456 The Gardener's New Director. 



Manna Afli Tree, are equally hardy with the common 

 Afh, and will grow very well in this country, provided 

 they have a little flielter when they are young. 



T 



The Plane. 



'HISj in England', goes by the name of the Sica- 



more, though I cannot think it the fame that of 



old went under that name. But leaving this to be dif- 

 cufled by botanifts, I proceed to its culture, which is 

 much the fame with that of the Afh tree. The keys or 

 feeds of it muft be fown about the end of autumn ; for 

 if they are kept till the fpring, they feldom or never 

 vegetate. When the feeds come up, and are too thick, 

 you fhould draw out part of them, and thin your feed 

 beds, which will make what: remains grow the better. 

 From the feed beds you may tranfplant them into the 

 nurfery, giving them plenty of room; and from thence, 

 three years after, you may tranfplant them into the pla- 

 ces where they are to remain. They are not planted 

 out in woods, as moll other trees, but they are excellent 

 to be planted for defence of large plantations, or large 

 nurferies, and gentlemens feats, for which ufe I think 

 they have been the favourite trees of our anceflors. It 

 differs in nothing from the Afh, but that it comes up 

 the firft year after the feeds are fown, if they are put in- 

 to the ground early in the autumn, or whenever its feeds 

 are ripe. This tree is far fuperior to the Beech^ for all 

 the ufes of the turner, particularly for diflies, trenchers, 

 and bowls; and when it abounds with knots, as it fre- 

 quently does, it is ufed by the joiners for inlaying. I 

 have alfo feen rooms lined with It ; the trees indeed were 

 very large, and had no knots in them ; and when it was 

 varnifhed had a very elegant appearance. When it is 

 ufed in this way, both fides of the panelling ought to be 

 varnifhed, becaufe it is very fufceptible of being eaten 

 with worms. 



This tree being near a-kin to the Maple, I fhall here 

 likewife treat of it ; but before I begin, I fhall juft enu- 

 merate the different kinds of Plane, of which there are 



three 



