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Show A Difcourfe of Forett- Trees. g2 Chap, XX: 29, What, moft of the former enumerated kinds differ from the Sallys, is indeed not much confiderable, they being generally ules ful for the fame -purpofes; as Boxes, fuch as Apothecaries and Goldfuiths ule, for Cart-Saddle-trees, yea, Gun-ftocks, and Half-Pikes Harrows, Shooe-makers Lafts, Heels, Clogs for Pattens, Forkt,Rakes, efpecially the Zooths, which fhould be wedg’d with Oak, but let them not be cut for this when the Sapis ftirring, becaufe theywill fhrink, Pearches, Hop-poles, Ricing of Kidny-beans, and for Supporters to Vines, when our Englifh Vineyards come morein requeft ; Alfo for Hurdles, Sieves, Lattices; for the Turner, Kyele-pins,great Town-Topps 3 for Platters , little Cafhes and Veffels ; efpecially to preferve Verjuices inthe beft of any : Pailes are alfo made of cleft Willow, Dorfers, Fruit-baskets, Canus, Hives for Bees, Tren: chers, Trays, and for polifhing and whetting Table-Kuives, the Butler will find it above any Wood or Whet-ftone 5 alfo for Coals and Bavin, not forgetting the frefh boughs, which ofall the Trees in Chap. XXI. A Difcourje of Foreft-Trees, CHAP. XXI. Of Fences, Quick-fets, &c. L. Ur main Plantation is now finifh’d, and ‘our Foreft adorn'd QO with a juftvaréety : But whatis yetall this labour, but loffe of time, and irreparable expexce, unlefle our young, and (as yet)tender Plants be fufficiently guarded from all external iz- juries for, as old Tuer, q nature, yield the moft chaft and cooleft Shade in the hotteft fea- fon of the day ; and this Umbrage fo wholefome, that Phyfictans prefcribe it to Feaverifh perfons, permitting them to be plac'd even about their Beds, asafafe and comfortable refrigerium, The wood being preferv'd dry will dure avery long time 5 but that whichis found wholly putrifi'd, and reduc'd toa loamyearth in the hollow trunks of /uperannuated Trees, is, of all other, the fitteft to be mingl*d withfine mould, for the raifing our choiceft Flowers, {uch as Anemonies, Ranunculws’s, Auriculas, and the like. What would we more ? low Broom,and Sallys wild, Or feed the Flock, or Shepheards fhade, or Field Hedges about 9 Or do us Hony yield. But with fomething amore polifh’d tile, thoughtothe fame pur- pofe, thebeft of Poets, Plath Fences thy Plantation round about, And whilft yet Young,be fure keep Cattell out, Severeft Winters, fcorching Sun infeft, (lefts Texende fepes eriani, & pecus omue teneudum ef « Pracipue, dum frons tenera, impruden|que laborum Cui, fuper indignas hyemes, Jolemquepotentem, And Sheep,Goats,Bullocks,all young Plants mo- Sylueftres Usialfidue, capreaque fequaces Quid majora fequor> Salices,humile(qne genifta, Aut ille pecori frondem,aut pastovibus ambram Sufficinnt, fepemque fatis, & pabula melli. Georg. 2. 30. Nowbyall thefe Plantations of the Aquatic Tices , it is evident, the Lords of Moorith Commons, and unprofitable Wafte, maylearn fome Improvement , and the neighbour Bees be gratifieds and many Tools of Husbandry become much cheaper. I conclude, with the Learned Stephanus’s note uponthefe kind of Trees, after he has enumerated the univerfal benefit of the Salium : Nullins enivetutior reditus , minorilve impendii, aut tempeftatis feeurier. JE Cattel, oz Cony may entet to Crop, Poung Dak ig indangerc of lofing hig Cop, Yet neither Cold, nor the hoar rigid Froft, Iludunt : Like Cattel Trees, and tender Shootsconfound, Amt gravis incumbens eopulis arentibus altas; uantum ii nocuere greges,durique venenum Nor Heatreflecting from the Rocky Coaft, ‘When with invenom’d Teeth the twigs they (wound. Pafcuntur Ovesavidagne juvencad Frigora wes tantim cana concreta pruing, Dent#, © admor{o fignata in stirpe cicatriz. Georg. 24 2, Forthe reafon that fo many complain of the improfperous condition of their Wood-lands, and Plantations of this kind, proceeds from this wegleé#; though (Sheep excepted) there is no employment whatfoeverincident tothe Farmer, which requires lefs expence to gratifie their expectations : One diligent, and skilfal tan will govern five hundred Acres’: _Butif through anyaccident a Beaf? fhall break into his Adafters Fields or the wicked Hunterstmake aGap for his Dogsand Horfés,; what a clamor is there made for the difturbance of ayears Crop at moft in a little Corn 2 whiles abandoning his young Woodsall this time, and perhaps ma- ny years, to the venomous bitings and treading of Cattel, and otherlike injuries (for want of due care ) the detrimentis many times irreparable : Young Trees once cropp'd hardly ever recovering: Itisthe bane of all our moft hopeful Timber. 3. But fhall I provoke youby an inftance 2 A Kins-man ofmine has a Wood of more than 60 years {tanding 3 it was, before he purchas'd it, expos'd and abandon’d to the Caftel for divers years : fome of the outwardskirts were nothingfave farubs and miferable fearolings 5 |
