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they are dcfigned to remain for good ; and tlio' tliefe trees may- 

 be removed at greater ages, yet I have found from experience, that 

 this is the moll proper time in order to raife them to their 

 greateft altitude. 



Th e gold-ftrip'd Bay is of much humbler growth, and is ten- 

 derer than the forts before-named. It is commonly kept in 

 pots, and houfed in winter with hardy green-houfe plants, tho' 

 I have prefervcd it in the open ground, for many years running, 

 tmder the protetflion of other hardier Evergreens ; but in fevere 

 winters it has been tarnifhed, fometimes loft its leaves, and even 

 the young and tender branches have been deftroyed, yet the fuc- 

 ceeding fummer repaired thefe misfortunes. It is a very ftrong 

 rich variegation, and ought to be in all good colle6tions of 

 Evergreens. The beft method of increafing this, is by bud- 

 ding it on any of the plain kinds. 



The Bay tree delights moft on a warm, dry, fandy, or gra- 

 velly foil, where it will grow to the height of between thirty and 

 forty feet ; but to preferve its fine verdure, it fliould be planted 

 in fituations defended from the deftruclive north and eaft winds, 

 to which if much expofed, it will fometimes fuffer in a very fe- 

 vere winter, but generally recovers in fummer, even after ap- 

 pearing quite dead. This plant fliould not have a branch taken 

 from it but in the fpring of the year, as unflcilful, untimely, and 

 late cutting it, has deftroyed great numbers that otherways 

 would have defied the fevereft winters, many examples of which 

 I have feen. 



