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Show $8 Oxiers. ay, Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XX, tranfplant. The ceedingly the firft year, and in three, be fit to : ; ary. Febru is fity Curio this for n Seafo s,comkind ble mera innu of are , Salix ic 17. Oziers or the Aquat beo tr are s Sallye monlydiftinguifh’d from Sallyes 4 as Chap.XX. A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees, Yellow Oxier, the Green-Ozier , the Sake or fpeckled Ozier , Swallow-tayl, andthe Spaniard : To thefe we may add amongtt the numberof Oziers (for they are both govern’d and usd alike) the Flanders VVillow, which will arrive to bea large Tree as big as ones ana fhorter liv 7 - ave ing fo much fmaller then the Sallyes , y moiffure, yet wouldbe Planted in - era middle, the oftner cutthe better : With thefe our Coopers tie their Hoops, tokeep them bent. Laftly, the white-Sallow, which being of a Year or two growth,is usd for Greez-work; and if of Wicker and Twiggie Works =: men provide great quantities, @c, 20. Thefe choicerforts of Oxiers, which are ever the fuzalleft ; alfothe golden-yellow, and white, which is preferr'd for propagation, and to breed of, fhould be Planted of fips of two, or three years growth a foot deep, and half a yard length, in Asoorify ground, or bazks, or elfe in furrows fo that (as fomedirect ) the Roots may frequently reach the mater 5 for Fulminibus Salices— ring more conftant which we frequently ifm ground , than over roift and {pewing , limber, and fleximore yields te cut Trenches to avert - It likewi Lattices, Cradles , Cages, , ampers Hi ts, Flaske s, Basket for ble twigs ’tis of excellent which for ns Wago and the Bodies of Coaches, be wrought and coverd = ufe, light, durable, and neat, as it may be wile for Fifth Wazrs , Forchairs, Hurdles, Stayes, Bands, Gc. like s : In fine, for all and to fupport the Banks of impetuous River the tougheft fort , to make quarter-Can-hoops , of which our Sea- though we commonlyfind it rots them, and therefore never choofe Viminibus Salice.— 1. But thefe fort of Ozéers would becut in the new Jhoot 5 for if they {tand longer they become more inflexible; ct them clofe tothe head (a foot or fo above earth) about the beginning of Odober , unlefle you will’attend till the Cold be pait, whichis ber. ters and yet we about Lowdon , Cut them in the moft piercing Seajons, and Plant themalfo till Caxdlemaf, which thofe who do not obferve, we Judge ill Husbands, as Llearn from a very Expe- rienc'd Basket-maker 5 and in the decreafe, for the benefit of the Workman, though not altogether for that of the Stock, and fucceeding Shoot : When they are ct, make them up into buzdles,and give them fhelter 5 but fuch as are for White-work( as they callit ) being thus fagotted, and made up in Bolts, as the tearm is, fevering each fort by them(elves, fhould be fet in water, the ends dipped 5 but for black and wnpeel'd preferv’d under Covert only, orinfome Vault or Cellar, to keep them frofbs{prinkling them now and thenin’ exceflive hot Weather : The peelings of the formerare for the ufe of the Gard’xer,and Cooper,or rather the/plicings. 19. Wehave in England thefe three vulgar forts; one of little worth, being brittle, and very much refembling the fore-mention'd Sally, with reddifh twigs, and more greenifh, and rounder Leaves : Another kind there is, call’d Perch, of limber and green twigs, having a very {lender leaf; the third fort is totally like the fecond, onely the twigs are not altogether fo green, but yeHowifh, and near the Popinjay : This is the verybef for Uje, tough, and hardy. But the moft ufual names by which Basket makers call them about Lomdon,and whichareall of different /pecies therefore to be Plantedfeparately , are, the hard Gelfter , the Horfe Gelffer , Whyning, or fhrivell’d Geliter, the Black Gelfter, in which Suffalk abounds. Then followthe Golffowes , the Hard and the Soft Golftom (brittle, and worft of all the Go'ffones) the fharp, and flender top’d yellow Golfton 5 the fine Golftox : Then is there ghe Tellow to fet them fo deep as tofent it, and at three, or four foot diftance. 21. The Seafox for Planting is January, and all February, though fomenottill mid-February, at two foot {quare; but Cattel being exceflively liquorifh of their /eaves and tender buds,fome talk of a graffing them out of reach upon Sallys, and by this, to advancetheir {prouting ; but as the werk, would confume time, fo have I never feen it fucceed, 22, Some doalfo Plant Oziers in their Eights like Quickfets , thick, and (neer the water ) keepthem not more than half a foot above ground ; but then they mutt be diligently cleans‘d from Mofs, Slab, and Ouze, and frequently prun'd (efpecially the {maller{pires) to form fingle fhoots 5 at leaft, that few, or none grow double : Thefe, they head every fecond year about September, the Autum zal cuttings being beft for ufe : But generally 23. You may cut VVithiesy Sallys, and VVillows , at any mild and gentle feafox between /eaf and leaf, even in WVinter 5 but the moft congruous time both to Plant, and to cut them is Crefcente Lund Vere, circa calendas Martias; that is, about the new AZcon, and firft open weather of the early Spring, 24. Itis in France, upon the Loire, where thefe Eights (as we call them ) and Plantations of Ozéers and VVithies are perfectly underftood; and both there , and in divers:other Countries beyond Seas, they raife them of the Seeds, contain'd in their Juli or Catkins, which they fow in Furrows or fhallow Trenches , and it {pringsup like Corz inthe blade, and come to be fo tender and delicate, that they frequently mow them with a Scyth: This we have attempted in Exgland too, even in the place whereI live, but the obftinate, and unmerciful Weed did fo confound them, that it was impoflible to keep them clean withany ordinary Induftry 5 and fo they were given over : Itfeems either meeds grow not fo faft in other Countries , or that the People ( which I rather think) are more patient and laborious. The Ozier isof that marae, that |