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in bad condition, it may not be amiss to plunge the pots into which they 
are transplanted in a gentle hot-bed, or to set them in the tan-pit, to make 
them strike and shoot more freely. 
Though the Tea-tree will not at present bear the rigour of our winters, 
in the open air, says Professor Martyn , in his account of the Tea in Miller s 
Dictionary , yet it is not impossible but it may gradually become naturalised 
to our climate , like the Magnolia , among several other trees and shrubs; 
especially if it were to be brought from the coldest provinces of China , where 
it grows, or from the parts of Europe a little to the southward of us , when 
it shall have been naturalised there.* 
It is doubted by some whether the Olive (Olea) might not be cultivated 
in Devonshire, a county equal to the whole of the Genoese territories, and 
not less than all the Balearic islands , which was once a monarchy. This 
county contains 1,000,000 acres. Its seasons are so mild that here the 
myrtle remains out the whole of the winter, and snow is never seen more 
than two or three days on the ground. The scenery of this county is most 
beautiful, whether we view the Teign, the Dart, or the Tamar, and their ver¬ 
dant banks, or take a general survey of the whole county, we shall find it 
charmingly diversified with hill and valley, the vales filled with villages, 
surrounded by gardens and orchards, and the hills covered with wood, or 
cultivated with corn to their summits. Add to this a beautiful view fre¬ 
quently of the sea, the shore presenting to our sight grand and secure bays, 
filled with fleets, the sources of our wealth and commerce, and the proud 
bulwarks of England. On the other hand, the prospect is bounded by the 
Darthmore mountains, which screen from the north, rivers issuing from its 
sides, which give a fine finish to the beautiful landscape, wmrthy indeed the 
pencil of a Wilson , or a Claude . 
It is here, to render this county more truly a Paradise, that the Tea and 
Olive should be first cultivated. This latter evergreen seldom becomes a 
large tree; but two or three stems frequently rise from the same root, from 
twenty to thirty feet high, putting out branches almost their whole length, 
covered with a gray bark. Leaves stiff, about two inches and a half long, 
and half an inch broad in the middle, gradually diminishing to both ends, 
of a lively green on their upper side, and hoary on their under, standing 
Vide Martyn s Miller’s Gardener’s Dictionary, article Thea, Tea, the end. 
