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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap. XXII. Chap. XXII. A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees; ant them they ase of two , or three years growth , you may tran/pl they t, goodroo gotten have they when where you pleafe; and four firft or three, forthe not but ; fheots ious prodig will make or bar- were an expeditious procefe for great Plantations; unle& you would rather fet the Pize asthey do Pea/é; but at wider diftances, that t3 ten Gravel , and poor ground , fo it be not over fandy andligh upa but before fowing (Imean here for large defignes ) turn it riddle Earth upon them; In five or fix weeks they are (of all other Trees) the moft obnoxious to mifcarry without this caution; and therefore it were much better (where the Nuts might be commodiouflyfet , and defended) never to rémove thematall, it gives this Tree fo confiderable a check, The which knead about the root as you do Afelons out of the Hot-bed, many miles, fafely t befen may clofe tothem like an Egg: Thusthey would which cut, ffe muchle ; d bruife be r neithe muft top the but ‘ oe f dwarfe it for ever. ked Earth, in convenient and fitholes, fo foon as the thaw is univerfal: Some commiend the ftrewing a few Oats at the bottom of the years comparatively, They will grow both in moyft, diftance, and foot deep, fowing or fetting your Seeds an handthey will peep: , and cut the clod out When you tranjplant, water them well before 3. The beft time to tranfplant, were in the beginning of April; when there is occafion of removal, they might be taken up with earth and all, I {ay, taken up, and ‘not remov'd by Evulfions becaule fafeft courfe of all; were to fet the Nuts in anEarthen-pot and in frofty weather , fhewing it alittle to the fre’, the intire Clod will come out with them , whichare to be referved , and {ét in the #2foffes or pits in which you tranfpfant the naked roots,for a great pro- they would thrive mainly ina {tiff hungry Clay butby no means motement of their taking 3 and that it will cawfe them to fhoote more in ove year than in three ; but to this I have already fpoken. betoo {tiff and untractable 5 with alittle fand , removing with as much Earth about the roots as is pofible, though the Fir will better endure a naked tran{plantation., thanthe Pime: You maylikewife fowin fuchearth about February , they will make a fhoot the veryfirfiyear of andych ; next anhandful , the third year three foot, and thence forward, above a yard annually. A Northern Gen- the Territory of Alzey (a Country in Germany , where they were in over light,or rich Say/e : Fill the holes therefore with fuch barren Earth , if your ground be improperofit felfs and if the Clay tleman , who has oblig’d me with this procefé upon his great Expe- rience, aflures me , that there are trees planted in Northumberland, which are in few years grown to the magnitude of Ship-mafts 5 and from all has been fayd, deduces thefe Jeconragements; 1. The fae cility oftheir propagation, 2, The nature of their growth, which is to affect places where nothing elfe will thrive: 3. Their #xiformty and beauty,,:4. Their perpetual Verdure; 5. Their fmeetnefe, 6. Their Fruitfulnefs,aflordingfeed,gum,fuel, and timber of all other woods the moft ufeful and eafy to work,&c,All which highly recommend it as anexcellent Jvprovement of Husbandry,fit to be enjoyn’d by fome folemn Edjf to the Inhabitants of this our Ifand, that we may have mafts,and thofe other materials of our own growth, 4. The Pine (of which are reckon'd no lefie then tefeveral fogts preferring the Domejtic or Sative forthe fuller growth) is likewife of both Sexes , whereof the Aéale growing lower, hathits wood more knotty and rude than the Female, They would be gather’d in Jue, before they gape, yet having hung two years ( for there willbe always fome ripe, and fome greez on the fame Tree) preferve them in their wwts, in Sand , as you treat Akoras,&c. ‘till the feafoninvite, and then et, or fow them in Ground whichis cultivated like the Fir , inmoft refpe@ts; only you may bury the Nuts a little deeper. By a friend of mine they were rolled in a fine compoft made of Sheeps-dung, and {catter'd in February,and this way neverfail'd Fir and Pine; they came tobe above Inch highby May and a Spanifh Author tels us, that macerated five days in a childs urine , and three days in water, is of wonderful effec 5 This were 5. I am affur'd (by a perfon moft worthy of credit ) that in miferablydiftreffed for Wood, which they had fo deftroy’d as that they were reduced tomake ufe of Straw for their beft Fuel) a very large Trad being newly plowed, but the Warrs furprizing them, not fuffer'd tofow, there fprung up the next year'a whole Foreft of Pinxe-trees , of which fort of Wood there was Hone at all within lefle then fourfcore miles ; fo as tis verily conjectur'd by fome, they might be wafted thither fromthe Country of Weftra- fia, whichis the neereft part to that wherethey grow : If this be true, weare no more to wonder , how, when our Oak-woods aré grubb’d up, Beech, and Trees of other kinds, have frequently fucceeded them: What fome impetuous Winds have done in this nature, [could produce inftances almoft wiraculows ; 1 thall fay nothing of the opinion of our Mafter Varro , and the learned Theophraftws , who were both of a faith, that the /éeds of Plants drop'd out of the 4ér: Plinyinhis 16. Book, Chap, 33. upon difcourfe of the Cretaz Cyprefs , attributes much to the izdoles and nature of the foil, virtue of the Climate, and Impreffions of the Airs And indeedit is very ftrange, what is affirm’d ofthat Pitchy-raiz, reported to have fallen about Cyrene, the year 430, U. C, after which,in a fhort time,fprung up a whole moodof the Trees ofLaférpitium , producing'a precious Gam not muchinferiour to Bexzoin, if at leaft the /fory be warrantable: But ofthefe Aerial irradiations, various coxceptions , and equivocal productions without feed, cc, upon another occafion, if life and leifure permit me to finifh what has been long under the hand and file , to gratifie our Horticulto- res; this prefent Treatife being but animperfect 4mb of that more ample Work, 6, Intranfplanting of thefe Coniferous Trees, which are generally Refinaceous, viz, Fir,Pine,L arix,Cedar,and which havebut thinand fingle Roots,you muft never diminifh their beads, nor be at all bufie with their roots,which pierce deep, andis all their foundation, ua. leis |