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also, makes it strangely to prevent your Expectations, by suddenly Chap. IV.spreading into a Bujh fit for a thousand pretty Employments; for com- '-^YVing to be much unlike that which grows wild, and is subject to thetreading and cropping of Cattle, Gc. it may be formed into most beau-tiful and useful Hedges. My late Brother having formerly cut out ofone only Tree, an Arbour capable for three to fit in; it was at my lastmeasuring seven Foot square, and eleven in Height; and would cer-tainly have been of a much greater Altitude, and farther spreading, hadit not continually been kept Jhorn : But what is most considerable, is, thelittle Time since it planted, being then hardly^// Tears, and then itwas brought out of the Common a slender Bujh , of about two Foot high:

But I have experimented a proportionable Improvement in my ownGarden, where I do mingle them with Cypress ; and they would per-fectly become their Stations, where they might enjoy the Sun, and mayvery properly be set where Cypress does not so well thrive, namely,in such Gardens and Courts as are open to the Eddy-winds , whichindeed a little discolours our Junipers when they blow easterly to-wards the Spring, but they constantly recover again ; and besides, theShrub is tonstle, and may be shorn into any Form. I wonder Virgil

should condemn its Shadow. Juniperi gnavis jdmbra - 1 suspect

him mifreported.

In the mean Time, Botanists are not fully agreed to what Speciesmany noble and stately Trees, pasting under the Names os'Cedar, areto be reckoned ; and therefore (for I cannot but mention those of theVermuda again in this Place) being so beautiful, tall, thick set withEvergreen-leaves, like the Juniper , with Berries indeed much larger,and may also be propagated by Layers ; affording a Timber close,ruddy for the most Part, easy to work, and yielding excellent Floor -ing fit for Wainscot, and all curious Cabinet-works ’, keeping its agree-able Odour and Fragrancy longer than the rest : There is also made apleasant and wholsome Drink of the Seeds , as they do of our commonJuniper ; of which hereafter. Nearest the Bermuda Juniper comesthe Virginia, both yet exceeded by that of Carolina , for the Perfecti-ons already mentioned, speaking of Cedar , not forgetting the Oxy-Cedrus , which is reputed a Sort of Juniper ; the Berries so abound-ing on our uncultivated Bujkes and barren Heaths , always pregnant,annually ripen, though not all at a Time ; some sticking longer, so asthere will be black, green and gray succeeding one another.

4. And these afford (besides a tolerable Fepper) one of the mostuniversal Remedies in the World, to our crazy Forester ; the Berriesswallowed only, instantly appease the Wind-cholick, and in Decoction Use*.most soveraign against an inveterate Cough : They are of rare Effect,being steep d in Beer 5 and in some Northern Countries they use aHecoBion of the Berries , as we do Coffee and Tea .- The Water is amost singular Specifick against the Gravel in the Reins ; but all is com-prehended in theVirtue of the Theriacle , or EleBuaryyn hich I have oftenmade for my poor Neighbours , and may well be termed the Forester’sPanacea against the Stone, Rheum , Fthysic, ^Dropsy, Jaundice , in-ward Impofthumes , nay, False, Gout, and Plague it self, taken likeVznice-Treacle. Of the extracted Oil (with that of Nuts) is made anexcellent good Varnijh for FiBures, Wood-work, and to preserve po-ll Jhed Iron from the Rust. The Gum is good to rub on Parchmentor Faster, to make it bear Ink, and the Coals, which are made of the

Wood,