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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XXV; Leaf, whichis not fo prickly; and inthe bark , which is frequently, four or fiveinchesthick : The manner of decortication where, ofis once in two, or three years to ftrip itina dry feafon 5 otherwife, the intercutaneous #oifiure indangers the Tree 5 when the bark is off, they unwarpit before the fire , and prefle it ever, and that with weights upon the convex part, and fo it continues being cold, 2. The ufesof Cork is well known amongft us both at Sea and Landfor its refifting both Water and Air : The Fifher-men who deal in Nets, and all who deal with Liquors cannot be without it : Antient Perfons preferit before Leather for the oles of their Shooes, being light, dry, and refifting moifture, whence the Germans name it Pantoffel-holts ( Slipper-wood ) perhaps from the Greek Tar]és & ¢xG-,for 1 find it firft applied to that purpofe by the Grecian Ladies, whence they were call'd light-footed ; 1 know not whetherthe Epzthite doftill belong to that Sex; but from them its likely the Venetian Dames tookit up for their menftrous Chop- pines affecting, or ufurping an artificial eminency above Afen , which Nature has denied them. OF one ofthe forts of Cork are made pretty Cxps,and other Veféls,efteem'd good to drink out of for Heétical perfons : The Zgyptians made their Coffins of it, which being lin’d with a refizows compofition, preferv’d their Dead incorrupt : Fhe poor People in Spaiz lay broad Planks of it by their Beds-fide, to tread on (as great Perfons and Perfian Carpets ) todefend them from the floor, ufe Turkie and fome: timestheyline, or Wainjcot the Walls , and infide of their Houfes built of Stone , with this Bark, which renders them very warm, and correéts the moiflure of the Air : Alf they employ it for Bee- Hives, and to double the infides of their Contemplores 5 and leather Cafes wherein they put Fla/quera’s with snow to refrigerate their Wine. This Tree has beneath the Cortex or Cork , two other Coats, or Libri 5 of which oneis reddifh > Which they {trip from the bole when ’tis fell’d onely 5 and this bears good price with the Jammer: The reft of the woods very goodfiring, and applicable to manyother ufes of Building, Palifade work, @+c. 3. Lex major glandiferaor great Scarlet Oak , thrives manifettly with us 5 witnefle His Majefties Privy Garden at Wbite-Hall, where onceflourifh'd a goodly Tree'of more than Sourfcore years growth, though there be now buta fickly Impe of it _ 4+ By what I have touch’d in the Chapter remaining, of the Elws,concerning the peregrination of that Tree into Spain vie’s time there were none, and wherenow ( where evenin Pi they are in great abundance ) whythould we not more generally endeavour to propae gate the Zexamongtt us 3 [mean, that Buccifera, which the Spaniards call the Enxina, and-of which they fitable Plantations ?- Theyare an hardy have fuch Woeds, and profort of Tree, and familie arly raisd from the Acorn, if we could have them found and well put up in Earth or Sand. > asl have found by 5+ The woodofthefe Tex's is ferviceable experience. for many wes, as flocks of Chap. XXV; A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees, of Tools, Mallet-heads, Atall ballsChairs, Axeltrees, Wedges, Beetles, Pins,andaboveall for Palifadoes usd in Fortifications. Befidesyit affords fo good fuel, that it fupplies all Spaev almoft with the beft and moftlafting of Charcoales, in vat abun dance, Of the fooft kind 123 is made the Paynten Lac extracted from the berries 5 to {peak nothing of that noble Confection Alkermes : The Acorns of the firft yield excellent nourifhm ent for Ruftics, {weet, and little, ifat all,inferiour to the Che/é nut, and this, and not the Fagus, was doubtlefle the true Ejculas of the Antients > the Food of the Go/den Age. The wood ofthe Exzina when old siscurioufly chazbletted, and embroidered with Natural vermi culations as if it were painted. 6. The Alaternus, which we have lately recei v'd from the hot- dlaternns teft parts of Lazguedoc (and that is equal with the heat of almoft any Countrey in Europe) thrives with us in England , as if it were an Indigene and Natural, 7+ Ihave had the honourto bethe firft who broug htit into 2yé and reputation in this Kingdoms for the moft beautiful, and ufeful of Hedges , and Verdurein the vvorld (the Jwiftneffé of thegrowth confider’d ) and propagated it from Cornwall even to Cumberland : The feed grovvs ripe wvith us in Angaf 5 and the ing blofomes, aflord an early, and mervellous hony-breathrelief to the Bees, 8. All the Phillyrea’s are yet more hardy ; vvhic vvonderto find the Azguftifolia planted in Cafes, h makes me Phillyred. fet intothe Stoves, amongtt the Oranges and Lemm and fo charily ons vvhen by long experience, L have found it equal our Holly in faffering the extreameft rigours of our cruclleft Frofs, and Winds, vvhich Is doubtlefle ( of all our Englifh Trees) the moft infenfible and ftout, 9. They are (both Alaternus and this ) raifed (though thofe of the Philyrea vvill be long under of the seeds ground _) and being tranfplanted for Ejpalier hedges , or Stand ards, are to be govern’d by the Shears, as oftas there is occafion : wus vvill be up in one Afonth after it is fovvn : Plant The Alaterit out at tvvo years grovvth, and clip it after rain inthe Spring, beforeit grovvs fticky,and wvhiles the fhoots are tender; thus vvill it form an hedge ¢ though planted but in fingle rows, and at two foot diftance ) ofa yard in thicknefle, twenty foot high (if you defireit) and farnifrd to the bottom : Butfor an hedge of this altitude, it would re. quire the friendthip of fome Wall,or a Frame of lufty Poles, to fecure againft the Winds one of the moft delicious object s But if we could haveftore of the Phillyrea folio levite in nature : r ferrato (of which I haverais'd fome very fine Plants from the Seeds) we might fear no weather, and the verdureis incomparable. 10. The Culture of the Granade ( of which are three forts ) doeslittle differ from that of the Alaternus > of which we might raife confiderable Hedges on all our Southern Afpects : They have fuppo rted that moft unmerciful Winterin Sixty three, ae artifice ; Granade |