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most usual names by which basket-makers call them 

 about London, and which are all of different species 

 (therefore to be planted separately) are, the hard- 

 gelster, the horse-gelster, whyning or shriveU'd-gels- 

 ter, the black-gelster, in which Suffolk abounds. 

 Then follow the golstones, the hard and the soft 

 golstone, (brittle, and worst of all the golstones) the 

 sharp and slender top'd yellow-golstone ; the fine- 

 golstone : Then is there the yellow ozier, the green 

 ozier, the snake, or speckled ozier, swallow-tayl, and 

 the Spaniard : To these we may add (amongst the 

 number of oziers, for they are both govern'd and us'd 

 alike) the Flanders-willow, which will arrive to be a 

 large tree, as big as one's middle, the oftner cut, the 

 better : With these our coopers, tie their hoops to 

 keep them bent. Lastly, the white-sallow ; which 

 being of a year or two growth, is us'd for green-work ; 

 and if of the toughest sort, to make quarter-can-hoops, 

 of which our seamen provide great quantities, &c. 



20. These choicer sorts of oziers, which are ever 

 the smallest, also the golden-yellow, and white, which 

 is preferr'd for propagation, and to breed of, should 

 be planted of slips of two or three years growth, a 

 foot deep, and half a yard length, in moorish grounds, 

 or banks, or else in furrows ; so that (as some direct) 

 the roots may frequently reach the water ; for flumi- 



nibus salices though we commonly find it rots 



them, and therefore never chuse to set them so deep 

 as to scent it, and at three or four foot distance. 



2 1 . The season for planting is January, and all Feb- 

 ruary, though some not till Mid-February, at two foot 

 square ; but cattle being excessively liquorish of their 

 leaves and tender buds, some talk of a graffing them 

 out of reach upon sallows, and by this, to advance 



