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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft- Trees. Chap.XXXIV. willdowell; but they are the rich fat Vales 5 and flats which do beft deferve the charge of wal/s; fuchas that/pot affords ; and the Haw-thorx well plafh'd ( fingle or double) is. better, and more natural fence, than anmorterd walls, could our zedufiry arrive to the making of fuch as we have defcrib’d : _Befides, they arelaft- ing, and profitable 5 and then one might allow fufficient Bordure for a Afound of any thicknefle, which may bethefirft charge, and well fupported, and rewardedby the culture of the Land thus enclofed. 7. For Example fuppofe a man would take #2 500 Acres of good Land, let the Mounds be of the wildeft ground,as fitteft for mood : Two hedges with their Vallations, and Trenches will be requifite in allthe Round; viz, one next to the Exclofure, the other about the Thicket to fenceit from Cattle: mightbe tryed the Plantation of Stocks, in the iztervals all manner of wood-feeds fown ( after competent Plowings)) as Acorns, Maft, Fir, Pine, Nuts, @c. the firft year chafing away the Birds, becaufe of the Fér and Pixe Seeds, for reafons given: thefécond year loofning the ground, and thinning the fupernumeraries,@c, this isthe moft frugal way : Orby another Azethod, the wafte places of Fos refis and Woods ( which by through experienceis known and tried) might be perfectly clenfed ; and then allowing two orthree Plowings , well rootedfiocks befet, cut and trimm’d asis requifite; and that the Tivsber-trees may be excellent,thofe afterwards Cop/éd, and the choiceft ffocks kept fhreaded. If an Enclofure befowd , the Seeds may be ( as was direéted ) ofallthe /pecies, not forgetting the beft Pizes, Fir, Gc. whiles the yearly removal of very in- cumbrancesonely , will repay the Workmen, who fell the Quick, or referve it to ftore other Enclofures, and foften the circumjacent grounds, tothe very great improvement of what remains, 8, And how if in fuch fexcing-works, we did fometimesimitate what Quintus Curtiws, lib. 6, has Recorded of the Afardorumgens, near to the Confines of Hyrcania, whodid by the clofe Planting of Trees alone upon the Bordures, give fo ftrange a check to the Powerofthat great Conqueror Alexander 2 They were barbarows People indeed, but in this worthy our imitation ; and the Workfo handfomly, and particularly deferib’d , that I {hall not <Arbores denfe funt de induftria confite, quarum teneros adhuc ramos manu fletunt, quos intortos rurfis inferunt ter- r@: Inde, velut ex alia radice, letiores virent trunci: hos, qua natus ra fert,adolefcere non finunt : quippe aliumalii, quafi nexu conferunt: qui ubi multa fronde veftiti funt , operiunt terran, Itaque occulti ramorumvelut laquer perpetud fepe iter clandunt, Sc. The Trees (faith he) were Planted fo near and thick together of purpofe , that when the boughs were yet young and flexible, bent , and wreath'd within one another , their Tops were bowedinto the earth ( as wefabmerge our Layers) whence taking frefh roots,they fhot upnewftems, which not being permitted to growas of themfel ves A Difcourfé of Foreft-Trees. felves they would have done, they fo knit, and perplex’d one within anoth er , that vvhen they vvere clad vvith leaves, the even cover'd the ground, and enclofed the whole Count ry with akind of living net,and impenetrable hedge, as the Hiftorian continues the defcription; and this isnot unlik e what quently praéis'd in divers places of Devon; where I am told is frethe Oaks bein planted veryneer the foot ofthofe high Monnds by which they fe. parate their Lands 5 fo Root them{elves into the Baxk, that when it failsand crumbles down, the Fex/e continues {till maintain’d them with exceeding profit. Such works as thefe would become aCato, or Varro indeed, one that were Pater Patrie >» 20x fbi foli maim born for Pofterity ; but we are comm only of another mould, This, betweenthe twohedges ( of whatfoever breadth ) is fitteft for Plantation : In thefe Hedges grieve to recite it. Chap. XXXIV. —& fruges confum ere nati. g. A fair advance for {peedy growth, and noble Trees = cially for Walks and Avenues > ee be afluredly expected fate Graffing of young Oaks, and Elms with the beft of their kinds; where the goodlieft of thefe /af are growing, the ground and would be plow'd , and finely raked inthe feafon whenth e Scales fall 5 thatthe fhowres and dews faftning the Seed where the wind drives it, itmay take Root, andhaften (asit will) to afudd en Tree. efpecially, if feafonable Jhreading be appli'd, which has fometimes made them arrive to the height of Twelve foot by the firft three years, after vvhich they grovv amain. Andif fach vvere planted as xear to one another asin the Examples vve have alledg’d, it is almoftincredible, vvhata paling they vvould be to our moft expos'd Plantations, mounting up their vvooden walls to And indeedthe fhelving, and natural declivity of the the clouds: Grouz orlefle to our unkind 4fpeds, and bleak Winds, does beft dmore tothe thickning of thefe protections; andthe benefit of that,dire& foon appear, and recompence our induftryin the {moothneffe and inte- grity of the Plantations fo defended. to. That great care be hadofthe seeds vvhich vve intend to fovv has been already advifed 5 for it has been feen, that Woods of the fame age, planted in the fame foil, difcover a vifible difference in the Timber and growth; and vvherethis variety fhould happen, if not from the /éed, vvill be hard to interpret3 therefo re, let the place, foil and growth of fuch Trees from vvhence you have your Seeds, be diligently examin’d 5 and vvhynot this, as vvell as inour care ofAzimals for our breed and ftore 2 11, Asto the Form, obeythe natural fife, and fubmit to the feveral guizes; but ever declining to enclofe High wayes, and Common-Roads asmuch as poflible, Forthe reft, be pleafed to reflect on what we have already faid , to encourage the Planting of the large {preading Oak aboveall that fpecies ; the amplitude of the diftance whichtheyrequire refign’d to the care of the Verderer for grazing Cattle, Deer, &c, and for the great and mafculine beauty whicha wild Quincunx, asit were, of fuch Trees wouldprefent to youreye. 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