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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XXI. comein time to Elme-fucker 4/h or the like, which will j you will needs If : er Timb sorte star and good c that, upon lefle : cra multiply your rowes, a foot or fomewhat e offets, . _ to point rank her apot t more congefted mould , plan , whic — firft the jut in the middle of the vacnities of s but if you wou ortifie Fo/fe e fingl enough: Thisis but for the fide, of the fame depth, it to the purpofe , do.as much on the other cap the top in Pyramis all, height , and plantings and thenJaft of h: Some, if the would be Ditc the of om bott or t, worf the with very cre? of the wound, ,or Edge the on two or good, plant a row drys alfo manyfettheir which ought to be little flatned : Here plant ation, and I cannot runde heir fhadet and , nd defe Hedge , to , that themain work this hadin be to s reproveit: But greatcarei a declivity, ain fudd too bank be well footed, and not made with 5 and this her weat wet and s froft after in o fallwhich is fabjectt d lyes Lan the e wher but nds; is good husbandry for moyft grou Rt ng3 which, high , and ishot and gravelly , 1 prefer the lower fenci d with takes eéte prot be may felf, the aréa it though ever with puranda dry hedge, the diftance competent, and to very good s. pofes of educating more frequent Timber amongft the rowe ed, 8. Your Hedge being yet Young , fhould be conftantly weed Chap.XXI. A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. but a Repetition, ’till he comes to theplafhing, In aGround which is more dry then wet (for watry places it abhors) plant your Quick thus: Let thefirft row of Sets be placed in'a trench of a- bout half a foot deep, eve with the top of your ditch, in fomewhat a floping, or inclining pofture: Then, Having rais'd your bavkneer a foot upon them, plant another row fo as their tops may juft peep out over the middle of the /paces ofyourfir row : Thefe cover'd again to the heightor thicknefs of the other , place a third razk oppofite to the firft, and then finifh your bank to its intended height, The diftances of theplamts would not be above onefoot 5 and thefeafoz todo the work in, may be from the entry of Febraary, tillthe end ofAtarch; or elfe in September, to the beginning of December. Whenthis isfinifh’'d, you muft guard both the top of your Bavk , and outmoft verge of your Ditch, witha fufficient dry- hedge interwoven from ffake to féake into the earth ( which commonly they do on the bank ) to fecure your Qxick from thefpoil of Cattle, And then being careful to repair fuch as decay , or do notfpring, by fappling the dead, and trimming the reft; you fhall after threeyears growth,{prinkle fome Témber-trees amongft them 5 fuch as Oak, Beech, Afb, Maple , Fruit, orthelike ; which being drawn young out of your Nurferies , may be veryeafily inferted. Cof Brambles efpecially , the great Dock, and Thiftle , &c.) ons But that which weaffirm’d to require the greateft dexterity in this work,is, the artificial plafhing of our Hedge whenitis now arriv’d to afix orfeven years head 5 though fomeftay till the tew#h or lon- y the plantation of Quick-fet- hedges , to plant a Crab-ftock aty ,ever as if ger, though fome admitnotofthis work after Michaelmas , tor Reaf ord(bire, in that lapprove not : It hasbeen the prattice of Heref ionfl twenty-foot diftance ; and this they obferve fo Relig g It: But by irin te requ Statu rous me rigo r'fo unde they had been ntages this means , they were providedin a fhort time with all adva mfor the graffing of Fruit amongft them , which does highly recoth s grow year three at Sets their cut Some try. penfe their induf even to the very ground, andfind thatin ayear or two,It will have fhot, asmuch asin fever, hadit been let alone. g. When your Hedge is now neer fix years ftature , plajh it about February or OGober 5 but this is the work of a very dextrous and <kilful Husbandman;, and for which our honeft Country-man M. Markam gives excellent directions ; only I approve not fo well of his deep cutting , if it be poflible to bendit, havingfffered in fome thing of that kind : It is almoft incredible to what perfection fome havelaid thefe Hedges , by the rural way of plafbing , better than by clipping; yet may both be ufed for ornament , as where they are planted about our Garden-fences , and fields neer the Manfion, In scotland , bytying the young Jhoots with bands of hay, they make the flems grow fo very clofe together , as that it enclofeth Rabbets in Warrens in{tead ofpales. 10. And now fince I did mentionit, and that moft I find do greatly affect the vulgar way of Quicking (that this our Difcourfe bein nothing deficient ) we willin brief give it you again after Geo. Markams defcription, becaufe it is the beft and -moft accurate, although muchrefembling our former direétion , of which it feems but In February therefore, or O@ober , with a very tharp hard- bill cut away all fuperfluous fprays and féraglers which may hinder your progrefs, and are ufelefs, Then, fearching outthe principal feems, with a keen and light Hatchet , cut them flant-wife clofe to the Ground, aboutthree quarters through , orrather,fo far onely, astill you can make them comply handfomely , whichis your beft direction , and fo layit from you /loping as you go, folding 7% the lefler branches which {pring fromthem; and everwithin five, or fix foot diftance , where you find an upright fet (cutting ofonly the top to the height of your intended hedge ) let it ftand as a ftake to fortifie your work , and to receive the twinings ofthofe branches about it. Laftly, at the ¢op ( which would be aboutfive foot above ground) take thelongeft, moft flender andflexible twigs which you referved (and being cut asthe former where need requires) bind iz the extremities ofall the reft, and thus your workisfinifh’d : This being done very clofe , and thick , makes an impregnable Hedge, in few years 5 for it may be repeated as you fee occafion; and what you fo cutaway , willhelp to make your dry-hedges for your young Plantations , or be profitable for the 0ven, and make good Baviz, For takes inthis work, Oake is to be preferr'd, though fomewill ufe Elder , or the Black Thorn droven well iz at everyyard of interval; and even your plafh'd- hedges need fome {mall thorns to be lay’d over to proteét the Spring from Cattel and Sheep, ‘till they are fomewhatfortified ; and the doubler the winding is lodg’d, the better; which fhould be beaten, and ae own |
