rom flowing freely about them, or indeed any other trees; provided
they are secur'd from cattel, and the violence of impetuous winds, &c.
as His Majesty's are, without those close coffins, in which the
Dutch-men seem rather to bury them alive: In the mean time, is there a
more ravishing or delightful object, than to behold some intire streets,
and whole towns planted with these trees, in even lines before their
doors, so as they seem like cities in a wood? this is extreamly fresh,
of admirable effect against the epilepsie, for which the delicately
scented blossoms are held prevalent, and skreen the houses both from
winds, sun, and dust; than which there can be nothing more desirable
where streets are much frequented. For thus

The stately Lime, smooth, gentle, streight and fair,
(With which no other Dryad may compare)
With verdant locks, and fragrant blossoms deckt,
Does a large, ev'n, odorate shade project.{127:1}

_Dirae_ and curses therefore on those inhuman and ambitious tyrants, who,
not contented with their own dominions, invade their peaceful neighbour,
and send their legions, without distinction, to destroy and level to the
ground such venerable and goodly plantations, and noble avenues,
irreparable marks of their barbarity.

The distance for walks (as we said) may in rich ground, be twenty five
foot, in more ordinary soil, eighteen or twenty. For a most prodigious
tree of this kind, see Chap. 39. sect. 10.

The berries reduc'd to powder, cure the dysentery and stop blood at the
nose: The distill'd-water is good against the epilepsy, apoplexy,
vertigo, trembling of the heart, gravel; Schroder commends a mucilage of
the bark for wounds, _repellens urinam, & menses ciens_, &c. And I am
told, the juice of the leaves fixes colours.

FOOTNOTES:

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Stat philyra; haud omnes formosior altera surgit
Inter hamadryades; mollissima, candida, laevis,
Et viridante coma, & beneolenti flore superba,
Spargit odoratam late, atque aequaliter umbram.

_Couleii_, l. 6, Pl.

CHAPTER XIV.

_Of the Poplar, Aspen, and Abele._

1. _Populus._ I begin this second class (according to our former
distribution) with the poplar, of which there are several kinds; white,
black, &c. (which in Candy 'tis reported bears seed) besides the aspen.
The white (famous heretofore for yielding its _umbram hospitalem_) is
the most ordinary with us, to be rais'd in abundance by every set or