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Show A Difcourfe of Forelt- Trees. 106 Chap, XXII. lef youfind any ofthem bruifed, or much broken, therefore firch down-rightRoots as you maybeforc'd to cut off,it were fafe to fear with an hot Iroz,and prevent the danger of bleeding, to which they are obnoxious even to deftruction though unfeen and unheeded: Neither mayyou disbranch them, but with great caution,as about March,or before, or elfe in September,and then ’tis belt, to prune up the fide- branches clofe to the Tra#kcutting off all that are above a year old; if you fuffer them too long, they grow too big, and the cicatrice will be more apt to {pend the Zree in gumme5 upon which accident Ladvife you to rub over their wounds with a mix- ture of Cow-dung; the negle& of this coft me dear , fo apt are they to fpend their Gam. Some advife us to break the fhells of Pines to facilitate their delivery, andI have eflay'd it, but to my loffe; Nature does obéfetricate, and do that office of herfelf, whenit isthe proper feafon; neither does this preparation at all prevent thofe which arefo buried, whiles their hard Integuments , protect them bothfrom rotting, and the Vermine, _ 7. The domeftic Pine growsvery well with us both in Mountains and Plains , butthe Pizaffer or wilder (of which are four forts) beft for Walks, becaufe it grows tall, and proud, maintaining their Branchesat the fides, which the Pie doeslefle frequently. 8. The Fir growstalleft , being planted reafonable clofe to: gether; but fuffers nothing to thtive under them. The Péze not {0 Inhofpitable; for (by Plinies good leave ) it may be fown with any Tree, all things growing well underits shade, and excellent in Woods ; hence Claudian, The friendly Pivethe mighty Oke invites. Et comitem quercum Pinw amica trabit. 9. They both affect the cold, high, and rockie grounds, Abies iz montibus altis ; yet will grow in better, but not in over rich, and pinguid. The worft Land in Wales bears ( asI am told) large Pine, and the Fir accordingto his afpiring nature , loves alfo the Afountain more than the Valley; but & eis wantcntors Bras vm queras , Tt cannot endure the Shade, as Theophraftws obferves, de Pl, 1,4,c.1. But this is not rigidly true s for they will grow in Con/ort, till they even fhade, and darkenone another, and will alfo defcend from the Hills, and fucceedvery well, being defirous of plentiful waterings , tillthey arrive to fome competent /tatures and therefore they do not profper fo well in an over fandy, and hungry Soil, or gravel,as in the very entrails of the Rocks, which afford more drink to the Roots, that penetrate into their weanders, and winding recefles, But though theyrequirethis refre/hixg at firft, yet do they perfectly abhor all ffercorations nor will they much endure to have the earth open’d about their Roots for Ablaqueation, or be difturb’d. This is alfo to be underftood of Cyprefs. A Fir for the ‘rf? half dozen years feems to ftand, or at leaft make no confi- derable advance; but it is when throughly rooted, that it comes awaymiraculoufly. That Honourable Knight Sir Norton Kuatchbull (whofe delicious Plantation of Pines, and Firs \beheld with ’ great Chap.XXII. A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. 107 great fatisfaction ) having affur’d methata Fir-tree of his raifing , did fhootnoleffe than fixty foot in eight, in little more than twenty years, isa pregnantinftance, as of the {peedy growing of that material; {o of allthe encouragement I have alreadygiven for the morefrequent cultivating this ornamental, ufeful, and profitable Tree. 10, The Picea is another fort of Pive, and to be cultivated like it, the co/d grounds which thefe Plants moft affect, though it be hard to difcover, Yetfometimes Pitch-trees and the noxious Yew, Orthe dark Ivy will dire Symptomes fhew. ——Picta tantum,taxique nosentes ; Interdum, aut edere pandunt Veigia wigres COrg, 2a And therefore I am notfatisfied why it might not profper in fome tollerable degree in England, aswell as in Germany, Ruffia, the Colder Tras, and abundantly in France : It grows on the Alpes among the Pime,butneitherfo tall nor foupright, and produces a Gum almoft as white and firm as Frankincenfe : But it isthe Larix (another fort of Pine ) that yields the Venetian Turpentine. 11. There is alfo the Piceafter (a wilder fort) out of which the greateft {tore of Pitchis boy!'d. The Teda likewife, which is a fort abounding in Dalmatia , more unctious , and more patient of the warmer fituations, and foinflamable, thatit will flit into Cazdles, and therefore fome will by no meansadmitit tobe of a different Species, but a metamorphofis of over-grown fattinefle, to which the moft Judiciousincline. 12. The Bodies ofthefe being cut,or burnt downto the ground, will emit frequent Suckers from the Roots 5 butfo will neither the Pine nor Fir : Butthe Fir may be propagated of Layers, which I divulge , as a confiderable Secret that has been eflay’d with fuccefle. 13. Thatallthefe, efpecially the Fer, and Pine, will profper well with us is more than probable, becaufeit is a kind of Demonration that they did heretofore grow plentifully in Cumberland , Chefhire, Stafford, and Lancalbire, if the multitudes of thefe Trees to thisday foundintire , and buried under the Earth , thoughfuppos'dto have been or’ethrown and cover'd fo ever fince the univerfal Deluge, be indeed ofthis Species : That incomparable Na- turalif?, the Learned Dr. Aerrett , in his Pinax, {peaksoffeveral places of this Nation, where fubterrameous Trees are found 3 asnamely, in Cornwal, ad finem terra , in agris Flints 5 in Penbrok-fhire towards the fhore 5 where they fo abound , wt totum littws {ays the Doctor.) tanquam Sylva cedua apparet ; in Chefhire allo, aswe {aid, Cumberland, and Anglefy,and feveral of our Euro-boreal tracts, andare called Noahs.Ark, By Chatneffé in Lancafhire ( {ays Causbe den ) the low Moffie ground wasnovery longtimefince 5 carried away by an impetuous fleod, and in that place nowlies a lowirri- guous Vale , where many proftrate Trees have been digged out: Thefe Zrees were (fome think ) carried away in times palt byfome accident |
