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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XxlV, than an huwdred years old in England : Methinks this fhould be of wonderful incitement, It was 68c years after the foundation of Rome, ere lialy had tafted a Cherry of their own , which being then brought thither out of Poxtus (asthe above-mention’d Filberts were) did afterwards travel ad ultimos Britanzos, 3. Fofephus tels us , That the Cedar in Judea was firft planted Iw Ttinerario. there by Solomon , who doubtlefs try'd many rare Experiments of thisnature ; and none more Kingly then that of Plamting to Pofterity. 1 donot {peak of thofe which grow on the Afountains of Libanus , inthe colder and Northerz tracts of Syria: But as laminform’d bythat curious Traveller, Ranwolfius, i. Since alfo confurm'd bythat Vértwofo Monfieur Afonconys , there remaining now A Difcairfé of Foret=Trees. lateral branches inits {tead to whataltitude you pleafe= but wher I {peak of Jshortzing the middle hoot , Ido Fal ees ae of it, and therefore it muft be done difcreetly , fo as it may iG over-haftily advance, till the foot thereof be perfect ly furnithed : But thereis likewife another , no lefle comméndable expedient, t ; dreffe this Tree with all the former ad vantage s; if {paring the hate altogether, you diligently cut away all the forked branches referving onely fuch as radiate dire@tly from the body , which being fhorn, and.clipt in due feafon , will render the Tree very bedutifials and though more fubje& to obeythe fhaking minds »yet the aah ral fring of it, does immediately redrefs it, without the leaft dif. not above twentyfour of thofe {tately Trees in all thofe goodly Fo- compofure; and this isa fecret worth the learning of Gard'ze rs who fubjec themfelves to the trouble offtakes and binding , which Is very Inconvenient, .Thus likewife may you form theminto Example what Time, and Negle will bring to ruine , it due, and row , and plucking upthe Supernumeraries where they come too refis,;where that mightyPrince fetfour{core thoufand Hewers at work for the Materials of one onely Temple anda Palace, ‘tis a pregnant continual care be not taken to propagate Timber, 4. Noris it any wonder if we find the whole Species of fome Trees fo totallyloft ina Convtrey , as if there had never been any fuch planted init : Be this therefore applied to Fir, Pine, and many others with us3 fince it was fo long ere Rome was acquainted with them, or indeed with anyofthe Pitch-bearers. aM) Li Chap. XXIV: 5; We had our firlt Agrtils outof Greece,and Cyprefs from Creete which was yet a meerftranger in /taly , as Pliny reports 5 and alt difficult to be raifed ; which made Cato to write more concerning the culture ofit then of any other Tree : Notwithftanding we have in this Countrey of ours 5 no lefs then three forts, which are all of them eafily propagated, and profper very well if they are rightly ordereds and therefore I fhall not omitto difclofe onefecret,as well to confute a popular Errour, as for the Inftru@tion of our Gard'zers 6. The Tradition is, That the Gpref (being a Symbolof Mor: tality, theyfhould fayof the contrary) is never to be cut for fear of krling it. This makes them to impale , and wind them aboutlike jomany Zgyptian Mummies; by which means the inward. ofthe Tree being heated , for want of Air and Refrefhment, parts ver arrives to any perfection, but is exceedingly troublefome it neand chargeable to maintain; whereas indeed ) there isnot a moreton: ile and governable Plant in nature; For the Cyprefs may be cut to the very Roots, and yet {pring afrefh: And we find was the husbandry in the Ue ofZxaria, where theyus'dthis to fell it for Copfe: Forthe Cyprefz being rais'd from the Nur, ery of tember (oyrather Adarch,) and within twoyearsSeeds fownin Sepafter scaniioe fhould at two years {tanding more, have the after {tem of the middle fhaft cut off fome hand-breadth below thejummit, thefides and fmaller {prigs fhorn intoa conique or pyramidal form, and fo kept clipp'd from 4prilto September, as oft as by this Kegiment theywill growfurnifird there is occafionand to the the moft beautiful Trees in the world, without foot ,and become binding or flake ; {till remembring to abate the middle {tem > and to bring up the cole lateral Hedges and Topiary works , or by fowing the Seeds ina fhallow fur- clofe and thick : Forin this workit fhall fuffice to leave them with- ina foot of each other ; and when they are rifen about a yard in height (which may be to the half of your Palifado) cut off their tops, as you are taught, and keep thefides c/zpp'd, that they afeend but by degrees, and thicken at the bottom as they climbe, Thus they will prefent you in half a dozen or eight years, with incomparable hedges , preferable to all others what(oever becaufe they are perpetually green.andable to refift the Winds better then any which I know , the Holy only excepted , which indeed hag no peer, 7. When I fay Winds, Tmean their fiercelt gufés , not their cold For thoughit be faid, Brazdqueillefa Cupreffis and that indeed + no frofi impeaches them (for they grow even on the Snowy tops of Ida,) yet our cruel Eafferz winds do fometimes mortally invade them whichhavebeen late clipp’d ,. feldom the untouch’d » or that were drefedin the Spring only : Theeffects of the late Atarch and April Winds (in the years 1663. and 1665. ) accompanied with cruel Froffs and cold bla/ts, for the {pace of more thentwo months night and day, did not amongft neer a thoufand Cypreffes (growing in my Gardez) killabovethree or four, which for being very fate cut tothe guick (thatis, the latter end of Odober) were raw oftheir wounds,took cold,and gangreen'd, fome few others which werea little fmitten towards the tops , might have efcapedall their blemifhes, had my Gard'xer capp'd them but witha wifp ofhay or ftraw , asin my abfence, I commanded. As for the froft of thofe Winters (then which] believe there was never known a more cruel and deadly piercing fince Exgland hada name ) it did not touch a Cyprefs of mine till it joyn’d forces with that deftruGtive Wind: Therefore for caution , clip not your ypreffes late in Autumn y and cloath them (if young) againft thefe winds ; for the Srofts they only difcolour them , but feldom, or never hurt them asby long experience I have found. i 8, If you affect to fee your Cypreft in Standard, and grow. wild R (which |