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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.X1V. hat in his e time he found one Scamozzi the Archited, fayes , that, th : This bread in foot y fevent ded exten es : was at; Branch = whole : erg : Witemb of Duke the to ing belong , Vuimfen neer the Necker ; of Strasburgh , is Gates the e befor ed plant find I which that But which in r, anothe one by hard ng growi ee a Plutanws andaL imetr is erected a Pergolo eightfioot from the ground, of Sf foot wide, ir fohaving ten Arches of twe Ive foot height, all fhaded withthe ag lige 5 anc 1 there is befides this, an Over-grown Oak ,. whichh in, an Arbourin it of 60 foot diameter: hear we Rapinus defcribe the ufe of our Horn-beam for thefe and other Blegancies. In Walkes the Horn-beam flands, or in a Maze In twratlus lovigos facilis tibi Carpinus sbit, houfand felf-entangting Labyrinths firays : ranches lopp’d oneither fide, Jey did two Walls divide: 1 This Beauty found, Order did next adorne The Boughs into athoufand figures fhorne, which pleafing Obietts wearineffe betray’d, Your feet intoa Wilderneffe convey'd. Nor better Leaf on twining Arbor fpread , Againtt the fcorching Sam to fhield your head. Mille per evvores, indeprehen fo/que vece(}ws, Et molles tendens fe%o feu pariete ramos, Prabebit vividem diverfo é margine {cenam. Primus hones illi qaondam, pol aditws ordo eé, Attonfeque coma, © formis quafita voluptas Innumeris, faurteque vie, obliquogne recefJu: Insrallus ada edt longos 5 opaca vireta. Quinetiam egregia tendens umbracula frondis Temperat ardestes ramés ingentibus aus. Chap.XlV. A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees, and pecling off alittle of the Bark , at a competent diftance from the Stem or Arms , and covering it with Lome mingled with rich Earth, they will fhoot their fibers , and maybe feafonably feparated : pacts files ne and thelike attempts, it is advifab le to apply a /gature above the place. whe i i ‘aera whenit ehenae $ Seee 2. The Lime-tree affeGs a rich feeding Soil ; in fach Groun their growth will be almoft incredible for {peed and fpreadi d They may _be Planted as big as ones Legs their Heads topp'd ng at about fix foot bole; thus it will become (of alloth er) the moft proper and beautiful for Wa/ks, as producing an upright Body {mooth and even Bark, ample Leaf, {weet Blofom, anda goodly Shade at diftance of eighteen or twenty foot. 3- The Prince Eletfor did lately remove very great Lime-trees out of one of his Foreffs, to a fteep Hill exceedingly expos'd to the heat of the Su# at Hidelbourg ; and that inthe midtt of Sus mer : They grow behind that {trong Tower onthe South-me and moft torrid part of the eminence; being of a dry reddith bar- ren Earths yet do they profper rarely well : But the Heads were cut off, and the P/ts into which they were tranfplanted, were (by the induftry and direction of Monfieur de Son, a Frenchman, that admirable Asechanicean , who himfelf related it to me) filld CHAT tvs Of the Lime-Tree. “Ilia the Lime-Tree, or [ Linden’] is of two kinds; the T Atale ( which fome allow ro bé but a fiaer fort of Elw ) is harder, fuller of knots, and of a reddercolour; but producing neither Flower, nor Seed, as does the Female, whofe Blofontis very odoriferous, perfuting the dir : The Woodis like wife thicker , of {mall pith, and not obnoxious to’ the /Vorn, fo as it feems Theo- Phraftus, de P11. 3. c. 10, faid true, that though they wereof both Sexes Siazheoua MN TH woe 7H San &C. yet they totally differ’'d as to their form. We {end commonly for this Tree into Flanders and Holland, to our exceflive coft, whiles our own Woods do in fomeé places fpontaneoufly produce them, and though of fomewhat a {maller leaf, yet altcgether as good, apt to be civiliz'd, and made more florid. Fromthence | have received manyof their Berries5 fo as itisa fhameful negligence , that we are nobetter provided of Narferies, of a Tree fo choice, and univerfally acceptable, For fo they may be rais’d either of the Seeds in Ofober, or (with better fuccefle ) by the Sackers, and Plants, after the fame method, and inas great abundance asthe Ela , like to which it fhould be ultivated, But not onely by the Sackers, at the vots, but even Branches lop’d from the head, may this Tree be propagated 3 and witha compofition of Earth and Cow-dung, which was exceed- ingly beaten, and fo diluted with Water, as it became almoft 2 liquid pap : It wasin this that he plunged the Roots, covering the furface with the Turf : A fingular example of removing fo great Trees at fuch a feafon , and therefore by me taken notice of here exprefly, 4. The Timber of a well-grown Limeis convenientfor any ufe that the W/ois; but much to be preferr'd,as being both ftronger . and yet lighter ; whence Virgil calls them tilias leves 3 and chieve= fore fit for Yokes , and to be turn’d into Boxes for the Apothecariess and Columella commends <Arculas tiliaceas. And becaufe of its Colour and eafie working, Architects make with it Modells for their defigned Buildingssand {mall Statues,and little curious Figures have been Carved of this wood, With the twigs they made Baskets, and Cradles, and of the {moother fide of the Bark, Tablets for Writing; for the antient Philyra is but our Tilia. Bellonius fayes, that the Grecians made Bottles of it, which theyfinely Rozin'd within. fide, allo Lattices for Windows. The Gravers in Wood do fometimes make ufe of this fine material;and even the courfett mewbrane,orflivers of the Tree growing ‘twixt the Bark and the main Body,theynowtwitt into Baf'-ropes 5 Befides the Truncheons make a far better Coal for Gun-powder than that of Alderit felf : And the extraordinary candor and lightneffé . has dignifi'd it above all the 7¥ods of our Foret, in the hands of the Right Honourable the VVbite-ftave Officers of His Azajefies Imperial Court. Thole royal Plantations of thefe Trees inthe Parks of Hampton Conrt, and St. James's will fufficiently inftruét any man how thefe (and indeed all other Trees |
