1 7 % The 3\(atural Hi/lorj 
nature, in a top branch of Holly hanging up in the Gate-honfe of 
the PhyficK-gcirden^ whence 'tis plain, that this happens alfo to 
the hardeft woods ; and in both, by the afcent of too much 
nouriftiment, though in branches of Trees, efpecially fuch as are 
not only flat but helically curled, I guefs there concurs fome blaft, 
or fome fuch like matter, that contrafts the fibers and fo turns 
them round, befide the cxcefs in the afcent of their nourilh- i 
ment. 
83. As for the ftriped leaves of Trees^zs well as chofe of Shrubs^ 
and herbaceous Plants^ I fuppofe they may be met with almoft in 
every kind. The greater Maf k^ mifcalled the Sycomore, was found 
ftriped white not many years fince in Mjgdalen College Grove, 
and tranflated thence into the Fhyfick-garden^ where it Oourifties 
ftill aad retains its firifings ; and 1 hear of a ftriped Elm fom- 
where in Dorfet-fiire, Dr. Childrey and out of him the inge- 
nious Mr. Evelyn ^, inform us of an Oak in Lanhadron Park in the 
County of Cornwall (to omit the painted Oak. in the Hundred of 
Eaft^ which conftantly bears leaves fpeckled with white. And 
there was another of thefe found this inftant year, 1^7^. by my - 
worthy Friend Dr. 1 homa6Tayler^ in a place called Frid-wood^ in 
the Paridi of Borden near Sittingbourn in Kent, But of thefe more 
hereafter, when I come into thofe Counties. 
84. Of Vnufual trees now cultivated in Oxford-JlAre^ there 
are fome remarkable ; fuch is the Abele-tree^ advantagioully pro- 
pagated by Sir George Croke of IFaterflock-i which he does, by 
cutting ftahs out of the more fubftantial part of the v^ood^ which 
put into moift ground grow more freely than willows^ coming in 
three or four years time to an incredible height. And fuch are 
the Fir-tree^ and the leffer mountain Fine^ whereof there are fe- 
veral iV/zr/enes- planted in the Quincunx order, at Cornbmy^ in the" 
Park, of the Right Honorable the Earl of Clarendon^ which they : 
propagate by flip twifted, as well as by Eernels^ to that advantage 
that there is great hopes of beautiful and ftately Groves of them ; 
fuch as I met with at the Right Woriliipful Sir Feter Wentworths at 
Lillingston Lovely where there are three Walks of Firs^ moft of 
them 20 yards high. 
85. Which Pariili, if the Reader look for in the Map of Ox- 
fordjlnre hemuft notexpeftto find,though it belong to the County^ 
^ Bntamtia.Baco?tiCii in Corn-wall. ' Difcourfeof ForeftTrees. ■<:i?j>. 3. 
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