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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.II. Chap the like advanperss Bee-hives, and Boxes with them, and found as before tage, which is to have them ready for your Seminary, hathbeen fhew’d, and exceedingly prevent the feafon, There be ng of Stones alfo who affirm, that the carefull cracking and openi Growth and. tate precipi ripe) as {oon as , Kernels the e includ which ain.a years advance. ; R: But to purfue this to fome farther Advantages as to what there concerns the eleétion ofyour Seed,It is to be confider'd, that d is vatt difference, (what if 1 fhould affirm more than an hundre to judge I which Bed, and growth fame the of even years) in Trees proceed.from the variety and quality of the Seed: This, for inflance, is evidentlyfeen in the heart, procerity and ftature of Timber; and therefore chufe not your Seeds alwaies from the moft Fruitful-trees, which are commonly the moft Aged, and decayed é but fromfuch as are found mot folid and fair : Nor,for this reafon, covet the largeft Acorms,éc, (but as Husband mex do their Wheat) the moft weiehty, clean and bright : This Obfervation we deduce from Fruit-trees, which we feldom find to bear fo kindly, and plentifully, from afound ftock, fmooth Rind, and firm Wood,as from a rough, lax, and untoward Tree, which is rather prone to {pend it felf in Fruit, (the ultimate effort, and final endeavour of its moft delicate Sap,) than in folid and clofe fubftance to encreafe the Timber. And this fhall fuffice, though fome haply might here recommend to us amore accurate Aicrofcopical examen,to interpret their mott fecret Schematifmes, which were an over «icity for thefe great Plantations, 4, As concerning the medicating, and infuccation of Seeds, or enforcing the Earth byrich and generous Compofts, &c. for Trees ofthefe kinds, I am nogreat favourer ofit ; not only, becaufe the charge would muchdifcourage the Work; but for that we find it unneceflary, andfor moft ofour Foreft-trees, noxious ; fince even where the ground is too fertile, they thrive not fo wells and if a Mould be not properfor one fort it may be fit for another: Yet I would not(bythis) hinder anyfrom thetrial, what advance fuch Experiments will produce : Inthe meantime, forthe fimple Iwzbibztion of fome Seeds and Kernels,when they prove extraordinary dry, and, as the Seafon mayfal] out, it might not be amifs to macerate them in AG/k or Wateronly, a little impreguated with Cow-dung,ec, during the {pace of twentyfour hours,to give thema/pzrt to {prout, and chet the fooner 5 efpecially, if you have been retarded in your fewing without our former preparation. 5+ Being thus provided with Seeds of all kinds, I would advife to raile Woods by fowing them apart, in feveral places deftin'd for their growth, where the Afould being prepar'd (as I fhall thew hereafter) and fo qualified (if election be made) as beft to fuit withthe nature of the Species,they may be fown promifcuonfly,which is the moft natural and Ryral ; or in ftreight and even lines, for Hedg-rows, Avenues, and Walks, which is the more Orzamental : But, becaufe fome may chufe rather to draw them out of Narferies t that A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. that the Cz/ture is not much different,nor the hinderance confides rable (provided they be early,and carefully Removed ){ will finifh what I haveto fay concerning thefe Trees inthe Seminary, and fhew how theyare there to be Raiféd, Tranfplanted, and Gevern'd till they can fhift for themfelves. CHAS Te Of the Seminary, 1.(-)iVineam, vel Arbufium conftituere volet, Seminaria prits facere debebit , was the precept of Columella, 1. 3, ¢. 5. {peaking of Vineyards and Fruit-trees: and, doubtlefle, we cannot purfue a better Courfe for the Propagation of Timber-trees : For though it feem but a trivial defign that one fhould make a Nurfery of Forefters 5 yet itisnot tobe imagin’d, without the experience of it, what prodigious Nuzbers avery {mall fpot of Ground well Cultivated, and deftin’d for this purpofe, would be able tofurnifh towards the fending forth of yearly Colonies into all the naked quarters of a Lerdjhip, or Demeafnes; Being with a pleafant Indufiry liberally diltributed amongft the Tenants, and difpos'd of about the Hedge-roms, and other Waffe, and uncultivated places,for Timber, Shelter, Fuel, and Ornament, to an incredible Advantage. This being a cheap, and Jaudable Work, of fo much pleafare in the execution, and focertain a profit in the event ; to be but once well done (for, as I affirm’d, a veryfmall Nurfery will in a few years people a vaft extent of Ground) hath made me fometimes in admiration at the univerfal negligence, 2. Having therefore made choice of fome fit place of Ground well Fenced, ref{pecting the South eafty rather than the full South, and well protectedfrom the North andIVef? 5 He thet for ‘woo woodhis Field would fow, 1 Mutt clear it of the Shrabbs that grow 3 Cut Brambles up, and the Ferne mow. . OPut ferere ingennum volet agrum Libsrat prins: Yarua fruticibusFt) ; aie Falce rubos, filicemque refecat. Boeth./.2.Met, This done,let it be Broken up the Winter before you fo, to mellow its efpeciallyific be a C/ay, and then the furrow would be made deeper; or fo, at leaft; as you would prepare it for Wheat» Or you mayTrench it with the Spade, by which meansit will the eafier becleanfed of whatfoever mayobftruét the putting forth, andinfinuating of the tender Roots : Then having givenit a fecond fiirring, immediately before you fom,caft, and ‘difpofe it into Rills, or {mall narrow Trenches of four, or five inches deep, and in even lines, at two foot interval, for the more commodious Runcation, Hawing,and drefling the Trees : Into thefe Furrows (for a Confeminea Sylva) |