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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees.- Chap.XXIV. (which may in time cometo be ofa large fubftance, fit for the moft immortal of Timber) plant of the reputed Adale fort 5 itisa Tree which will profper wonderfully, and where the ground is hot, and gravelly ,though (as we fay’d) hebe nothing fo beautiful; and it is of this, that the Venetians make their greateft profit, ; g. There is likewife the Tarentine Cyprefs, fo much celebrated by Cato; [donot mean our Savine, (which fome erroneoufly take for it,though there be a Berry bearing Savine, much refembling the Cyprefs, which comes to provea gallant, uprightTree, fit for the Standard,) Both that, and the Milefian, are worthy our culture, 10. I havealready fhew'd how this Tree is to be rais'd from the feeds but there was another A¢ethod amongit the Axcients, who (asI told you) were wont to make great Plantations of them for their Timber: I have practisd it my felf, and therefore defcribe it, 11. If youreceive your feed in the Nuts which ufesto be ga- ther'd zhrié a year, (but feldom ripening with us) expofe them tothe Suz till they gape, or neer a gentle fire, or put them in warme water, by whichmeansthe feeds will be eafily fhaken out 5 forif you have them openbefore, they do notyield you half their crop. About the beginning of April (or before,if the weatherbefhowery) prepare aneven Bed , which being madeoffine earth , clap down with your Spade , as Gard'ners do for Purfelain-feed: of old they roll'd it with fome Stone or Cylinder) Uponthis ftrew your feeds pretty thick 5 then fieft over them fome more would fomewhat better thanhalfan inch inheight : keep them duly watered after Sun-fet,unlefs the feafon do it for yous andafter one years growth (for theywill be an inch high in little more than a Asoneth) you may tranfplant them where you pleafe. In watering them , I give you this caution(which may alfo ferve you for moft tender and delicatefeeds’) that you deaw them rather with a broom or fpergatory, then hazard the beating them out with the common watering-pot 5 and when they are well come up, be but {paring of water - Be fure likewife that youclenfe them whenthe meeds are very young and tender, leaft in ftead ofpurging,you quite erradicate your Cyprefs: Wehave fpoken of # ‘atering, and indeed whilft young,if well fol- low'd, they will make a prodigious advance: whenthat long,and imcomparable walke of Gyprefs at Frafcati neer Rome was firft planted, they drew a fmall{tream (and indeed Irrigare is properly thus, aguawe inducere riguis (.e.) in fmall gutters and rills) by the foot of it, (as the Water there isin abundance traétable) and made it arrive to leven oreight foot height in one year; but with us, we maynot be tooprodigal; fince , being once well taken, they thrive beft in our {andy , light, and warmeft grounds , whence Cardanlays , juxta aquas areeit, meaning in low and moorifh placesy {titfand cold earth, ec. where theynever thrive. 12. What the U/es ofthis Timber are » for Chefs and other Uten- fils, Harps , and divers other Méufical Infiruments (it being a very fonorus Chap. XXIV. A Difcoiirfe of Fore%-Trees, fonorous wood, and therefore employ’d for Organ-pipes, as here. tofore for /upporters of Vines ; Poles, Rails , and Planks, (refitting the Worm , Moth, and. all putrefaction to etermity) the Venetians fafficiently underftand ; who did every twenty year, and oftner (the Rowans everythirteen) make a confiderable Revenue of it out of Candy: And certainlya verygainful commodity it was,when the Fell of a Cupreffetum was heretofore reputed a good Daughters Portion , andthe Plantation it felf call’d Dotem filie. But there was in Candy a valt Wood ofthefe Trees belonging to the Republique, by malice or accident fet on Fire,which Anno 1400. burnt for feven years continually , before it could be quite extinguith'd ; fed fo long afpace by the #xduous nature of the Timber , of which there wereto be feen at Venice planks of above foxre foot in bredth; and formerly the Valves ofSaint Peters Church at Rome were framed ofthis Material, which lafted fromthe great Conffantine to Pope Engenius the Fourths time, almoft fix hundred years; and then were found as frefh and intire asif they had been new : But this Pope would needs change them for Gates of Braj, which were caft by the famous Antonio Philarete ; not in my opinion fo venerable as thofe other of Cyprefe. It was in Coffins of this material, that Thycidides telsus , the Athenians usd to bury their Heros. 13. The Timber of this wood was ofinfinite efteem with the Axtients : That lalting Bridge built over the Euphrates by Semiramis was madeof this wood 3 andit is reported, Plato chofe it to Write his Laws in before Braff it felf, for the dixturnity of the matter : It is certain, that it never rifts or cleaves, but with great violence; and the bitterzeffe of its juice prefervesit from all Worms, and pu- trifaétions Tothis day thofe of Greet, and Afalta make ufe ofit for their Busldings ; becaufe they haveit in plenty, andthereis nothing out-laftsit , or can be more beautifull , efpecially than the Root of the wilderfort, incomparable for its crifped undulations, Divers Learned Perfons have conceiv'd the Gopher mention’d in holy Writ , Gen. 6.14. and of whichthe rk was built, to have been no other than this Kuadpiases, Cupar or Cupers by the eafie mutation of Letters 5 and befide, ‘tis known that in Creet they employ’'dit for the fame #fé in the largeft contigzations , and did formerly build ships of it s And Epiphanivs Haref.l, 1. tells us, fome Reliques of that Ark lafted evento his dayes, and was judged to have been of Cyprefe. Some indeed fuppofe that Gopher was the Name of a Place a Cupreffis, as Elon a Quercubws and might pofltbly be that which Strabo calls Cupreferum neer Adiabens in Afyria: But for the reafon ofits longlafting, Coffizs, as noted, for the dead were made of it, and thenceit firft became to be Diti Sacra 3 and the Values or Doors of the Ephefine Temple were likewife ofit, as we obferv'd but now were thofe of St» Peters at Rome : Works of Cyp reffe wood, permanent ad dinturnitatem, {ayes Vitruvius I, 2. and the Poet j ——— perpetta nunquam moritura Cupreffo. ‘ ; pe ; ; ral Mart, Z. 6. 6. Ro But |