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Show A Difcourfe of Forett-Trees, Chap.XXt, down together with the/fakes, as equally as may be. Note, that in floping your Windings , ifit be too low done (as very ufually) it frequently mortifies the tops; therefore yit ought to be fo bent, as it may not impeadthe mounting of the Sap : If the plafh be ofa great, and extraordinaryage, wind it at the heather boughs all together, and cutting the Jets as dire€ted , permit it rather to hang downwards a little, than rife too forwards 5 and then twift the branchesinto the work,leaving a fet free and unconftrain’d at eve. ryyard {pace 3 befides fuch as will ferve forfiakes, abated to about five-foot-length ( which isa competentftature for an Hedge ) and fo letit ftand. One hall often find in this work , efpecially in o/d neglected Hedges, fome great Trees, or fiubs, that commonly make gaps for Cattel : Such, fhould be cut fo neer the Earth, as’till you can lay them thwart, that the top of one, mayreft on the root, or fixb of the other , as far as they extend, flopping the cavities with its boughs and branches; and thus Hedges which feem to confift but onelyof Scrubby-Trees and fiumps, may be reducd to a tollerable Fezce, We havebeenthe longer on thefe de/criptions , becaufe it is of mainimportance, and that fo few Hushand:men are perfe@ly skil'd in it. 10. The Roots of an Old Thorne is excellent both for Boxes and Combs, and is curioufly and naturally wrought: Ihave read, that they made 17bs to {ome {mall Boates or Vefels with the Whrte- Thorn, The Black.Crab rightly feafon'd and treated, is famous for Walking-fiaves, and if over-grown us'd in Atl/-work, Here we owe due Elogy to the Induftry of thathonourable Perfon myLord Afhley, who hastaught us to make fuch Enclofures of Crab-/tocks onely, planted clofe to one another, as there is nothing more impregnable and becoming ; or you may fowe Sider-kerwels ina rill, and fence it for a while witha double dry Hedge, not onely for a faddain and beautiful , but a very profitable Inclofure 5 becaufe, amoneft other benefits, they will yield you Sider-frzit in abundance: But in Devonfhire , they build two malls with their ftowes, fetting them edgeways, iwo,and then ove between 3 and foas it rifes fill the intervall or Cofer with Earth (the breadth and height as you pleafe ) and continuing the love work, and filling , and as you work beating in theflones flat to the fides, which caufes themtoftick everlaftingly : This is abfolutely the neateft , moft faving, and profitable Fescing imaginable, where jlatyffones are inany abundance; andit becomes not onely the moftfecure to the Lamds,but the beft for Catte/ to lye warme under the Wal/s ; when other Hedges, (be they never fo thick) admit of fome cold winds in Winter timethat the leaves are of ; Uponthefe Baks theyplant not onely Quick fets,but even Timber Trees which exceedinglythrive, being out ofall danger, 11. The Pyracanth, Paliurus ; and like pretiofer forts of Thorze might eafily be propagated into plenty fufficient to ftore even thefe vulgar Ves were Afen induftrious ; and then how beautiful, and {weet would the exwirors of our Fields be? for.there are none of the fpimows forubs more hardy, norfitter for our defence, Thus Chap. XXI. A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. 9? Thus might Berberies now and then be alfo inferted among our hedges, which , withthe Hips, Hams, and Corwel-berries » do well in light lands, and would rather be planted to the South than North or Weft, as ufually we obferve them. 13. Some (as we noted ) mingle their very hedges with Oaklings, Afb, and Fruit trees fown, or planted , and ‘tis a laudableim - provement 3 though others do rather recommend tous Sets of all one fort, and will not fo much as admit ofthe Black-Thorneto be mingled with the White, becaufe of their unequal. progrefs 3; and indeed, Timber-trees {et in the Hedge ( though contemporaries with it) do frequently wear it out; and therefore I fhould rather ins courage fuch Plantations to be at {ome Yards neer the Verges 5 than perpendicularly in them. 14. In Cornwall they fecure their Lands and Woods with high Mounds , and on them they plant Acorazs , whofe roots bind in the loofer mould , and fo form a double, and moft durable Fexce, incircling the Fields witha Coronet of Trees. Theydo likewile. (and that with great commendation) make hedges of our Genifta Spinoe fa, prickly Furzes , of which they have a taller fort, fuch as the farce French imploy for the fame purpofe in Bretaigne, where they are incomparable husbazds. 1s. Itistobe fowz ( whichis beft) or planted of the roots ina furrow : If fown, weeded till it be ftrong: both Tonfile, and to be diligently clip'd, which will renderit very thick , an excellent and beautiful edge : Otherwife permitted to grow at large, “twill yield very good Fagot: It is likewife admitable Covert for wilde: Sowle,and will be made to grow even in moyft, as wellas dry pla- ces: The young, andtender tops of Furzes, being alictle bruis’d, andgiven toa lean fickly Horfé, will {trangely recover and plump him. Thus, in fome places, theyfom in barren grounds (when they lay them down ) the laft crop with this,feed , and fo let them re- maintill they break them up again, and duringthat interim , reap confiderable advantage : Would you belieye (writes a worthy Correfpondent of mine) that in Herefordfhire (famous for plenty of wood ) their Thickets of Furzes ( viz. the vulgar) thould yield them more profit, then a like quantity of the beft Wheat land of England for luch is theirs, ifthis be queftion’d; the Sceze is within a mile of Hereford, and proved by azniverfary experience, in the Lands, as \take it, of a Gentleman who is now one of the Burgeffes for that City, And in Devonfbire (the feat of the beft Husbands inthe World), they fow on their worft Land ( well plow'd) the feeds of the rankeft Furzes , which in fouror five years becomes a tich Wood: no provender (as we fay) makes Horfés fo hardy , as the young tops of thefe Furzes 5 no other Wood fo thick, nor more excellent Fyvel3 and for fome purpofes alfo, yielding them a kind of Timber to their more humble buildings , and a great refugefor Fowl and other Game ; I am aflur’d , in Bretaigne ’tis fometimes fown no leffe then tmelve yards thick , fora {peedy , profitable, and impenetrable Afouad: If we imitated this hushazdry inthe yarn places |