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129. How to remove trees. 



wolde make no dyche in sommertyme, whan the water is 

 dryed vp, that a man may se all the holowe and lowe places, 

 ^e^grid^'^ 28 than to cary grauel, and fyl it vp as hygh as the other 

 knolles be ; than wold it not bolne ne swell, nor be no 

 quycke-sande, and euery maw may go beside the hie-way 

 with theyr cariage at theyr pleasure. And this me semeth 



32 is lesse coste, and lenger wyll last with a lyttell mendynge 

 whan nede requyreth. Therfore me thynketh, yf this 

 were well loked vpon, it shuld be bothe good and 

 necessarye for that purpose : for soo haue I seen done in 



36 other places, where as I haue ben, &c. 



only. 



[Fol. 563.] 



This 



should be 

 looked to, 



How to 



remove and 

 set trees. 



Cut off some 

 of the 

 boughs. 



[Fol. 51 ; So 

 ■misnumber- 

 ed all the 

 ■way to the 

 end. We 

 may call it 

 5i*.] 



129. ^ To remoue and set trees. 



If thou wylte remoue and sette trees, get as manye 

 rotes with them as thou canste, and breake them not, nor 

 bryse theym, by thy wyll. And if there be any rote 



4 broken and sore brused, cut it of harde by, there as it is 

 brused, with a sharpe hatchet, elles that roote wyll dye. 

 And if it be asshe, elme, or oke, cut of all the bowes 

 cleane, and saue the toppe hole. For if thou make hym 

 8 ryche of bowes, thou makeste hym poore of thryfte, for 

 two causes. The bowes causeth theym to shake with 

 wynde, and to leuse the rotes. Also he can-not be 

 soo cleane gete, but some of the rotes muste nedes be cut, 



12 and than there wyll not come soo moche sappe and 

 moystenes to the bowes, as there dyd before. And if 

 the tree be very longe, cut of the top, two or thre 

 yardes. And if it be an apple-tree, or peare-tree, or 



16 suche other as beareth fruyte, than cut away all the 

 water-bowes, and the small bowes, that the pryncipall 

 bowes may haue the more sap. And if ye make a 

 marke, which syde of the tree standeth towarde the 



20 Sonne, that he may be set so agayne, it is soo moche 

 the better. 



