Sea • 5 . of Foreft Trees. 223 



dugatfirft, in order to clear away the Weeds, ^ 

 which would otherwife choak the young Sets, 

 tho' not eafily ^ and in the Digging fliould 

 be laid in Beds three or four Foot wide, 

 for the better drawing off all Superfluities of 

 Water in the Channels betwixt them. 



— - Ktc JliTpes cbruit arvo 

 Quadnfidafque fudes^ & acuto robore Vallos. •, 



Virg. Geo, 2. 



Some cover rooted Stalks in deeper Mould ; 

 Some cover Stakes, and (wondrous to behold !) 

 Their ftiarpen'd ends in Earth their Footing 

 And the dry Poles produce a living Place.[place, 



Dryden. 



Rudius^ the Author of the Dauphin's E-^/V.peiph. 

 dition, divides this into two Methods, as does Edition, 

 alfo Mr. Dryden, which I might follow not- 

 withftanding I have fome Reafons to the con- 

 trary ^ however, this is not a very material 

 Method, and fo 1 Ihall let it flip, after hav-^ 

 ing obferv'd, that by them it relates chiefly ^j^^^^^^,^^ 

 to Willow and Sallow Stakes and Poles, which Rarfing 

 were mentioned in the lafl: Article. Willows. 



I have run over thefe two Seftions with 

 all the Brevity imaginable, referving both 

 Pen and Paper for the next, which is Lay- 

 ing 5 I therefore advife my Reader to ufe this 

 en pa[fent, as a Method I have inferted rather 

 by way of Explanation to this Great Author, 

 than of any real Ufe to this prefent Purpofe. 



Sect. 



