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We (hould. Indeed, find great profufion of this 
flirub in Berkfliire, as AfiTer Menevenfis hath derived 
the name of that county from the word Berroc : I 
could never either fee, or hear of, box in any part of 
it, except where it had been ufed in a parterre, to fe- 
parate the beds of flowers. 
I have like wife looked into Benfon’s Saxon Voca- 
bulary, nor can I find any fuch word as Berroc. 
Mr. Lye’s new Saxon Didionary furnilhes alfo no 
fuch Article ; on the contrary, he derives Bapocpcipe 
a quadam nuda quercu in forefta de Vin&epoupe ad 
quam lolebant provinciales convenire. He cites for 
this Joh. Bromton 8oi. 
I fhall now mention fome trees and Ihrubs, which 
I have doubts whether they are natives of Great-Bri- 
tain or not, though they are fo confidered by the Bo- 
tanifts ; 1 cannot pretend, however, to be fo pofitive 
as in fome of the former articles. 
I never law the Yew where it grew in large 
maffes, or appeared to have been fown by the hand of 
nature. The mofl: confiderable numbers which I 
have happened to meet with are on fome of the 
Surrey hills : thefe, however, fcarcely in any inftance, 
cover more than an acre of ground. 
If I fhould be right in fuppofing that this tree is of 
foreign growth, it may then be, perhaps, contended, 
that we have no evcr-green tree or flarub which is in- 
digenous, except the Holly, the Juniper, and the Ivy. 
Every church-yard, indeed, proves that this tree 
hath been for many centuries introduced into Eng- 
land ; it feems, however, very extraordinary that we 
flaould have no account when, or for what purpofe, 
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