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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. i ain, Lime-ftones, or fquallid Shel ote ° eRe en Vapors, and gliding moifture eee Chap.XXXII, Chap.XXXIII. i : . bibu lum,aut i {quallenteisinfode conchas, Aut lapidem om labentar aqua, tenut(que fubibic Inter fa eesee Georg. 2s hemafter a competent time i , elfe Ife the th remember you remove then ut will fhelter, and produce ue which Infeéés a tbe Bik eatlyinjuretheir Bark, gnaw, 18. eee pie vill be ftrangled with Corn, Oates, Peafe, or Hemp, ora any ankly growing Grain, if a competent czrcle and diftance be not ‘left (as of neara yard, orfo ) of the Stem5 this ne ; : , mark. ufe is h in them , eminentPit an having ly, Cefpecial # Slae Trees ex cole are inexor cold and tender too ) whene ither heat, » or i a . . @ . ust eee in very wet, or fuomy weather5 anc’in this mre iss : a> eat to difcharge all Zrees of unthriving, mes wig ci. an to take them 56 ; browe, and fuch as our Lew terms Cablicéa, off tothe quick, And for Ever-greens,e{pecially fach as are toads pane nena after Planting, till they 2 heeicits thatis, by fom i nave taken. ~ ; eee Tecnical names , or diffimiler parts of ihees, asI find them enumerated by the wee and Learn Dr. Merett, Scapus, Truncus, Cortex, Liber, Ma sila ‘a Mi Medulla & Cor, Pekten, Circuli, Surculi, Sg Cares as ame li, Spadix, Vimen, Virgultum & Cremium , Vitilia, aa By : Termes, Turiones ; Frondes, Cachryas © COR i Ws S re tulus, Come : The Species Frutex, Baeie ‘ 3 re re leave to be put into good and proper Exgly y tho aa ne once oblige our ete wine : nihgd ee utely comp g J = ¢iaerate am S. Se coe ne Time, she Seafon of the flourifhing of Trees, computing from the entrie of each Loerie neSeeee note; thatis, from March ( where the Door egings nae 2 ly. March, Acer 3. ( (i) from March to May, vz. we ie ¢ fic de ceteris) Populus 2, Quercus 5. Sorbus2. Uv iy oy AP \, “Alnus 2, Betula 2. Caftanea 4: Enonymus 2. Fagns 2. Nux-Fuglans 3. Salix 2. Sambucus2. CHAP. XXXIIL Of the Laws and Statutes for the Prefervation, and Improvement of Woods, dec, xe oe notto be pafled by , that the very firft Lew we find which was ever promule'd , was concerning Trees; and that Laws themfelves werefirlt Writt en upon them, or Tab/es com: pos'd of them 5 and after that Eftablifhment in we meet withal are as Antient as Afo/és ; you Paradifé, the next mayfind the Statute at large in Dent. c.20.u.19, 20. Which though they ded to Fruit-Trees, even in an Enemies Countrey, chiefly tenyet you will find acafe anyother, ————mne pars fincera trabatur. i A Difcourfe of Foreh-Trees, ce 6 May, Con Os eRe 4: Juniperus, Morus 2. Tilia 4. June, Aquifolinm 2. Ju y> ° : ee: ufefull Obfervations are to be collected , and added tothefe , fromthe diligent experience of Planters, CHAP. of neceffity, onelyalledg’d for the permiffion to deftr oy 2, To Summe upbriefly the Lawes, and Civil Confti tutions of great Antiquity , by which Servius informsus *twas no lefle than Capital, alienas arbores incidere; the Lex 4quili xii. Tabb. mention’d by Paulus, Cajus, Julian a, and thofe of the us, and others of that Robe, repeated divers more. It was by thofe Sacred Conflitutions provided, that none might fo muchas Plant Trees on the Confines of his Neighbours Ground , but be was to leave a fpace of at the leaft five foot, for the fmalleft Tree, that they might not injure him with their in Vicini agrum impenderit, eam fublucato, Gc, fhadow. Si Arbor and if for all this, any hung over farther , ‘twas to be ftrip'd up fiftee n foots; And this Law Baldwinus, Olderdorpius, and Hotoman pian L. 1. F, de Arb. Cedend. where we have therecites outof V/Prators Interdi€ exprefs'd, and the impendent Wood adjudged to appertain to him whofe field, or fence was thereby damnified : Nay , the Wife Solon prefcribed Ordinances for the veryd iftances of Trees s as the divine Plato did againtt ftealing offruit, and violating of Plantations : Andthe interdidtion de Glande legend a runs thus in Ulpian, AIT PRATOR, GLANDEM, QU EX ILLIVUS AGRO IN TUUM CADIT, QUV0 AMMINVS ILL] TERTIO QUO QUE DIE LEGERE AUFERRE LICEAT, VIM FIERI VETO. thoug hby the Pretors permiflion he might come every And yet »’ third day to gather it up without Trefpa/e, his Neighb our was to fhare of the Maft which fo fell into his Ground 5 and this plied by Pliny1. 16. ¢. 5. and Cajus upon Chapter is well fupthe Place, interprets Glandeto fignifie not the Acorns of the Oak alone, butall forts of fruit whatfoever, 1. 136. F. de Verb, Signif . L. Unis ff, de Glan de leg, as byufage of the Greeks among {t whom dxpodyva imports all kind of Trees, Ee Moreover, |
