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Gjfrefs. 



ScarktOah 



ThillyrcA, 



Savine^ 



Tjracamba, 



The PraBiee Part IL 



The Cyprefs is- a very beautiful Tree, and rifes to a 

 great Height. It is furnimed very thick from its Foot to its 

 very Top, which terminates in a Point. Its Timber is very 

 hard, and of a good Smell : Its Leaves, which are of a whi- 

 tifli Green, are very thick 5 it is proper for making Alleys 

 and Palifades. . Its Fruit, call'd the Cyprefs^Appk^ inclofes 

 its Seed, which is fomewhat tedious to raife. 



The Scarlet-Oak, or Holm, fomewhat refembles an Ap- 

 ple-Tree or Pear-Tree s it does not rife fo high as the com- 

 mon Oak, and its Wood is very different, but its Leaves 

 and Acorn are much like it, except that they are fmaller,^ 

 and of a light Green. This Tree is proper to make Walks 

 of, and its Species is perpetuated by the Acorn it bears. 



Those that follow, are only the Shrubs and Planes 

 made ufe of to form Palifades, to furnifli the lower Parts in 

 Woods of Ever-Greens, and to fet off the Borders of Par- 

 terres. 



The Holly paifes for one of the fineft Ever-Greert 

 Shrubs that are to be m:t with ; it does not grow very high^ 

 but is of a fhining Green, and very charming : Its Wood is 

 very hard, of which tliey make Wands and Riding-Switches. 

 Its Leaves are jagged, and befet with Prickles. It is multi- 

 plied by Seed- 



T H E Juniper Tree fhoots pretty high, and fmells very 

 well : Its Wood is very hard, and its Leaves fmall and prick- 

 ly : It produces Seed. 



The Phillyrea is a Slirub tliat does not rife very high : 

 Its Wood is blackifh, and its Leaves refemble thoXe of the 

 Olive, but are fhorter, and of a tolerable good Green. This 

 Shrub grows very well furnifh'd, which makes it efteemed 

 for Pahfades; it grows without Difficulty even in the Shade^ 

 and is propagated either by the Seed or Layers. 



S A B 1 N, or Savine, grows very tall for a Shrub ; its 

 Stem is fomewhat bulky, and its Wood is very hard ; its 

 Leaves are like the Cyprefs-Tree. It is multiply'd by Seed 

 and Layers. 



The Pyracantha, which the French call Le Buijfon Ar^ 

 denty is pretended to be the fame with that, in which Scri- 

 pture tells us God appeared to Mofes. It does not grow 



very 



