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Show A Difcourfe- of Foreft-Trecs. Chap.VIII? r, a delicate: grated Parmegiano , and fo fry them in frefh Butte le-Pyes, our Beatil and ats, Howwe here ufe them in ftew'tl-me ett w/e of their French Cooks teach us; andthis is in truth the veryb the eating of that found Js Fruit, and very commendable; for it Limofin ) is apt to them raw orin Bread (as they do much about nce that I venie {well the belly, though without any other inconrous for fuch as dangé as them emn cond can learn, and yet fome way to preferve are fubject to the Gravel in the Kidnies. The belt place; fomelay’ cold ina s veflel en Earth in them, is to keep them , m, others, 10 Sand them in a Smoke-loft, others, in dry Barly-ftra very wholfome AZats make tree nut Chefthe sof &c. The leave Cattel : But thofe for r Litte traffes to lye on, and they are good rns upleafie-beds , for the crackling noyle they make when onetu flower the y, Laftl : ament Parli de on them, the French call Lilts approved of Cheffauts made into an Electuary with Hony, 1s an tion of decot a h and Coug the Remedy againft {pitting blood, and r. Colou n golde a of hair res tinQu Tree, the of Kind the Chap. VIII. A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. but beingtreated asbefore, youwill find them already jprouted and have need onely to be planted where they are to abide ; bos caufe ( as we faid long fince ) they are moft impatient of tran/planting: But if there be an abfolute neceflity of removing, let yout Tree be about four years old, and then by no means touch the dead with your Kzife, nor cut away fomuchas the very Taproot, if you can well difpofe ofit, fince being ofa pithy and hollow fubftance , the Jeaft diminution, or bruife, will greatly endanger the killing : But feehere what we have faid of the Cheff-nuts {have been told, that the very Tops, and palith Buds of this Tree, whenit firft fprouts, though as late as Aprz/, will take hold ofthe ground, and growto an incredible improvement 5 but firft they fteep them in AG/R and Saffron; but this attempt did not fucceed with us, yet it will be propagated by a Branch flipp'd off with fome of the old wood,and fet in February : Aninduftrious and very experienc’d Hushandman told me, that if they be tran/planted as big as ones Middle , it may be done faferthan when younger5 1 doonely report it :_ What they hint of putting a Tile-/bard under the Nuts when firft fet,to divaricate and fpread the Roots(which are otherwife apt to penetrate very deep) Plike well enough; ’tis CHAP. VII. l 4)Ce Toi Of the Wall-nut. \ | i Hi faid they will receive their own Cyons being Graffed , but that it does not at all improve their Fruit : The beft compoft is the {trewing of Afbes at the foot ofthe Trees, the s/t whereof being wafhed into the Earth , isthe beft drefling, whilft the juice ofthe fallen Jeaves, though it kill the Wor, is noxious to the Root. 2. The Wallnut delights in'a dry, found, and rich Iand s efpecially if it inclinetoa feeding Chalk yor AZarlesand whereit may be ti wnll-nnt. 1, Jew quafi Jovis glans, the Wall-nut, is of feveral forts 5 the oft fhel/,and the hard, the whiter, and the blackergrain: This black bears the worft Nut, but the Timber much tobe preferred, and we might propagate more of them if we were careful to procure them out of Virginia, where they abound , or from Grenoble , which our Cabinet-wakers {o prize. It is faid that the Wallzut kernel wrap'd inits own leaf, being carefully taken out of its fre, brings a Nut without fhel/; butthis is a trifles the beft wayto elevate them is, to fet them as youdo thethef- nut, being planted of the Net, or fet at the diftance you would have him ftand; for which they may be prepared by beating them off the Tree (as was prefcribed of the Chefinut ) fome dayes before they quit the Branches of themfelves, and kept in their Lusks, or without them, till Spring; or by bedding them (being dry ) in fand, or good Earth, till AZarch, from the time theyfell, or were beatenoff the Tree: Orif before, they be fet with husk and all upon them; for the extream bitterneffe thereof is moft exitial, and deadly to Worms ; or it were good to ftrewfome Furzes(broken orchopp'dfmall) under the ground amongft them , to preferve them from Aéice and Rats,when their (els beginto wax tender ; e{pecially if asfome, you fupple them little in warm Cows milk; bur protected fromthe cold (thoughit affect cold rather then extream beat ) asin great Pits, Vallies, and Highway fides 5 alfo in Stoniegrounds, and onHills, efpecially Chalke * likewife in Cornfields < Thus Burgundy abounds with them, where they f{tand in the midft of goodly Wheat-lands,at fixty, and an hundred foot diftance ; andit is{o far from hurting the crop, that’ they look on them as a great Preferver, by keeping the grounds warm; nor dothe roots hinder the Plow. When evertheyfell a Tree ( whichis onely the the old, and decayed) they alwayes planta young one near him; and in feveral places ‘twixt Hexam, and Francfort in Germany , no young Farmer whatfoever is permitted to Marry a Wife, tillhe bring proof that he hath planted, and isa Father of fucha {tated number of Walnut-trees, as the Law isinviolably obferved to this day, for the extraordinary benefit which this Tree affords the Jzhabitants : Andin truth, were this Timber in greater plenty amongf{t us, we fhould have far better Usenfils ofall forts for our Houfes, as Chairs, Stools, Bedfleads, Tables, Wainfcot, Cabinets, €c, in {tead of the more vulgar Beech,fubjett to the worm, weak, and unfightly ; but which to counterfeit and deceive the unwary, they wafh over witha decoftion made of the Green husks of Walnuts, &c. Uay, had we ftore of this waterial, we fhould I find |