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before John Tradescante, my very loving good friend, brought it from 
the parts beyond the seas, and planted it in his Lord’s garden at Can- 
terbury.” 
This fruit might be produced in great perfection in Devonshire. 
The Myrtle (Myrtus). In Gleanings from Books in Agriculture and 
Gardening we have the following account. 
1. Common Myrtle. (Myrtus Communis.) 
2. Dutch Myrtle. (Myrica Gale .) 
3. Candleberry Myrtle. (Myrica Cerifera.) 
Culture , &*c. of Dutch Myrtle or Gale. 
1. Soil. Grows spontaneously in this country on marshy barren ground. 
2. Shrub. Grows erect, and is about two or three feet high: the leaves 
have a sweet, agreeable myrtle-like odour. 
3. Use. Is used instead of hops; but unless it is boiled a long time, it 
is apt to occasion head-ach. 
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The cones boiled in water will yield a scum like bees wax, capable of 
beino; made into candles. 
This plant would be useful in cotton spinning manufactures, which, in 
hot weather, are exposed to the biting assault of a species of vermin ( Pulex ), 
which breeds in the dust, and other refuse, necessarily produced in the ope¬ 
ration of spinning: the smell of it being so obnoxious to these vermin and 
moths, that they precipitately fly its approach. Hog-sties littered with it 
frees swine from lice. 
Gathered in the autumn it dies wool yellow. 
It is used to tan calf-skins. 
Linnaeus, from the smell of the plant, is induced to suspect, that Camphor 
might possibly be prepared from it. 
Culture, &*c. of Candleberry Myrtle. 
1. Increased by seed sown in the spring; the young plants must be 
screened from the frost the first winter. 
2. Tree. Bears very well our climate. 
3. Use. In America the berries are boiled in water; when the water 
is cold, they skim off the wax that proceeds from the berries, and make 
candles of it. 
Culture , f&fc. of Common Myrtle. 
1. Shrub. In Cornwall and Devonshire grows every where in the open 
