Seft. 4» of Foreft Trees. % i ^ 



Sect. IV. 



Of the Raifeng Trees from the Suckers^ 

 or rather the Sfavpn or Exuberance of 

 the Roots, 



Pullulat ab Radicealii denfiiTuna Syiva, 

 lit Cerafis, ulmifque : etiam P^rnaffe Laurus, 

 Parva fub ingenti, Matris fefubjecit Umbra. 



Vir^. Georg. 2. 



"' '''*"'. 

 Some from the Roots a rifing Wood difclofe 5 



Thus Elms, and thus thefavage Cherry grows : 



Thu^ the green Bays^that binds the Poet's Brows^ 



Shoots ^ and is pelterd by the Mothers Boughs. 



Dry den. 



TO pafs by the Cerafiis, which is ourneKindn. 

 common Laurel, and the Laurus Par- 

 Tiaffia of Virgily which may be fuppos'd to 

 be no other than our common Bay, I find 

 four or five Kinds of Foreft Trees reducible to 

 this Clafs, ( VIZ. ) 



XJlmus^ the Elm, of which we have three 

 principal forts, the EngliJI)^ Dutch, and Witch: 

 The former is fubdivided. There are other 

 Kinds of lels moment, which I purpofely 

 pafs oven 



Pofulus, the Poplar, of three Kinds : A- 

 inongft which we may reckon the Abeal^ with 

 Others which I ihall more largely iniift on 



when 



