131. Of trees set without roots. 83 



130. \ Trees to be set without rotes and grows. 

 There be trees wil be set without rotes, and growe Some trees 



can be set 



well, and sprynge rotes of them-selfe. And those be without 



roots. 



dyuerse apple-trees, that haue knottes in the bowes, as 

 4 casses, or wydes, and suche other, that wyll growe on 



slauynges, and lykewyse popeler and wethy : and they Poplar and 



withy. 



must be cut cleane besyde the tree, that they growe on, 

 and the toppe cut cleane of .viii. or .x. fote of lengthe, 

 8 and all the bowes betwene, and to be set a fote depe or 

 in the erthe, in good grounde. And 3'e shall vnder- 

 stande, that there be foure maner of wethyes, that is Four 



withies, viz. 



to say, white wethye, blacke wethy, reed wethy, and Jf*"'*^' _, 



Dl^CKy r6<li 



1 2 osyerde wethy. Whyte wethye wyll growe vppon drye ^^ os'^r. 

 grounde, yf it be sette in the begynnyge of wynter, and 

 wyll not growe in marsshe grounde ; blacke wethy wyll [Foi. si»*.] 

 growe better on marshe grounde, and redde wethy in 



1 6 lyke maner : and osyerde wethy wyll growe beste in water Os'«« ^" 

 and moyste grounde. And they be trees that wyll soone ''*^^'^- 

 be nour}'sshed, and they wyll beare moche woodde, and 

 they wolde be cropped euery .vii. or .viii. yere or els they Crop them 



1 1 J i_ 1 , , . every seven 



20 wyll dye ; but they maye not be cropped in sappe-tyme, years, 

 nor no tree els. And in many places, bothe the lordes, 

 freeholders, and tenauntes at wyll, sette suche wethyes, and 

 popelers, in marsshe grounde, to nourysshe wodde, &c. 



131. \ To fell wodde for housholde, or to sell. 



If thou haue any woddes to felle, for thy householde Fell under- 

 to brenne, or to sell, than fell the vnder- wodde fyrste in winter? let 

 wynter, that thy cattell or beastes maye eate and brouse browzeonit. 



4 the toppes, and to fell noo more on a daye but as moche 

 as the beastes wyll eate the same daye, or on the morowe 

 after. And as soone as it is well eaten or broused, 

 thanne kydde it, and set them on the endes, and that Make it up 



8 wyll saue the bandes from rottynge, and they shall be '°'°^*^°'*- 



