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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XXXIV. 12. But toadvance his Aajefties Forefts to a pee étion, I fhould again urge the removal ot fome a a. ee {ly placd Jrom mills; if that at leaft be true w! ea bor from cheaper and Irom, er ane eat we hadbett thofe works were ftrangers amongft us. tee pre Nene New-Englifh (vvho are novv become very nu = a fra we ir advance and profpect of the Continent y =: i poe which we want) did about a ba oe oe ee ron-mills am fure $ r, and Stee/ in the bowels of seoo s Ee ReuA EW d and ‘twere cia Englan now but aA , their “ ae . peli fupply to thither haften fhould iin of our dayes 5 whilft his MidSn ait a aeee eae is W s kare Ssisndet both our Countries habitable( thoe madryad’s to whom they owe more a e SE ia ee L d deeply confider the prodigious my : yeaaie ga Glafe works have fags eh pepe net County alone, the County of Suffex, for 120 ve es oe eee a“ ibirtyin breadth ( for fo wide, and nyse hth se emains how now t which there rem dradfwald,of old one intire Wood,bu of i ich’'d with no mean Indignuation : little, orno fign ) would be touch f the other World, would e OTed ee 5 Pe ecome our Irom, al ie- mills ) 7 than thefe exhauft- EA cphosros ; and we prove gainers bythe ee = have faid this already, andI cannot too often incu ; - ie Concerns of a Nation, whofe onely Protection ( under Go r ‘ Wooden Walls. : t , aete thing to be recommended(and ak mod prove no leffe than thirty years, in fome places forty, = Aer y a ty years advance ) werea good (if well execute es Standards, and borduring Trees fromthe Ax of the Neighbourheod : And who would not preferve Zimber, when within fo. f w yearsthe priceis almoft quadrupl'd? 1 pre an twenty, thirty, or forty years growth , areof a long ¢ vonce Nation. of a we Ta: adnts though have in our day general Chapter 7 Caples des clar'd what by our Laws, and common #/age is expert - ore] Fell (and which is indeed moft requifite 3 till our pens a — wile fuppli’d ) yet might muchevenof that he rh a _. Hd no unfrugal permiflions totake down more of the ene oe the benefit of the Under-woods ( efpecially where, by ae ¢ rep ing, and shade they interrupt thekindly Dews, Raizs, an — ion a ahi rif them ) provide provideddthat a proport exces which nourifh tha there were e able number of Timber-trees duly, and throughly Plante a ferved in the Hedge-rows and Bordures of our grounds; in W ie cafe, even the total clearing of occa oe oe advance, asby fad experience has been taugh e ¢ bed Chap.XXXIV. A Difcourfe of Foret-Trees, bands, whofe neceflities fometimes forced them to violate their Standards , and more grown Trees during the late Tyrann y. 15. Norwill it be here unfeafonableto advife, that where Tees are manifeftly perceiv'd to decay, they be marked out for the Ax, that fo the younger may come on for a fupply; efpecially, where they are chiefly E/ws; becaufe their fucceffors haften and perfection ina competent time but beginning to their height onceto grow fick of Age, or otherinfirmity, fuddenly impair ; and lofe much of their value yearly : befides, that the increafe fpeedy Timber, would {pare the more Oak for of th#s, and other Navigation, andthe {turdier ufes, Howgoodly a fight were it, if moft of the Demef nes of our Countrey Gentlemen were crown'dand incircl ’d withfuch ftately rows of Limes, Firs, Elms, and other ample, fhady Trees asadorn New-Hall in Effex , the Seat of that and venerable Suffolk Knight neer Yarmo uth, and our neighbouring Paftures at Barnes 2 Yet were thefe Plantations but of late years in comparifon : It were a noble, and immortal providence toimitate thefe good Hx bands in larger, and more augult Plantations of fach ufeful Trees, for Timber and Fuel, as well as for Shade » and Orzament to our Dwellings, 16. But thefe incomparable undertakings will come the Infpecfion and care of the Honourable beft of all beRangers, when they delight themfelves as much Lieutenants, and in of their Trees, as other men generally do in their the goodlineffe Dogs, and Hor/es, for Races, and Hunting; neither of which Recrea tions is comparable to that of Planting, either for Virtue, or Pleafu re, were things jultly confider’d accordingto their true eftima tion: Not yet that Tamof fo morofe an humour, that I reprove any of thofe noble, and manly Diverfionsy feafonably us’d ; but becauf e I would court the Izdufiry of great and opulent perfons, to profita ble, and permanent delights : For, fuppofe that Ambition were chang’d into a laudable emulation , who fhould beft, and with moft artifice, raife a Plantation of Trees, that fhould have all the proper Ornam andperfections their natureis fufceptible of, by their direGt ents, ion and encouragement; fuch as Zax fums up lib, 3, ¢. 14. cuyertis of uaddoty gixiun word, &c. kind, and gentle Limbs, plentyof large leaves, an ample, and fair body, profound, or {preading Roots, {trong againft impetuous Winds ( for fo Laffe& to read it) extenfive, and venerable Shade, and the like : Mcthinks there wereas much a fubject of Glory as could be phancied of the kind 3 and come. parable, 1durft pronounce, preferrable > toanyofthei r Recreati« ons; and how goodly an Ornament to their Deme/ nes and Dyel- lings , let their own eyes be the judges. 17. One Encouragement more, 1 would reinforce from an Hifto- ryThave read of acertain frugal, and moft Induftrious Italian Noble-man , who,after his Lady was brought to Bed of a Danghter, confidering that Wood and Timber was a Revenue coming on whilft the Owners were afleep : commanded his Servants rs to ant |
