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Show Chap.XXIX, A Diftourfe of Foreft-Trees. anv goodly Crees >? Confiver now the Caufe. sir \efiee Wood path been (poil'd with cavelefs, ungklifuil s and untimely towing ; and much allo of the great Wood, The greater Crees at the firtt rifing Habe fil'D and overiaden them: {elves with a number of watteful boughs and fuckers, which babe not onelp Dawu the fap from the boal, But alfa habe made it knotty, and themleives, ann tbe poal moflie,fo2wantof deefling ; whereas,if in the prime of growth,they bad been taken alway clofe, Chap.XXIX. A Difcourfé of Fore%-Trees. 145 Thusfar the good Azan out ofhis eight andforty years experience concerning Témber-trees: He defcends then to the Orchards 5 which becaufe it may likewife be acceptable to our induftrious Planter, 1 thus contraét. 6, Suchas ftand for Fraits fhould be parted from within twofoot (or thereabouts) ofthe earths fo high ,asto giveliberty to dre& the Root, and no higher; becaufe of exhaufting the/ap that fhould all but one top, and clean bp the bulk, the firength of all thefap ould Have goneto the buik , and fo be would habe recovered, feed his Fruit: For the boal will be firft and beft ferved and fed, being next to the root , and ofgreateft fubftance, Thefe fhould be parted into two,three , or four Arms , as your graffs yield twigss laff. his feveral Cyons : ftill {preading by equal degrees; fo as his loweft {pray be hardly without the reachi of a mans hand , and and cover’d ts knots, and have put forth a fatr.tong, and freight body, fo2 Timber pzofitable, huge great of bulk, and of infinite Ue all Timber-trees were (uch (will fome fap) how mould tae Habe crooked tyo0d fo2 Wheels, Coorbs, &c ? Anfw. Dyeffe all pou can, and there will be enough crooked fo2 thofe ules. 3 ‘apovetban this; in mott places thep grow fo thick, that neither themlelves,nio2 earth, noz any thing under 02 neer themcan theive; RO? Sun, 1102 Rain, noz Air candDa them, noz any thiugneer, 02 ulider thei, any profit oz comfort. % fee anumber of Hags, there out of one root pou fail fee thaee 02 Four ( nay moze, {uch is mens unskillful steedinefic, whe Defiring many,bave none good ) Pretty Oaks, o2 Afhesftreight and tall; becaule the rant at the fir hoot gives fapamain: Wut tf One Onelp of them might be Cuffer’d to grow, anv that well, ane Cleanlp poun'd,ali to big herp top,whata Tree fhould we have in fime? And we fee by thole roots continually, and plentitully theinging, notwithtanding (o deadly wounded, tubat a Commo. Bity fhauldarifetathe Owner, and the Commonwealth t€ oon Were cherifyed, and ozderlp Dyess. Che watte boughsclofelp , AND Shitlfullp taken away,would give us fore of Fences and Fuel; And the bulk of the Tree in time would geow of Huge length anv bignetie + Buthere (methinks) J bear an ungkilful Arborift fay, that Trees have their {eacral forms, even bp Nature ; the Pear, the Holly, the Afpe, et. grow tang in bulk, with few and tittle Ams. The Oak by nature byoad, and fuchiike. All this F grant : But grant me allo, that there is a profitable end and ule of everp Tree, from which if it decline (though by nature) pet Manby Art map (nap muft)correct it, IPow other end of Trees ¥ hever could learn, than seoe Timber, Fruit much and good, and pleafure + Ges Phyfical hinder nothing a roon fom. RMeither et any Man ever fo much as think, that it is unprofitable, much lefe unpoflible, to refozm anp Tree of what kind foevet t For (beliede me) Whavetricd it: Jean being any Tree Chegtiming betine)toanpfoym. mane fpread, and the Oak to clofe, he Pear, and Holly may be and every Arm into two, or more Branches, every Branch into his bigheff not paft two yards higher: That no twig (efpecially in the middeft) toxch his fellow; let him {pread as far as his lift without any mafter-bough, or top, equally ; and when any fall lower then his fellows (as they will with weight of Fruit) eafe him the next /pring of his fuperfluous twigs, and he will rife: When any mount abovethereft, top hith with a wip between your Singers, or with a keife: Thus reform any Cyon3 and ,as your Tree. growsinflature , and firength , fo let him rife with his tops, but flowly,and eafily efpecially in the middeft,and equally in breadth alfo 5 following him upward,with lopping his under-growth, and water-boughs, keeping the fame diftance of two yards, not above three, in any wife, betwixt the loweft and higheft twigs. 1. Thus fhall you have handfome, clear , healthful, great and lafting Trees. _ 2+ Thus will they grow fafe from Winds, yet the top {preading. 3. Thus thal] they bear much Frait 5 I dare fay , one as much as five of your common Trees, all his branches loaden. 4, Thus fhall your Boal being low , defratid the branches but little of their fap. 5. Thusfhall your Trees be eafie to drefe, and as eafie to gather the Frait from, without bruifing the Gons, Exc. 6. The fitteft time of the 2/0n for the Pruningis (as of Graffing) when the fap isready to ftir (not proudly ftirring) and fo to cover the wounds and here, for the time of day, wemay take Co/umela, Fronden medio die arborator ne cedito. 1,11. Old Trees would be prun’d before young Plants - And zote,that wherefoever you take any thing away,the /ep the next Summer will be putting 5 be fure therefore when he puts to bud in any unfit place, you rab it offwith your finger : Thus begin timely with your Trees, and you may bring them to whatform you pleafe. If you defire any Tree fhould be taller, let him break, or divide higher: This for young Trees: The old are reformed bycuring of their difeafes , of which we have already difcours'd, Thereis this only to be confider'd 5in referenceto Forefters, out of what he has {poken concerning Freittrees ; (that ashas been touch'd.) where Trees are planted for fhadow, |
