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Show UB TA The Species are ; 1. Taxus; 7 B. tree. The common Yew- ‘ Water now and then, which will promote the Growth of the Seeds, many of which will come up the fame Spring, but others wil] re= 2. Taxus; folio latiori, magifque fplen- main in the Ground until the utymy or Spring following ; but where the Seeds ate dente. Boerb. Ind. Yew-tree with a broader and morefhining Leaf. 3. Taxus; foliis variegatis. H. R. Par. The Yew-tree with ftrip’d Leaves. The two firft Sorts are often promifcuoufly cultivated in Gardens, without Diftinétion ; but the third is preferved by fome for the Sakeof its variegated Leaves: Though there is verylittle Beauty in them ; for during the Summer Seafon, when the Plants are in Vigour, the Stripes in the Leaves: are hardly to be perceived, but in Winter they are more obvious; however, the Stripe being rather a Blemifh than any real Beauty, ir is hardly worth preferving. There is hardly any Sort of ever-green Tree which has been fo generally cultivated in the Englifo Gardens, upon the Account of its being fo tonfile, as to be with Eafe reduced into any Shape the Owner pleas’d, and it may be too often feen, efpecially in old Gardens, what a wretched Tafte of Gardening did generally prevail, from the monftrous Figures of Beafts, €c. we find thefe Trees reduced into; but of late this Tafte has been juftly exploded by manyPerfons offuperior Judgment: For what could be more abfurd than the former Methods of planting Gardens? where, in the Part next the Habitation, were crowded a large Quantity of thefe and other Sorts of ever-green Trees, all of which were fheered into fome trite Figure or other; which befides the obftru@ing the Pro{pect from the Houfe, occafioned an annual Expence to render the Trees difagreeable. For there never was a Perfon who had -confider’d the Beauty of a Treein its natural Growth, with all its Branches diffus’d on every Side, but muft acknowledge fuch a Tree infinitely more beautiful than any of thofe fhorn Figures, fo much ftudied by Perfons ofa groveling Imagination. The only Ufe I would recommend this Tree for in Gardens, -is to form Hedges for the Defence of exotick Plants, for which Purpofe it is the moft proper of any Tree in Being :. The Leaves being {mall, the Branches are produced very clofely together, and if carefully thorn, they may be render’d fo clofe, as to break the Winds better than any other Sort of Fence whatever, becaufe they will not be reverberated, as againft Walls, Pales, and other clofe Fences, and fo confequently are muchto be preferr’d for fuch Purpofes. Thefe Trees may be eafily propagated by fowing their Berries in Autumn, as foon as they are ripe (without clearing ’em from the Pulp which furrounds them, as hath been fres quently directed) upon a Bed of frefh undung’d Soil, covering ’em over about halfan Inch thick with the fame Earth. Tn the Spring the Bed muft be carefully clear’d from Weeds, and if the Seafon prove dry, it will be proper to refreth the Bed with preferved above Ground ‘till Spring before they are fown, the Plants do never come up till the Year after, fo that by fowine the Seeds as foon as they are ripe, thereis many times a whole Year faved. Thefe Plants, when they come up, fhould be conftantly clear’d from Weeds, which if permitted to grow amongft ’em, would caufe their Bottoms to be naked, and manytimes deftroy the Plants when they continue long undifturb’d. In this Bed the Plants may remain two Years ; after which, in the Spring ofthe Year, there fhould be a Spot of frefh undune’d Soil prepared, into which the Plants fhould be removed the Beginning of April, placing ’em in Beds about four orfive Feet wide, planting them in Rows about a Foot afunder, and fix Inches Diftance from each otherin the Rows ; obferving tolaya little Mulch upon the Surface of the Ground about their Roots, as alfo to water them in dry Weather until they have taken Root, after which they will require no farther Care, but to keep ’em clear from Weeds in Summer, and to trim them according to the Purpofe for which they are defign’d. In thefe Beds they may remain twoorthree Years, according as they have grown, when they fhould be again removed into a Nur- fery, placing *em in Rowsat three Feet Dif- tance, and the Plants eighteen Inches afunder in the Rows, obferving to do it in the Spring, as was before direéted, and continue to trim “em in the Summer Seafon, according to the Defign for which they are intended; and after they have continued three or four Years in this Nurfery, they may be tranfplanted where they are to remain, always obferving f to remove ’em in the Spring. Thefe Trees are very flow in growing, but yet there are many very large ‘Trees upon fome barren cold Soils in divers Parts of England; the Timber of thefe Treesis greatly efteem’d for many Ufes. TEREBINTHUS, [isderived of ¢:480@, Cicer, becaufe the Fruit of this Tree refem- bles them in Shape.] The Turpentine Tree. The Charaéters are 5 It is Male and Female in different Plants s the Flowers of the Male have no Petals, but confit of a Number of Stamina with Chives 5 the Embryo’s which are produced on the Female Trees do afterwards become an Oval Fruit with 4 hard Sheil, inclofing one or two oblong Kernels. To thefe Notes muft be added; the Leaves are pennated, or winged, which are produced YY Pairs oppofite, and end in a fingle Lobe. The Species are ; die 1. Terestnruus ; vulgaris. C. B. P, The common ‘Turpentine tree. DE TE 2. TereBintuus ; Indita, Theophrafti, Pif= tachia Diafcoridis. Lob. Adv. 'The PiftachiaTERGIFOETUS PLANTS, are fuch ag bear their Seeds on the Backfides oftheir tree, vulgé. Thefe Trees are very common in {everal Leaves. Iflands of the Archipelago, from whence there are annually great Quantities of the Pifachia TERRASSES: A Zerra/s is a {mall Bank Nuts brought into Evgland, which do eafily ofEarth,rais’d and trimm’d according to Line rife if fown on a Hot-bed in the Spring ; fo and Level, for the proper Elevation of any that the Trees of this Kind are much more Perfon that walks round a Garden, that he common in Evgland thanare thofe ofthefirft may have a better Profpect of all that lies Sort, whofe Fruit are rarely brought over round him ; and thefe Elevations are fo neceffrefh: Befides, the Shell of thefe Nuts are fary, that thofe Gardens that have them not, much harder than thofe of the Piftachia, fo are deficient, that many times the Plants do not come up When Zerraffes are rightly fituated, they until the fecond Year, which may alfo have are great Ornaments to fuch Gardens as contributed to the prefent Scarcity of the have them, for their Regularity and OpenPlants in Bugland. ing, efpecially when they are well built, and The Seeds Cor Nuts) of both thefe 'Trees beautified with handfome Stairs and fine fhould be fownin Potsfill’d with frefh, light Afcents. Earth, and plung’d into a moderate Hot-bed, Sometimes under them are made Vaults, obferving to refrefh the Earth with Water Grotto’s, and Cafcades of Water, with an frequently, as it may have Occafion; and Order of Architeéture, and a great many when the Plants are come up (whichthofe of Statues in Niches ; and on the Coping above the Piftachia will do in fix Weeks after fow- are fet Vafes and Flower-pots, orderly rang’d ing) they fhould be inur’d to bear the open and difpos’d. Air by Degrees, into which they muft be There are feveral Kinds of Zerra/s Walks: removd the Beginning of fue, placing them 1. The Great Zerra/s, which lies next to where they may be fcreen’d from the Violence the Houfe, of the Winds, in which Situation they may z. The Side or Middle Zerra/s, which remain until Odfober, when they fhould be is commonly cut above the Level of the remov'd either into a common Hot-bed Frame, Parterre, Lawn, &c. or elfe into a Green-houfe, where they may be defended from hard Froft, but fhould have asmuchfree Air as poffible in mild Weather, and muft be frequently refrefh’d with Water. In March following thefe Plants fhould be remov'd, and each planted in a feparate Pot, filled with frefh light Earth, and as the Spring advances, fo they fhould be again removd into the open Air, and placed amongft other exo- 3. Thofe Zerraffes which encompafs a Garden. 4. Thofe Zerraffes which lie under one another, being cut out ofa large Hill ; and thefe are different one from another,in fome refpec&t or other. As to the Breadth of Side Zerraffes, this is ufually decided by its Correfpondence with fome Pavilion, or fomelittle Jettee of Building; but moft of al] by the Quantity ofStuff tick Plants, obferving to water them frequently that is to {pare for thofe Purpofes. in dry Weather ; and when their Roots are The Side Zerra/s of a Garden ought not to confin'd by the Smalnefs of the Pots, they be lefs than twenty Feet, and but very felmuft be fhifted, being careful not to break dom wider than forty. the Earth off from their Roots, which will As for the Height of a Zerra/s, fome allow greatly injure them, unlefs it be done before it to be but five Feet high, but others more the Plants begin to fhoot in the Spring, for or lefs according to their Fancies; but the at that Seafon they may be tranfplanted with moft exact Perfons never allow above three Feet and a half ; and in a fimall Garden, and as muchSafety as anyother deciduous Trees. In this Manner thefe Plants fhould be treat- a narrow Zerra/s Walk, three Feet, and fomeed for three or four Years, while young, after times two Feet and a half high, are fufficient which Time the Pifachia’s may be planted for a Yerrafs eighteen Fect wide ; and two into the full Ground, obferving to place them Feet nine Inches is fufficient for a Terra/s of in a warm Situation and dry Soil, where they twenty Feet wide; but when the Garden is will endure the Cold ofour ordinary Winters proportionably large, and the Zerra/s is thirty very well, as may be feen by a very large or forty Feet wide, then it muft be at leaft Tree of this Kind, now growing in the Gar- three Feet, or three Feet and a half high. The nobleft Zerra/s is very deficient withdens of the Earl of Peterborough, at Parfon’sGreen near Fulham, which produces Abundance out Shade ; for which Elm-trees are very proof Fruit, without any manner of Care. Nor per: For no Seat can befaid to be compleat, do I believe, but that the common Zurpertine- where there is not an immediate Shade almoft tree would endure the Cold of our Climate, if as foon as out of the Houfe; and therefore after the Plants have acquired Strength, they thefe fhady Trees fhould be detach’d fromthe are planted againft a good Wall upon a dry Body and Wings ofthe Edifice. Zerraffes fhould be planted rather with Elm Soil ; for much Wet about the Roots of thefe Trees in Winter, is very often the Occafion of or good Oak, than with Yew or Holly, that their rotting, whereby the Trees are de- mutt be always clipping. ftroy’d. The |