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Show 140 A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XXVIIE. . When youefpy a cluffer'of Plants growing asit were all in a cake it ‘hall fatice ieee preferve the faireft Sapling , cute ting allthereft away. Andif it chance to be a Che/-nut, Service, or like profitable Yree, clear it from the droppings and incumbrancesof other Trees, that it may thrive the better : Then as you pafle along, prune, and trim up all the young Wavers, cover- Chap. XXIX. A Difcourfe of Forett-Trees; means to fave a world of Fuel, and in diver s places young Tizber and Copfe-wood, which is yearly {pent for Poles; ef;pecially in Countries where Woodis very precious, Note, that the Wood-lazd-meafure by Statu te, is computed after eighteen foot the Perch, ing fuch Reotsas lye bare and expos’d, with frefh mould, 7. Cut not above half a foot trom the Ground, and that to the South flopewile 5 tripping upfuchas you {pare from their extravagant branches, water-boughs,éc. that hinder the growth of others: Alwayes remembring (before you fo muchas enter upon this work) to preferve fufficient Pla/hpole about the verge and bounds of the Copfe for fences and fecurity of what you leave; and forthis fomething leffe than a Rod may fuffice : Then raking your Wood clear of Spray, Chips, and all zncuzsbrances, {hut it up from the Catels the longer the better. 8. By the Statute Men were bound to enclofe Cop/es after Fel- ling, of or underfourteen years growth for four years : Thofe above fourteen years prowth to be fixteen years Ewclos'd; And for Woodsin common, a fourth part to be fhut up; and at Felling the like proportion of great Trees to be left; and {even years En= clos'd : This wasenlarg’d by 13 Eliz. Your elder Under-woods may be grazd about Fuly : Butfora general Rule, newly-weaned Calves are the leaft noxious to newly-cut Spring-moods, where there is abundance of Gra/é; and fome fay, Colts of a year old; but then the Calves muft be driven out at Afay at fartheft, though the Colts be permitted to {tay awhile longer: Butofthis every mans experience will direct him; and furely the later you admit Beaffs to graze, the better. For the Meafure of Fuel thefe proportions were to be obferv'd. ‘ 9. Statutable Bilet thould hold three foot in length, and fever inch and half compafes ten or fourteex as they are counted forone, smo, orthree, &c, A Stack of Wood which is the boughs and offal of the Trees to be converted to Char-coal) is four yards longthree foot and half high (in fomeplaces but a yard) and asmuch over : {nother placesthe Cord is four foot in height, and fourfoot over; or (to {peak more Geometrically)a Solid made up of three dimenfioxs, four foothigh, four foot broad, and eight foot long 5 the content 28 cubique feet. Fagots ought to be full yard in lexgth , and #wofoot in circumference, made round, and not flat 5 for fo they contain leffe Fwel, though equal in the bulk appearing, But of thefe particulars when we come to {peak exprefly of Fuel, 10. Inthe mean timeit were tobe wifh’d, that forte approvd Experiments were feduloufly try’d_ (with the adviceof skillful and ingenious Phyficians ) for the making of Beer without Hopps's a8 poflibly with the white Azarrubine (a Plant of fingular virtue ) or with dry’d Heath-tops ( viz. that fort which bears no berries) of the like far more wholefom, andlefle bitter than either, Tamarish, Carduws, or Broow, which divers have eflay'd; it might prove a means CHAP. XxIx, Of Pruning. z: Dn call all purgation of Trees from what is fuperfluous, The Aucients found fuch benefit in Pruning,that they feigned a Goddefe prefided overit, as Arnobins tells us « And in truth, it isin the difcreet performanceofthis work, that the improvementof our Témber and Woods does as much confif t as in any thing whatfoever, A skillful Planter fhould there fore be early at this Work : praning: Shallold Gratins give you Reafon and Direion 2 Andhis incomparable zuterpreter thus in Englifh, Twigs of themfelvesneverrife firait and high, And Under-woods are bow’das firft they fhoot, Thenprune the Boughs ; and Suckers from the root Difcharge. The leavy wood fond pity tires, After, when withtall rods the Tree afpires, And the roundftaves to Heaven advancetheir twigs, Pluck all the buds, and ftrip off all the fprigs 5 Thefeiffues vent what moilture ftill abound ; And the veins unimploy’d grow hard and found. Wafe, Nunquam {ponte faa proce?us ad aera termes Exiit, inque ip(a curvamtur Sirpegenifte. Ergo age luxuriam primo fatu{que wocenteis Detrahe + frondofasgravat indulgentia flvae PoS wbi procerisgenero/a Hirpibus arbor Se dedevit,tereté/queoe ad fidera virga, Stringe noras circum, ©gemmanteis exige wer{tts Hés, fi quis vitinm nociturws fuffcit humor, Vifceribus fluit, & venas duvabit inertes, Gra. fal, Cynzxget, a, For ‘tisa mifery to fee how our fairet Trees are defac’d, and mangl'd by unskilful Wood-men, and mifchievous Bordurers, who go alwayes arm‘d with fhort Hand-bills, hacking and chopping off all that comesin their way ; by which our Trees are made full of knots, boils, cankers, and deform'd bunches, to their utter deftruction: Good Husbands {hould be afham’d ofit ; though have no Vood-man pretend to be without all his necefl I would ary Furni« ture, whenhe goes about this work; which I (once for all) teckon tobe the Hand-bill, Hatchet, Hook , Hand-faw, an excellent Pruning-Kzife, broad Chizel and Mallet, a\l made of the beft freet and kept tharp; And thusheis providedfor greater, or more gentle Execut ions, Purgations, Recifions , and Coerfions 5 and it is of main concern, thatthe proper andeffe@tual Too! be applie d toevery work; fince heavy and rude Infiruments do but mangle and bruife tender Plants 3 and if they be too {mall, they cannot makec leer and even work upon great arms and branches + Thé Knife is for U Twigs |
