2 2 DireSlions for Raifwg Chap. 7. 



uhen 1 come to fpeak of Arcuation, or raif- 

 ing PJants by Bowing or Bending them into 

 the Ground, which we call Laying. 



Thefe Trees fend forth abundance of Spawn 

 at the Root in all uncultivated Places, Mea- 

 dows, &c. which, if one would preferve, 

 ought to be hedgd round, that the Cattle 

 do not crop them. 



Some fmall time before Michaehnas they 

 may be taken up and planted in Rows in 

 the Nurfery, at the Diftance which (hallbe 

 Ipoken of by and by. 



But I cann't but obferve on this Head, in 

 order to cut it off the Ihorter, that all thefe 

 are much better rais'd by Laying 5 which 

 I therefore referr to SeBion VI. where that 

 Matter is fully and plainly handled. 



But before I quit it, let me fpeak fome- 

 thing of what Salmafius fays concerning the 

 Raifing of Elms from Chips ^ which I have 

 always efteem*d a fabulous Story, 'till, upon 

 buying a great many in Oxfordjlnre for the 

 Plantations at Bknhe'm^ it was confirm'd in 

 feveral Places, efpecially at a Place near Sir 

 Robert Jenkinfon\ where there was a very 

 fine Nurfery of Elms about five or fix Inches 

 Diameter ^ the Perfon that own'd them af- 

 furing me, that within Thirty Years before 

 there was not one Elm, or any thing like it 

 near them 3 but that upon hewing a great 

 many Elm Trees for the Building a Lathe 

 or Barn, they perceiv'd them the next Year 

 rafpringup 5 and having preferv'd them froni 

 ...I the 



