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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XXXIV, To make room,asthey grow larger, grubbing up every middle Tree, at 9/, per Tree, 19800 Trees amount to 99000 l. and the remaining 20601 at 220 yearsgrowth, at but 8 /. per Tree, comes to 164808 /. befides the inferiour Crop of Meadow,or Corn in all this time, fown in the diftances; reckoning for three years produét goooo Bufhels at 5s. per Bufbel, which will amount to 225001, befides the straw, Chaff, @xc. which at 5 s.a load, and 3d, a Bufh, Chaff, comesto 20254, So as the total Improvement ( befides the 217 years emolument arifing from the Cor, Cattel, @*c.)) amounts Chap. XXXIV, A Difcourfe of Forett-Trees, 25. Nowlet us calculate a little at adventure, and whatis bothfasfble, and very poffible; and we thall much withia find chatfour! Fruit-trees in each Acre throughout England, the prod uct fold but atfix pence the Bufhel (but where do we now buy themfo cheap? ) will be wortha Adllion yearly : What then may judge of Timber, admit bur at the growth of four we reafonably pence per ee yearly ( which isthe loweft that can be eftimated ) It amountin to near two Millions > if (as’tis fuppos’d ) there may be five ong and twenty Millions of /quare Acres in the Kingdom (befides Fens High-ways, Rivers, Gc. not counted ) and without recko to 288333. And there Trees (as well they may) coming tobe worth for Timber, 20 1. an Oak; the 20601 Trees amount to 412020 / and the total Improvement of the 1000 Acres (the Corn Profits not com- ning im the Afaf?, orloppings, which whofoever hall calcula te from the an- land (and whichhis AZajefly might eafily compafle, even for his own Proportion, and for Pofferity ) 20000 Acres thus Planted , at cx fiom , Plant fo manyOaks about his Farm, as mayfuftice to feed his Swine : Toeffec this they have been {o caretul, that when of puted) afcendsto 675833 /. So as admit there were in all Exge two foot diameter (and as may be prefum'd thirty foot high,which in 150 years, they might well arrive to _) they would be worth 13516660 /. animmenfeand ftupendious Summe, and an everlatting fupplyfor all the U/es both of Sea and Land - But it is to Captain Smith's laborious Works (to which I with all encourages ment ) that we have the total Charge of this noble Undertaking from the firlt Sewination , totheir maturity; by whichit will be eafie to compute what the Gains will be for any greater or/efer quantity. But nowtoreturn to the Place of Planting (from whence this Calculation has more than little diverted ) we fhall find, as we faid,that evenin the moft craggie, uneven, cold and expofed places, not fit for Arable, as in Bifcay, Gc, and in our very Peaks of Derbyfhire, and other Rockze places, Afhes grow about every Village, and wefind that Oak, Beech, Elm, and Afh, will profper in the moft flinty Soils. And itis truly from thefe Indications, more than from any other whatfoever, that a broken, and decaying Farmer,is tobe diftinguifh’d from a fubftantial Free-holder, the veryTrees {peaking the conditions of the Ataffer : Let notthenthe Royal Patrimony beara Bankrupts reproach : Butto defcendyet lower ; a4. Hadevery Acre but three, or four Trees, and as many of Fruit init as would a little adorn the Hedge-rows, the Improvement would be offair advantage in a few years; for itis a fhame that Turnip-planter s,fhould demolifh,and undo hedge rows neer London, where the Afounds and Fences are {tripp'd naked, to give Suz toa few miferable Roots, which would thrive altogetheras well under them, being skilfully praz'dand lopp'd : Our Gard’zers will not believe me, but [knowit to be true, though Pliny had not af- firm’dit : Asfor Elws (faith he ) their Shade is fo gentle and benigne, that it nourifhes whatfoever grows under ic : And (lib 17. ¢. 22.) it is his opinion of all other Trees ( very few excepted ) provided their Branches be par’d away, whichbeing difcreetly done, improves the Timber as we have alreadyfhew'd. 25. Now nual Revenue, the Maft onely of Weftphalia, a {mall and wretched Countrey im Germany, doesyield to that Prince, will concl ude to be nodefpicable Improvement, 26. Inthis poorTerritory , every Farmer does byanti ent Jate years, the. 4rmies infelted the poor Countrey, both Imperia and Proteftants; the onely Bifhoprick of Munfler was able lifts to ay One kundred thonfand Crowns per menfem ( which amounts of a money to about 25000/. flerling) befides the ordinary entert ainment of their own Prince and private families, This being credible tobe practis’d in fo extream "barren a Countrey [thou ixfit to mention, either to encourage,or reproach us : Genera ght l Melander was wont to fay, The good Hufbandry of their Amceffors hadleft them this Stock pro facra Anchord 5 confidering how the People were afterward reduc'd tolive even on their Trees > when the Souldiers had devour'd their Hogs; redeeming themfelves from great extreamities, by the Timber which they were at laft compelJed tocut down, and which, had it continu’d, would have prov’ d the utter defolation of that whole Coumtrey, I have this Inftance from my moft worthy, and honourable Friend Sit Wiliam Curtis (his Aajeflies Refident in Germany) who receiv’d this particular from the mouth of Azselander himfelf : Inlike manner, the Prin- ces, and Freedoms of Hefe, Saxon » Thuringia, and divers other places there, make vaft incomes of their Foreft-fruit (befid es the Timber) for Swine onely, [fay then, whofoever {hall duly con- fider th#, will find Planting of Wood tobe no contemptib le Addi- tion befides the Paffure much improvd, the cooling offat, and heavy Cattel, keeping them frominjurious motions,difturbance and running as they do in Summerto find fhelter fromthe heat and vexationofflyes. : 27. But } have done, andit is nowtime for us to get out of the Wood, and to recommendthis, and all that we have propos'd, to His moft Sacred Majefty, the Honourable Parliament and to the Princ ipal Officers, and Commilfioners of the Royal Navy5 that where fuch Improvements may be made, it be Jfpeedily , and vigoroufly profecuted ; and where any defects appear, they may be duly re- formed, G g 2 a8, And |