260 THE FORESTS OF ENGLAND. 



By request, Evelyn, on April 29th, 1675, delivered 

 before the Royal Society, a lecture, or, as it is designated, 

 a philosophical discourse of earth, relating to the culture 

 and improvement of it for vegetation and the propagation 

 of plants. &c. This also is published with the Silva, and 

 in the same volume is given a treatise on cyder, and a 

 treatise on sallads, for which he considered most suitable 

 many plants which are not now generally so used. 



Silva Terra Pomona and Acetaria complete the volume. 



To many editions of Evelyn's Silva there is appended 

 a treatise on the making of cyder, by Moses Cook, who 

 published also, in 1676, a work entitled " The manner of 

 raising, opening, and improving forest and fruit trees." 



In this he exposes the folly of some ridiculous vulgar 

 errors prevalent at that time in connection with the 

 culture of plants. And after supplying information in 

 regard to different methods of propagating trees by 

 layers, cuttings, and seeds, with some sensible remarks 

 on the propriety of laying the sown seed in a position 

 similar to that which it assumes when it falls from the 

 tree he proceeds, like Evelyn, to give detailed infor- 

 mation in regard to different trees then cultivated. 



There follow strictures on planting, fencing, and pruning 

 trees ; on the diseases of trees ; the felling and the measure- 

 ment of trees ; and the laying-out of grounds. 



In 1652 was published Common Good, or the improve- 

 ment of commons, forests, and chases by enclosure, by 

 Silas Taylor, a man somewhat distinguished for his anti- 

 quarian research. Of this treatise I have met with notices ; 

 but I have failed in different efforts made by me to get a 

 sight of it ; nor have I seen anything of works on arboricul- 

 ture or forestry which may have been published in^the 

 course of the subsequent hundred years, with the exception 

 of Care's English Liberties, which contains comments on the 

 Charta de Foresta, and statistics of importance, and was 

 published in 1719. Other works there were ; but from the 



