.SECT. XIX. LIST OP TREES, &C. 317 



flourish in any soil ; but the broad leaved is reckon* 

 ed the best timber, and the small leaved the most 

 ornamental ; it should have a good soil. The wych 

 is easily raised from seed, (sown directly after it is 

 ripe) but the other sorts are propagated from suckers 1 , 

 or layers, or graffing on the wych. In order to ob- 

 tain suckers, and shoots for layers, stools are to be 

 formed by cutting down some young trees, almost 

 close to the ground. Trees from layers are better 

 than, from suckers. Observe, that whatever is to be 

 propagated by layers, or suckers, making stools is 

 the way to procure them. 



Hornbeam, the common sort will grow very large 

 in some soils, but the Virginictn (flowering yellow) 

 will hardly reach thirty feet, and the hop not above 

 twenty. ' The hornbeam feathers down lower, and 

 thicker than any other tree, and the property of 

 holding its decayed leaves on all winter, adapts the 

 common sort for a screen from winds. See page 

 117. 



Nat tree, as timber, will be best propagated from 

 nuts, either to remain where sown, or planted out 

 while young, keeping the stems trimmed up, free of 

 shoots, to about five or six feet, (according to 

 strength) and then to form a head, topping the lead* 

 ing shoots for the purpose, which will occasion se- 

 veral branches to proceed from the upper eyes; and 

 this is the way to form all sorts of trees to good 

 heads. 



Oak, the English produces the best wood, but the 

 American sorts are the fastest growers, though they 

 do not attain to the size of the English. A cool 

 strong soil produces the handsomest trees, and 

 toughest timber. Oaks should not be above three 

 or lour years old before they are planted, for the 

 older they are, the more check they receive, and it 

 is a tree that does not transplant well. Hence all 



