26S Dir^Bt ions for Kaifing- Chap. 8.' 



is fown and hartowed in, theS (having be- 

 ^re-hand nia*de'a good TreparationJ fow 

 feme Mould and Dung, well rotted and blend- ' 

 ed together, over it at leaft ^ of an ]nch 

 thick, which will be a gt^eat Help to th^' 

 Ground, and tp; 'the Seed likewife : Butf^ if 

 the Ground bid'Cold and Heavy, then fov(^' 

 fome flack*d iLime over it once a Week, fot[ 

 i^\^ will not only; kill all the Slugs and Vei:^ 

 ifcin, • but will alfo improve th6 Ground, dnd' 

 impregnate the Seed : I do not advife to 

 '';^lidve it fown thick, but often 3 and it ihay 

 be depended on, that the Rain and Air will 

 foon ftrip it of its fiery Quality in fuch" i 

 manner, as that it \vill do no Hurt to the 

 Seied, but, on the contrai-y, will havef the 

 defired Effeft, the Impregnation of the Seed,' 

 and the Deftruftion of all the Slugs and other 

 v.- Vermin. ';'''' . l^! 



By this means you have laid "a Foundatiw 

 for the Raifing all forts of Trees that come 

 from Seeds. But how you are to furnifti this 

 Evelyn. VVood with the reft, neither the good Ef quire, 

 nor any Body elfe, has, that I know of, ad- 

 x^is'd, at leaft in fuch a manner, as that the 

 World may be profited by it. ^^^ "'' 

 ^ordl^^ To fupply this Defed then^l 'advife. That 

 ^X; J"'^'^ Avhofoever is the Planter or Sower of this, 

 ought to be ftock'd with fome Thoufands of 

 Plants of thofe forts of Woods that are Rais'd 

 by Arcuation or Laying, as alfo, ^hich it 

 it very eafe for any one to -be, with great 

 Quantities of Sets, or ^Trunc*heons of Sal- 

 lows, 



