with a little sugar, which brings them away in heaps; as
it does in horses and other cattel above all other remedies.

There is another berry-bearing savine in warmer climats, which also
resembles the cypress, commonly taken for the Tarrentine cypress, so
much celebrated by Cato, which grew to noble standards: But that, and
the Melesian, worthy the culture, are rare with us, and indeed is as
well supply'd by the more hardy, as well as the Swedish juniper, and
other shrubs. The sabine is easily propagated by slips and cuttings
sooner than by the seeds, though sometimes found in the small squamous
seed-cases.

_Tamaric_, (growing to a considerable tree) for its aptness to be shorn
and govern'd like the sabine and cypress, may be entertain'd, but not
for its lasting verdure, which forsakes it in Winter, but soon again
restores it. It was of old counted _infelix_, and under malediction, and
therefore used to wreath, and be put on the heads of malefactors: But it
has other excellent properties, in particular sovereign against the
spleen, which as{281:1} Camden tells us was therefore brought first into
England by Grindal Archbishop of Canterbury: They also made cans to
drink, out of this wood.

_Thuya_; by some call'd _arbor vitae_, (brought us from Canada,) is an
hardy green all the Winter, (though a little tarnish'd in very sharp
weather) rais'd to a tree of moderate stature, bearing a ragged leaf,
not unlike the cypress, only somewhat flatter, and not so thick set and
close: It bears small longish clogs and seeds, but takes much better by
layers and slips, as those we have before mentioned, and may be kept
into the same shapes, but most delights in the shade, where the roots
running shallow, the stem needs support: The leaf being bruised between
the fingers, emits a powerful scent not easily conquer'd, seeming to
breathe something of a sanative unguent, and (as I am told) makes one of
the best for the closure of green and fresh wounds: But that those
curious utensils and works of the turners, bowls, boxes, cups, mortars,
pestles, &c. are of this material (as is pretended) and pass under the
name of _lignum vitae_, (or rather of some of the exotic, more close and
ponderous wood) as Brasile, log-wood, &c. is a mistake: Upon recension
therefore of these exotics, I cannot but encourage the more frequent
raising the rest of those _semper-vivents_, especially such as are
fittest for the shrubby parts, and furniture of our gro