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Show ‘ A Difcourfe of Forett-Trees. Chap, 1V. for other Zrees, where the Soil is over moift, orunkind : For as the El/wdoes not thrive in too dry, Sandy, or hot grounds, no morewill it abide the cold and fpungy 5 butin places that are competentlyfertile, or a little elevated from thefe annoyances ; as we fee inthe Afounds , and caftings up of Ditches, upon whofe banks the Fezzle fort does more naturally delight ; though it feems tobe fo much more addided to fomeplaces than to others, that I have frequently doubted, whetherit bea pure Indigene or tranJlatitious ; and not onely becaufe I have hardly ever known any confiderable Woods of them Cbcfides fome few Nurferies neer Cambridge , planted | fuppofe for {tore ) but almoft continuallyin Tufts, Hedg rowes, and Mounds; and that Shropfhire , and feveral other Counties, have rarely, any growing in manymiles together, 9. The Elm is by reafon ofits afpiring, and tapering growth ( unleffe it be topped to enlarge the Brawches, and make them {pread low ) the leaft offenfive to Corn and Paffure rounds, to both which, andthe Cattel, they afforda benign fhadedefence, and agreeable Ornament. 10. It would be planted as fhalow as might bes, for, as we noted, deep interring of Roots is amongft the Catholick miftakess and of this, the greateft to which Trees are obnoxious, Let new planted Elms be kept moift by frequent refrefhings upon fome half-rotten Fern, or Litter laid about the foot of the fies the earth little ftirred and deprefled for the better reception, and retention of the Water, : 11. Laftly, your Plantation muft aboveall things be carefully preferved from Cattel, and the concuflions of impetuous Winds, till they are ont of reach of the one, and fturdy enough to en- counter the other. ; 12. Whenyou lop the fide-boughs of an Elus C which may be about January for the Fire, and more frequently, if’ you defire to havethem tall; or that you would form them into Hedgés (for fo they may be kept plafhed , and thickned to the higheft twig ; affording botha magnificent, and auguft defence againtt the Winds and Suz) Ifay, when you trim them, be careful’ to indulge the tops ; for they protect the body of your Trees from the. wet, whichalwayes invades thofe parts firft, and will intime peri/h them to the very heartsfo as Elwes beginning thus to decay,are not long profperous. Sir Hugh Plat relates Cas from an expert Carpenter) that the boughs and branches of an Elz {hould be left afoot long next the trunk when they are lop'ds but this is tomycertain obfervationa very great miftake either in the Helator 5 or Authour ; for! have noted many Elms {0 disbranched 5 that the remaining fixbs grew immediately hollow, and were as fo many Coxduits or Pipes, to hold, and convey the Rain to the very body and heart of the Tree. 13. Thereis a Cloyffer of the right French Elm in the little Gare den necrto her Atajefties the QueenAfothers Chappel at Somerfer- Poufe, which were (Ifuppofe ) plant edthere, by the induftry of the Chap. 1V. A Difeourfe of Forelt-Trees, the F. F. Capuchines , that will perfectly comparable ule-of thisnoble 7ree for fhadedire& you:to: the ins and delight, into what= ever figure you will accuftom them. [hav fome of them from Paris, but they were e my felf procured portation, that they all perithed fave oue,fo abufed inthe ‘Tranf. with me: [have alfo heard of grafting which now flourifhes Elwzs to a great improvement of their heads; Vreil tells us they will joyn in Marriage’ withthe 02k , and they would both be tryed ; and that withthe more probable fuccefle, for fuchlignon the Earth, upon, or xeer the very Roots kinds, if you Staff under entertain the Cyon better than when moreitfelf} which is likely to fixt, and have made fome confiderable progrexpofed, tillitbe well effe. 14. When you would Fel, let the Sap be perfe@ly in repofe ; as'tiscommonly about Novenber or Decem well nipp'd them : TI have already alleaber, after the Sroft hath dged and lam told, that both zh and Elm fo cut, myreafon for it 5 the very Saplings (whereof Rafters, Spars, &c, are made ) will continue as long as the very heart of the Tree, without decay . In this work > cut your kerfe neer tothe ground; but have in the fal’, and be ruined with its own a care thatit fuffer not weight : This depends upcn your Wood-mans judgment in disbr anching, and is a necefia. tycaution tothe Felling ofallother Timbe r-trees, If any begin to doat,pick out fachfor the Ax,and rathe 15. Elmis a Timber of moft fingular r truft to its Sueceffor, maylie continually dry,or wet in extre ules efpecially where it amess therefore properfor Water -worksy Mills, Pipes , Pumps, Aquedufts , Ship-planks beneath the Waterline 5 and fome that has been found buried in Bogs has turned like the moft polith'd, and hardeft Ebony, onely difcerned by the grain : Alf for Wheel -wrig hts , Handles for the Jingle Hand faw, the knotty for Naves, the ftraight and {mooth for Axe/ trees, and the very Root s for curioufly dappled works, {carce has any fuperior for Kerb s of Coppers, Featheridge, and Weather-boards, Chopping-blocks, Blocks for the Hatmaker, Trunks, and Boxes to be covered with leather ; for Dreffers 9 and Shov el. board-Tables of great leng th, and a luftrous Colour if righ t] feafoned 3 alfo for the Carver, grain, and toughnefle which fits by reafon of the tenor of the it forall thofe curious works of Frutages, Foleage, Shields, Stat ues, and moft of the Ornaments appertaining to the Orders of Architedure; and for not bei ng much fubj ectt o warping; I find that of old the y ufed it even for hinge &es and hooks of Doors; but then, that part of the Plank, which frewtowards the top of the Tree verfed : But befides thefe and , was in work to be alwayesremakes alfo the fecond fort of fundry other employments, it Charcoal; and finally ( which I muft not omit) the ufeof the veryleaves ofthis Tree, efpecial of the female,isnot to be defpis'd ly the Suz upon the Branches, and ; for being fuffered to dry in the [pray ttrip'd off about the decreafé in Anguf? (as alfo where the fuckers and frolones are fuper-numerary,and hinder the thri ving of their Nurfes) they will prove |
