4^6 The Gardener's New Director. 



The Abele Tree 



IS only propagated from the fuckers, of wliich you 

 may have in great numbers, by cutting down fome 

 of the trees, working the ground about them, and pre- 

 ferving them from cattle. This tree together with the 

 Afpin or Quaking Afp, are produced in the fame man- 

 ner. I am lurprifed how a late author fpeaks fo dimi- 

 nutively of the Quaking Afp. I faw within thefe ten 

 years a large plantation of thefe trees near a gentleman's 

 feat in the bifhoprick of Durham^ mofl: of them near 

 forty feet high, without a fide branch, which he efteem- 

 ed very much, and fold for a great price, to the mill- 

 wrights and carpenters about the country. 



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Willows. 



OF which there are thirty forts known to the balket- 

 makers. They are all propagated by cuttings, 

 planted in a moift foil. But there is one particular kind, 

 which excells the whole, called the Huntingdon l/VilloiVy 

 "which comes very foon to be a large tree. Thefe are 

 more properly called Sallows; they grow in rich ground, 

 and, although it is not wet, they will profper well. 



Willows are propagated by fhort cuttings, but Sal- 

 lows from flakes or truncheons, feven feet long, which, 

 when thruft into the ground in October or February, will 

 thrive exceedingly well. 



I fliall next treat of Evergreen Trees, which are fit 

 to be planted out into woods. 



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