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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. 64 Chap.XI, ing bothin Woods and Hedge-rows, efpecially in the Jatter cack eiuke hilly then low,affordsthe faireft Tember. By feed ing up the boughsto a head,have caufed it to fhoot 3 a st erful height ina little time; but if you would /op it fort «Fire et . be done in Fazuary. The timber is far fuperiour to Beee ns a ufes of the Turner, who feeks it for Difhes, Cups, Trapt Treseeini Ge. as the Joyner for Tables, Inlayings, and for the Gs icalaaa a the grain, when the Azurs and nodofities are rarely diapred , which does much advanceits price, Alfo for the lightnefs (under. the name Ayer) imploy'd often by thofe who make Aéufical Inftraments. But there is a larger fort, which we call the Sycowor, g 2. But the defcription ofthis lefler AZap/e, and the ancientvalue of it,is worth the citing. Acer operum elegantid erfiehiiate Cedro fecundums, pluracjus genera: Album, quod precipui candoris li Gallicum: Lu Tranfpadana Italia, trdnfque Alpes nafcens. _Alternim genus crifpo macularum difcurfu, qui cum excellentiorSuit, ahes dine caudé pavonum nomen accepit, \‘The Maple (fays Phizy) ay _ © elegancy-and finenefs of the woed isnext to the very Cedar it elf: ‘ There are feveral hizds ofit, efpecially the White, whichis won* derfully beautiful 5 this is call’d the French Afaple and growson ‘that part of Jtaly,that is onthe otherfide of Po beyond the Alpes * The otherhas a curl'd grain, fo curioufly maculated.,. that froma * neer refemblance,it was ufually cal’d the Peacocks-tayl,&c.He goes onto commend that of J#ria,and that growing on the Mountains for the beft : But in the next chapter Palcherrimum vero eft Brufeum, multoque excellentius, etiamnum Mollufeulumtuber utrumque arboris ejus Brujcumintortins crifpum, Molluf ulumfimplicius JSparfams Etff magnitudinem menfarum caperet, hand dubie preferretur Cedro, nunc intra pugillares, lettorimgue filicios aut laminas , Ore. € Brufco fiunt menfe nigrefcentes, Cc. Plin. 1. 16.c. 15, 16, - The Brufcum > or * Kuur is wonderfully fair, but the Afo//n/cumis counted moft pre- * cious; both of them Kxobs and {wellings outof the Tree, The ° Brufeum is more intricately crifp'd'5‘the Afo/xfexm not fo much 3 ‘and had we Trees large enough to faw into Planks for Tables , * twould bepreferr’d before Cedar (orCitron,for fo fome Copies ‘read it) but now theyufe it onely for {mall Table-books, and with, *itsthin boards to Wain{cot Bed-Tefters with, @c, The Brufcum “is of ablackifh kind , with which they make Tables, Thus far Pliny. And {uch fpotted Tables were the famous Tigriz, and Pau: therine Curiofities of, not fo call’d from being fupported with fi- gures carved like thofe Bealts , as fome conceive , and was in ute even in our Grazdfathers dayes, but from its natural Spots and ma- culations 5 fucha Table was that of Cicero's, which colt him 10c00. Séflerces ; thatot King Juba, fold for 15000, and another which read of, valu’d at 140000 H. S. whichat about 34. fering , arives toa pretty Summ; and yet thatof the Munritanian Ptoio- mie, was far richer, containing tour Foot and an half diameter , three Inches thick , whichis reported to have been fold for its weight Chap.XI. A Difcourfe of Forekt-Trees, weight inGold : Of that value they were, and fo madly luxurious the age, that when theyat any time reproach’d their Wives for their wanton Expenfivenefle in Pear/ and other rich rifles , they were wont to retort, and turn the Tzb/e s upon their, Husbands, The Kxot of the Timber was the moft eftee md, and is faid to be much refembled by the Female Cyprefwe have now,Lam almoft per{waded, as beautiful Planks of fome Wallnut-tr ees, acer the Roots and of Exgh, wy, Rofe-wood, and Olive, Lhave feen incomparable pieces ; butthe great Art wasin the Seafoning; and Politure, for whichlaft, the rubbing witha Mans hand who came:warm out of the Bath, wasaccou nted better then any Cloth, as,Pliny reports. Some there-be who contend, this Citerz was a part neer the Root of the Cedar , which, as they defcribe that , is very Orzental and Oderiferons , but moft of the Learned favou r the-C#terz, and that it grew not far from our Tangier. about the foot of Afouxt Atlas, when haply fomeinduftrious Perfon might procureofi t from the Moors sand Vhave' not forgotten. to put his Excel lency my Lord: H, Howard in mind of it, who, will. haye all the opportiinities: of fatisfying our Curiofity, that by comparing it with ‘thafe elegant Woods, both our own Countreys , and the Indies furnifh, we migh t Pronounce fomething in the Controverfie. Here I think good to add what honeft Palifyy Philofophifes after his plain manner, about the reafon of thofe pretty undulations and chamf ers, which we fo frequentlyfind in diverfe Woods 5 which hé takes to be the defcent as wellas afcent of Moiffure: For what elfe (fayeshe) becomes of that mater which we often -encounter in the Cavities, when many branc hes divaricate and f{pread' themfelves great Trees (efpecially Polards ) unlefle ( accor at the tops of ding toits natural appetite ) it fink into the very Body of the stew through the Pores? For example, inthe Wall-nut, youfhall when ‘tis o/d, that the Wood is admirably figur’d , and as it find, were warbl'd, and. therefore much more efteemed by the Foyners y Cabin ec, then the Young, whichis paler of Colour, and et-makers . notable Grain, asthey callit.. For the Rain diftillingwithout any along the Branc hes, when many of them break out into clu(ters from theflex, finks#, and is the. Can(é of. thefe marks 5 fince we find. it exceedingly fullof pores: Do but Plane off a thin chip, or fiver from one of thefe ofd Trees, and interpofing it ‘twixt your Eye and ‘the Light, you fhall obferve it to be full of innum erable holes ( wuch more per/picnous and ansple, by the application of a good Microfcope } But above all, notable for thefe extravagant Damaskings and CharaGers, is the Adaple; and ‘tis notorious, that this Tree js very full ofBranches from the Root to its very Summit, by reafon that it produces no confiderable Fruit: Thele Arme being frequently cuty the Headis more furcharged with them, which fpreadinglike fo many Kaies froma Center , form that hollownefe at the top of the Stew whencethey fhoor, capable of containing a good quantity of Water every timeit Raizes : This finking into the pores, as was beforehinted, iscompell’d to divert its courfe as it pafles through |