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Show besicelaciae eRe bs T A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. 8 Chap. III. i never to zwter’y' our Stem deeper than ircum{pect this Work fodines in apis: in bn profound buryings ee oF A eats; nid Gedo roy 7tech though an Errour : one ici ] rd to keep the Boay it : ve does Circumftance trifling ofthis hepheaeibe a ‘. Cor enough; 4 Wood- mex :: For moft Roots covet i ry much deceive our ur bana leaft of any, for like Quercus rn the of that (though ase the Z/culus towring head afcends, 7 = “ na fellher os root extends. atowards much So So 1 Andthe p erfection — Jui J quantumvertice i ad auras: s ae : Tartara sendit) icem eps! (/ithereas,.tan é of that does ant as Chesesteaa i ; lince Hom : ee tieapaptpaen! , but im Pe Advertifement 5 That the Pofition be eereo aniedileted and the pores ex- , ie sd renein their Horizontal Settions) by theconap eee a ve their Hyperbolical Circles, being now on the {tant at a a feafon converted to the North, does ferve, and fuddeny anda Trees (how carefull foever men have been in ordering —) erik reparing the Ground) than the Rees B oe fis kinig, and defending any other Accident whatfrom Cattle excepted) the acl elicieor catied the beft of Poets, and a! an in iis Argument, giving advice concerning this Article, to add. Quinctiam Cali regionem in cortice fignant, The Cerd salit points thefameline Bask they EP And as before ftood,npon in the Place to warm fouth,or the obverted 7 : Such force has cuftome, in each tender foule. VF quo quaque gud parteas calores Buia HAE,modo on Steterit, tongs Weieials Reflituant : Adeein temcris cowfwefcere multum ef. Geor.li.te ManeaaeaiceseunnieidiasGeaiebrinnsstay pes Se 3 having fometimes 71ran/planted great vata Mi I abe withfuccefie (the Earth adhearing tothe Roots) aaed in others where this Circumftance only was omitan oT obferve therefore the Coaf?, andfide of the 1 io ally of Fruit-trees ) isnot fuch trifle as by fome pretende : or if the Ai beas much the Mother or Nurfé, as Water and Earth, (as a oe mrobable it is ) {uch bloffoming Plants as court the movar Fine miles Sux, do as twere evidently point out the Shee cake ) receive by their pofition bythe clearnefle, poliapenas Slobaraiore {plendor of the South fide: And the fre- ae moffinef of moft Trees on the oppofite lide, does eo ly note the unkindnefle of that 4/pe& 5 and which is mo ee ty he bark of Oaks white and {mooth 5 The Trees growing . ee i + the Southfide of an Hill, than thofe which are expos ee | oil with an hard, dark, rougher, and more moflie Intothe Pier Ican now demonttrate in a prodigious coat “ oA invefie fome Pyracanths which | have removedto a Northern a Chap.JIl. ping fhade, A Difcourfe of Forett-Trees, 9 [have feen ( writes a wort occafion ) whole Hedge-rows of Apples hy Friend to me on this and Pears that quite perifhed after that fhelter wasremoved : The good Husbands expected the contrary , and that the Frui t fhould improve,.as freed from the predations of the Hedges but ule and cuftom made that fhelter neceflary ; and therefore ( faith he ) a flock for atimeis the -weaker, taken out of a Thic ket , if it be hot well protecte d from, all fudden and fierce invafions cither of crude 4ir or Winds; Norlet any be dete rr’d, if being to remo ve many Trees, he fhall efteem it too confumptive of time; for with a Brujh dipped in any white colour, or Oaker, athoufand maybe marked as they. ftand, in amoment 5 and that once done, the difficulty is over. been the larger I have upon thefe two Remarks, becaufe I find-them fo material, and yet {o much neglected, 8. There are other Rules concerning the fituation of Trees 3 the former Authour commending the Nerth-ea rifhing of the Tree, and advantage of jt-wind both for the fou: the Timber; but to: my obfervation in our Climates, where thof e fharp wivds dorather flan kerthan blowtully oppofite uponour Plant and there are as well other Circumt{tanc ations, they thrive beft; es to beconfidered,as they refpet Rivers and, Marfoes obnoxious to unwholfom and poyfonous Fogs5, Hills, and Seas , which expofe; and thofe /lvifragi venti, our cruel , and them to. the weather 5 tedious Wefern-minds ; all which I leave to Obfervation > becanfe thefe Accidents do fo univerfally govern, that it isnot eafi e.to that, the Téasber is commonly better qual determine farther than ifie the colder Afpects without thefe prejudic d »which, hath endur'd es: And hence it is, that Seneca oblerves Hood molt expos'd to the Winds to'be the moft firong and Jolid ,, and that ther efore Chiron made Achilles’s Spea r of a Mountain-trees and of thofe the bet which grow thin, not much fhelter'd from the North, Again, Theophraftus feemsto have {pecial regard to places; exemplifying inmany of Greece, which exceeded others for good Timber, as doubtlefle do our Oaks in the Foreft of Deaniall others of England : and much certainly there mayreafonablybe attributed to thee advantages for the growth of Trber, and of almoft all other Trees >,a8 we daily fee by their general improfperity where the grou ndisa hot gravel, and a loofé earth: An Oakor Elme infuch a plac e fhall notin an hundredyears overtake one of ffiy planted, in its prop er and (haply) before it, 1 prefer the good Soils though next to this sir: But thus haye they fuch vaft ‘Junipers in Spain; and the dfbes in fome parts of the Levant (as of old neer Troy) fo excellent, as it was after miftaken for Cedar, fo great was the, difference ; asnowthe Cantabrian oy Spanifh exceeds, any we have elfe Wherein Exrope. And we {hall fometimes in our own Country fee Woods withina little of eachother, and toall appe arance, growing on the fame Soi, that Ouks oftwentyyears growth, or forty, will in the fame bulke of Timber, contain their double in Heart and Timber; and that in ove the Heart will pot be fo big as amans arm, when ine trunke |