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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XVIl. Chap. XVII, A Difcourfe: of Fovelt-Trees, 4. For the Place , they above all affect cold, barren , dry , and Sandy grounds ;--alfo Adountains , and. even. Rockie Soils produc e them; but more plentifully , if fomewhat moift, dank- CHAP. XVIL Of the Hafel. Syluefiris, or Corylus, the Hafél, is belt raisd from « INee which you fhall fow like Asaf ina ie deep furrow toward the end of February: Light groun¢ may immediately be fown and harrow'd in very accurately 5 but in ie the mould be clay, plow it earlier, andlet it be fufficiently mellow'd with the Frofs; and then the third year, cut your Zrces : near tothe ground witha harp bil, the Adon decreafing. 2. Butif you would makea Grove for Pleafure , Plant themin Foffes at a yard diftance , and c#t them-within half'a foot of the earth , drefling them forthree or four Springs and Autumns, by onely loofning the Afowld a little about their roots. Others there are, who fet the Nuts by hand at one foot diftance, to be#ranfe planted the third year at ayard afunder : Butthis work is not to be taken in hand fo foon as the Nats fall, tal Winter be well advanc'd 5, becaufe they are exceedingly obnoxious to the Frofs5 nor will they {prouttill the Spring; belides, Vermine are great devourers of them: Preferve them therefore moift > hot mouldy 5 by laying them in their own dry leaves, or in Sand, till Fan“ary. Hafels from Sets and Suckers take. Plantis & dura Coryli nafcuntur-—— Georg 2. 3. From whence they thrive very well, the /hoots being of the fcantlings of {mall wands, and fwitches , or fomewhat bigger, and fuch as have drawn divers Aairy twiggs , which are’ by no meansto be disbranch’d no more than their Roots , unlefs by a very fparing and difcreet hand. Thusyour Coryletum or Copfe of Hafels being Planted about Autumn, may (as fome prattife it ) be cut within three or four inches of the ground the Spring following , which the new Cyor will fuddenly repair, in clufters and tufts of fair poles of twenty, andfometimes thirty foot long : But I rather thould {pare them till two, or three years after, when they fhall have takenftrong hold, and may be cut clofe to the very Earths the improfperous , and feeble ones efpecially, Thus, are likewile Filberts to be treated, both of them improv'd muchby #tram/planting , but chiefly by Graffing, and it would be try'd_ with Filberts, andeven with Almonds themfelves, for more elegant Experiments. 4. For ith, and Moffie, asin’ the frefher bottoms, and fides of Hills , and in Hedge-rowes. Such ag are maintain'd for Coppfes 5 may after Twelve years be fed'd the firft time; the next at leven or eight, @c. for by this period their Roots will be compleatly vigorous. You may Plant’ them fronr Offober to fanuary, provided ue keep them carefully Weeded till they have taken faft hold. 5. The ufe of the Hafel is for Poles, Spars ; Hoops, Forks., Angling rods, Faggots, Cudgels, Coals, and Springes to catch birds ; and it makes one of the beft Coals, once us’d for Gun-po wder , being very fine and Light, till they found Alder to be more fit: There isno Wood which purifies Wine fooner, than the Chipps of Hafél.: Alfo for remember Pay thinks it a. fhould be ftronger to bind then when whole and entire VV¥ith's and Bands, upon which I pretty Speculation, that a Wood withal being bruis:d and divided , 5 Saftly, for Riding Switches and Divivatory Rods for the detecting and finding out of Minerals ; at leaft, if that Tradition be no impofture. But the moft fignal Honourit was ever employ'd in, and which might defervedly ex- alt this humble, and common Plaxt above all the trees of the Wood, is that of Hyrdles ; not for that it is generally usd for the Folding of our Innocent Sheep, an Emblem of the Church s but for making the Walks of one ofthe firkt Chriftian Oratories in the World 5 and particularly in this land, that venerable and Sacred Fabric at Glaffenbury, founded by S. Fofeph of Arimathea, which is ftoried to have beenfirft composd but ofa few fimall Ha- Jel-Rods interwoven about certain Stakes driven into the ground 5 and Walls of thiskind, in ftead of Laths and Punchions > fuperinduc'd witha courfe Afortar made of Loam and Straw, does to this day,inclofe divers humble Cottages, Sheads, and Out-Honfes in the Countrey ; and *tis ftrong and Jafting for fuch purpofés, whole, or Cleft, and Ihave feen ample enclofures of Courts and Gardens {o fecur'd. 6. There is acompendious expedientfor the thickning of cop. Jfes which are too tranfparant , by laying of a Sampler y or Pole of an Hafel, Afh, Poplar, ec. of twenty, or thirty foot in length (the head little lopp’d)into the ground, giving it a Chop near the foot, tomake it fuccumb; #h# faftned tothe earth witha hook or two : and cover'd with fome freth ould at a competent depth (as Gar. deners laytheir Carnations) will produce a world of Suckers.thick- en, and furniflva Cop/e {peedily. But Iam now cometo the /Fater- fides let us next contider the Aquatic. M 2 CHAP. |
