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comfortable refrigerium. The wood being preserved 

 dry, will dure a very long time ; but that which is 

 found wholly putrified, and reduc'd to a loamy earth 

 in the hollow trunks of superannuated trees, is, of all 

 other, the fittest to be mingled with fine mould, for 

 the raising our choicest flowers, such as anemonies, 

 ranunculus's, auriculas, and the like. 



1 What would we more ? low broom, and sallows wild, 

 Or feed the flock, or shepherds shade, or field 

 Hedges about, or do us honey yield. 



30. Now by all these plantations of the aquatick 

 trees, it is evident, the lords of moorish commons, 

 and unprofitable wasts, may learn some improvement, 

 and the neighbour bees be gratified ; and many tools 

 of husbandry become much cheaper. I conclude 

 with the learned Stephanus's note upon these kind of 

 trees, after he has enumerated the universal benefit of 

 the salictum : nullius enim tutior reditus, minorisve im- 

 pendii, aut tempestatis securior. 



CHAPTER XX. 



Of Fences, Quick-sets, &c. 



i. Our main plantation is now finish'd, and our 

 forest adorned with a just variety : But what is yet 

 all this labour, but loss of time, and irreparable ex- 

 pence, unless our young, and (as yet) tender plants 



1 Quid majora sequor ? Salices, humilesque genistae, 

 Aut illae pecori frondem, aut pastoribus umbram 

 Sufficiunt, sepemque satis & pabula melli. 



Gcorg. 2. 



