: 

 us, having formerly been mangled on walls and in hedges, or 

 clip'd to bullies with fliears, which, from the largenefs of its 

 leaves, is of moft plants the leaft proper to ufe in that man- 

 ner : It will grow to the height of between forty and fifty feet, 

 and fucceed in very poor barren foil., Of all the Evergreens fa- 

 miliar to this climate, I have ever efteemed it amongft the moft 

 graceful : It has all the beauty of the Orange tree without its 

 fruit ; and I cannot conceive a richer appearance in nature, than 

 a number of lofty Laurels, that have been properly trained, 

 planted near a houfe, either in fingle trees, in groves, or inter- 

 fperfed with other Evergreens in the wildernefs way. 



It unites perfe6"t]y well, by grafting or budding it on the com- 

 mon black Cherry, and, from that, is confiderably increafed in 

 magnitude, and rendered yet more hardy,. 



