The Yew. 



a small part of the new growth not taken off by the 

 shears. 



600. As to the planting of woods of Yew Trees, few per- 

 sons would think of such a thing; but it might be very 

 conveniently and cheaply done, by raising the plants as 

 above-directed, and by making them form part of a cop- 

 pice, in precisely the same manner, and at the same dis- 

 tance, as directed for the Tulip Tree. 



601. I have heard, and I believe, that Yew-leaves, or 

 boughs, if, when a little withered, eaten by cattle or sheep, 

 will kill them, and nearly instantly. Doubtless there was 

 some old rule, relative to the poisonousness of the Yew, to 

 induce the witches, in Macbeth, to make its " slips " part 

 of the ingredients of their deadly cauldron. Horses, 

 horn-cattle, and sheep, should not, therefore, be put into 

 places where Yew trees, or hedges, have been recently 

 clipped or trimmed up. 



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