The apothecaries well know the use of the berries,
and so doe the vintners, who buy vast quantities of them in London,
and some doe make no inconsiderable profit by the sale of them.
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At the parsonage house at Wyley growes an ash out of the mortar of the
wall of the house, and it flourishes very well and is verdant. It was
nine yeares old in 1686. I doe not insert this as a rarity; but 'tis
strange to consider that it hath its growth and nourishment from the
aire, for from the lime it can receive none. [In August 1847, I
observed a large and venerable ash tree growing out of and united with
the ancient Roman walls of Caistor, near Norwich. The whole of the
base of the trunk was incorporated with bricks, rubble, and mortar;
but the roots no doubt extended many yards into the adjacent soil.-
J. B.]
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Whitty-tree, or wayfaring-tree, is rare in this country; some few in
Cranbourn Chace, and three or four on the south downe of the farme of
Broad Chalke. In Herefordshire they are not uncommon; and they used,
when I was a boy, to make pinnes for the yoakes of their oxen of them,
believing it had vertue to preserve them from being forespoken, as
they call it; and they use to plant one by their dwelling-house,
believing it to preserve from witches and evill eyes.
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Mr. Anthony Hinton, one of the officers of the Earle of Pembroke, did
inoculate, not long before the late civill warres (ten yeares or
more), a bud of Glastonbury Thorne, on a thorne at his farm-house at
Wilton, which blossomes at Christmas as the other did.
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