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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap. XXI, goody ie farvlings 3 yet ftillthe place hada papain to eee by this negle@& continually fupprefsd, The in “a ous 1 ee man has Fenced in fome Acres of this, and “ all clofe ae ground; itis comein eightornine years, £0 be better Ty np the Wood offixty; and will(in time)prove mott ipct ae ber, whiles the other part fo many years es ha —_ eee oe caxfe, other no from cover; and all this Are : : Judge then by this, how our Woods cometo be fo decried 2 and five hundred Sheep iorwibers pee oy coea e Ae Hide sande five thoufand Oaks worth the fencing, And fhall men doubt to Plant, and carefull be » ( ey anh Et dabitant homines fereres atque ee a Let us therefore shat up what wehavethus laborioufly Plasted , with fome good Quick-fet hedge. Which, ; r, in every ground As SSeeoie ae From Gardens and till’d fields expell’d, yet there Onthe extreams ftands up,andclaims a fhare. Nor Mafliff-dog, not Pikeman can be found ‘A better Fence to the enclofed Ground. Suchbreed the rough and hardy Cantons rears Andinto all adjacent Landsprefer, Tough rugged Churles ; and for the Battel fit, WhoCourtsand States with Complement or Wit Omnefolumnatale eS, intrat wbique Chap.XXI. A Difcourfe of Forett-Trees, the feeds of Yew, Sloes, Phillyrea anguftifolia, and fundry others , whofe fhells are very hard about the {mall kernels ; but which wonderfullyfacilitated, by being Cas we directed ) prepar’d is in beds, and Magazines of Earth or Sand fora competent time’, and then committed to the groundbefore the fellin March, by which seafon they will be chitting, and {peedily take Root : Others bury them deepin the ground. all Winter , and fow them in Februar y: :Andthus [have been told of a Gentleman who has confiderab! yas : : Ay improv’d his Revenue, by fowing Haws only, and raifing Nurferies of Quick-fets, which hefells by the Aundred far and neer : This i a commendable indufirys any negle&ed corners of groundwill t this Plawtation. 5. But Columella has another expedientfor the raifing of our fpinetum, by rubbing the now mature Hips and Hawsinto the cre- vices of Baf-ropes, and then burying themina Trench : Whether way you attempt it, they muft (fo foon asthey peep, and as long as they require it ) be feduloufly cleans‘d of the weeds, which,if in beds for tranfplantation, had need beatthe leaft three or four Ardelio illa quidem cultis excluditur agris sole Plerumque, atque bortis s ene 70/g Atque omnes adytus fervat fi lowe “ . > Vtilior bie Cane, oe E 7 : Alpera frigor us faxifque Helvetia aapoanel peregis terras emittit in _ im frag: Estates orn i fea Pettora or icn pdr ae ala a ‘fl years by which time evenyour feedings willbe offrature fit to remove ; for Ido by no means approve of the vulgar premature Planting of Sets, as is generally us’d throughout England 3 which is to take fuch onely asare the very fvalleft, and fo to crowd them into three or four files, which are both egregious miftakes. Atque Urbes decorare valewt, fe ie Defendunt opera; nec its, gens aes ryranni, To civilize nor to inftrué pretend s Praponunt {peciofa magic, multkmque ae But with ftout faithful fervice to defend. Prafidia 5 bis certi vitamtutantur ope(que, &Ce This Tyrants knowfull well, nor more confide Conte On Guards that ferve leffe for Defence thanPride: pl. 6a ‘TheirPerfons fafe they do not judge amiffe, : And Realms committed to their Guard of Swiffe. For fo the ingenious Poet has metamorphos'd him, and Icould not ithftand him. Rt The Hei-thorne,and indeed the very beft of common hedges, is either rais'd of Seeds or Plants; but then it muft not be with defpair, becaufe fometimes you do not fee them peep the firft year 5 for the Ham, and many other Seeds, being invetted with a very hard Jmtegument, will nowand thenfuffer émprifonment two whole yearsunder the earths and impatience of this does often fruftrate the expetation of the refurred ion of divers feeds of this natures fo as we frequently dig up, and difturb the beds wherethey have been fawn,in defpair,betore they have gone their full time, which isalfo the reafon of a very popular miftake inother Seeds : Efpecially, that of the Holly, concerning which there goes a tradition; that theywill not fprout till they be pafs'd through the Aéam ofa Thrufh, whence the faying, Tardus exitinm fuum cacat ( alluding to the Vifcus made thereof, not the AZleto of Oak ) but this isan errour, as lamable toteftifie on experience 5 they come up very wellof the Berries, and with patience; for (as I affirm’d) they will /ep {ometimes two entire years intheir Graves 5 as will alfo the 6. Whereasitis found by conftant experience, that Plats as big as ones thumb, fet in the pofture, and at the diftance which we : {pake of inthe Horn:beam that is, almoft perpendicular ( not al- together, becaufe the Ratz fhould not get in twixt the Rind and wood) and fingle, or at moft not exceeding a double row, do prof- perinfinitely, and, much out-f{trip the denfeft , and clofeft ranges of ourtrifling Sets, which make but weakfhoots, and whofe roots do but hinder each other, and for being couch’d in that poftureon the fides of Banks and Fences(efpecially where the earthis not very tenacious)are bared of the mould which fhould entertain them, by that time the Rains and Storms of one Winter, have patled over them. In Holland, and Flanders ( where they have the goodlieft Hedges of this kind about the Counter-fearps of their invincible fortifications, to the great fecurity of their A¢usketiers upon occafion) they Plant them according to my defcription, and-raife Fences fo {peedily, and fo impenetrable , that our deff are notto enter into the comparifon, Yet, that I may not be wanting to direct fuch as either affect the other way , or whofe Grounds may require fome Bankof Earth, as ordinarily the verges of Coppfes, and other Inclofures do : You hall by dize caft up your fofé of about three foot broad, and about the fame depth, provided your mould hold it; beginning firft to turn the turf, upon which, be careful to lay fome ofthe beft Earth to bed your Quick in,and there Jay, or fet the Plants; two ina foot (paceis fufficient ; being diligent to procure fuchas are frefh gathered, freight, Jmooth,and well rooted ; adding now and then , at equal {paces of twenty or thirty feot, a young O 2 Oakling |