a 1 2 D ire £i ions for JRjtiJlng Chap. 7. 



Hie planitiei tenero abjcendens de cor pore 

 Vepofuit fulcis. [^Matrufn 



Virg. 



Some cut the Shoots, and plant in furrow'd 

 Ground. T>ryden. 



Ratfini by This plainly belongs to what we call Slip- 

 c^unrng or pij^g or Cutting the Shoots off at a Knot, and 

 fo planting them in the Ground to root : The 

 Plants rais'd by this means are the 

 Sallow in VVoods, and in other Low Places 

 Willow, Sec. The Sallow is a great Furni- 

 ture in our Common Coppices ^ and the Wil-' 

 low, of which the Dutch is the beft, is for 

 Wet Grounds, and for the Basket- maker's Ufe* 

 We commonly plant fliort Truncheons, about 

 two or three Foot long for Dwarfs in Iflands 

 (let the Truncheon be planted a Foot deep in 

 the Ground, and as my Lord Bacon advifes, 

 flopewife,) but if for Standards, next the 

 Water-fide 5 or to make Walks or Willows, 

 they ought to be 9 or 10 Foot long at leaft, 

 fometimes 12 or 13 Foot. There be many 

 others that might be brought under this Head, 

 but being much better rais'd by the fourth 

 Method, I {hall leave them to that. Either 

 the Spring or Fall, or the Middle of the 

 Winter will do for thefe 3 and they are fo 

 well known to every Country Hedger, that 

 I fliall fay no more upon this Head, but only 

 advife^that the Ground in the Iflands ihould be 



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