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ash, nuts, all the glandiferous seeds, mast, and key- 

 bearing kinds, so as they lie not too thick, and then 

 cover them very well with a rake, or fine-tooth 'd 

 harrow, as they do for pease : Or, to be more 

 accurate, you may set them as they do beans 

 (especially, the nuts and acorns) and that every 

 species by themselves, for the Roboraria, Glandaria^ 

 Ulmaria, Gfc., which is the better way : This is to 

 be done at the latter end of October, for the autumnal 

 sowing ; and in the lighter ground about February 

 for the vernal : For other seminations in general ; 

 some divide the spring in three parts ; the beginning, 

 middle, and end ; and the like of the autumn both 

 for sowing and planting, and accordingly prepare for 

 the work such nursery furniture, as seems most 

 agreeable to the season. 



1 Then see your hopeful grove with acorns sown, 

 But e're your seed into the field be thrown, 

 With crooked plough first let the lusty swain 

 Break-up, and stubborn clods with harrow plain. 

 Then, when the stemm appears, to make it bare 

 And lighten the hard earth with hough, prepare. 

 Hough in the spring : nor frequent culture fail, 

 Lest noxious weeds o're the young wood prevail : 

 To barren ground with toyl large manure add, 

 Good-husbandry will force a ground that's bad. 



Proinde nemus sparsa cures de glande parandum : 



Sed tamen ante tuo mandes quatn semina campo ; 



Ipse tibi duro robustus vomere fossor 



Orane solum subigat late, explanetque subactum. 



Cumque novus fisso primum de genuine ramus 



Findit humum, rursus ferro versanda bicorni 



Consita vere novo tellus, cultuque frequenti 



Exercenda, herbae circum ne forte nocentes 



Proveniant, germenque ipsum radicibus urant. 



Nee cultu campum cunctantem urgere frequenti, 



Et saturare fimo pudeat, si forte resistat 



Culturae : nam tristis humus superanda colendo est. Rafinus, 1. 2. 



