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Show -A Diftourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap lV, Chap. V. mers ; provegreat relief to attelin Winter, and {corching Sum Oates, re befo them when Hay and fodder is dear3 they will eat onely to lay and thrive. exceedingly well with them ; rememberur Barn . It ofyo er corn t your Boxghs up in fome dry and {wee advis d, was for this the Poet prais'd them, and the Epithite was fruitful in leaves the Elms fecuisda frondibus VUimi. road in Spring, ies be which endangers whole Stocks, if Remed Countries on timely Pabibited ; therefore ‘tis faid in great Elm , The learn to yet hIam whic of truth the they do not thrive, but Cuts or d woun greez a s Green leaf of the Elms contufed, heale . bones ur’d fract es lidat confo and: boyledwith the Bark ty CHAP. -V. Of the Beech. Georg. 2+ them in Sacks for In fone parts of Herefordfhire they gather Husbandry. But tothis ding accor Cattel other and , thicir Swine ° ing ng ofof the bloomi hearan ill report of them for Bees, that furfeit theirfirft going at Lask, the to ious obnox are they , Seeds ing A Difcourfe of Foref-Trees. , He Beech, [ Fagus] (of to or three kinds) and numbred amongft the giandiferous Trees,I rank here before the martial 4/, becaufe it commonly. grows to a greater ftature. But here I may not omit a Note of the accurate Critis Palmerins , upona paflage in Theophrafius, where he Animadverts upon his Iterpreter , and fhews that the antient #"y*s was by no means the Beech, but a kind of Oak ; for that the figure of the fruit is fo widely unlike it; that being round, this triangular; Tkeophrafius and Paufanias make it indeed a Species wholly differing in Yruzk, as well-as Fruit and Leaf, headds ( what determinesthe Controverfie ) Svacv tis gitafoy xab downésdor, Oce That it is of a firm Timber, not and-both of Oak, to which guy® tau, obnoxious to the Werm, neither of which can fo. confidently be faid of the Beech. Yet LaCerda too feems guilty of the fame wiffake : But leaving this, there are of our Fgi , too or three dinds with us 5 AQCQW INT he. Exercit. iw Theophrast.l.Ze be De the Mountain (whereit moft affets to grow) whichis the whiteft, and moft fought after by the Turzer 5 and the Campeffral or wild, whichis of a blacker colour, and more durable. They are both to be rais'd from the Af@ff, and govern’dlike the Oak ( of which amply ) andthat is abfolutely the beft way of furnifhing a Wood : But they are likewife to be planted of young feedlings to be drawn out of the places where the fruitful Trees abound, In tran{planting them cut off onely the boughs and bruifed parts,two Inches from the fre, to within a yard of the top; but be very {paring of the Root : This, for fuch as are of pretty fature, They make fpreading Trees, and noble Shades with their well- furnifhed and gliftering Jeaves , being fet.at forty foot diftance$ but they grow taller, and more upright inthe Fore/ts,whete I have beheld them at eeht and tex foot, fhoot into very long Poles 5 but neither fo apttor Timber, nor Fuel : In the Vallies ( where they {tand warmand in Confort) they will grow to a ftupendiOusprocerity, though the foyl be ftony and very barren: Alfo upon the declivities , fides, and tops of high Hills, and Chalkie Mountains efpecially 5 forthey will ftrangely infinuate their roots into the bowels of thofe feemingly impenetrable places, not much unlike the Firr it felf, which, with this fo common Tree, the great Cefar denies to be tound in Britanny, Materia cnjufque generis, ut in Gallia, preter Fagum @ abietem : But certainly from 4 rrand miftake, or rather, for that he had not travelled much up int nto : 103 Arcad. |
