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hardy for some uses as the slower, which makes stocks 

 for gard'ners spades ; but the other are proper for 

 rakes, pikes, mops, ?c. Sallow-coal is the soonest 

 consum'd ; but of all others, the most easie and ac- 

 commodate for painters scribbets, to design their work, 

 and first sketches on paper with, G?c. as being fine, 

 and apt to slit into pencils. 



1 6. To conclude, there is a way of grafting a 

 sallow-trunchion ; take it of two foot and half long, 

 as big as your wrist ; grafF at both ends a fig, and 

 mulberry-cyon of a foot long, and so, without claying, 

 set the stock so far into the ground, as the plant may 

 be three or four inches above the earth : This (some 

 affirm) will thrive exceedingly the first year, and in 

 three, be fit to transplant. The season for this curio- 

 sity is February. Of the sallow (as of the lime-tree) 

 is made the shooe-maker's carving or cutting-board, as 

 best to preserve the edge of their knives, for its equal 

 softness every way. 



17. Oziers, or the aquatick and lesser salix, are of 

 innumerable kinds, commonly distinguish'd from sal- 

 lows, as sallows are from withies ; being so much 

 smaller than the sallow, and shorter liv'd, and requir- 

 ing more constant moisture, yet would be planted in 

 rather a dryish ground, than over moist and spewing, 

 which we frequently cut trenches to avert. It like- 

 wise yields more limber and flexible twigs for baskets, 

 flaskets, hampers, cages, lattices, cradles, the bodies of 

 coaches and wagons, for which 'tis of excellent use, 

 light, durable, and neat, as it may be wrought and 

 cover'd: for chairs, hurdles, stays, bands, the stronger 

 for being contus'd and wreathed, &c. likewise for 

 fish wairs, and to support the banks of impetuous 

 rivers : In fine, for all wicker and twiggy works : 



